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Fat Buddha, skinny Buddha
by greggorious » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:16 pm
The two most iconic figures of Buddha tend to be the fat laughing Buddha, and the skinny, deep in meditation one. I'm guessing the latter is the more probable, but where did the fat laughing one come from? Is that just a westernised depiction?
"The original heart/mind shines like pure, clear water with the sweetest taste. But if the heart is pure, is our practice over? No, we must not cling even to this purity. We must go beyond all duality, all concepts, all bad, all good, all pure, all impure. We must go beyond self and nonself, beyond birth and death. When we see with the eye of wisdom, we know that the true Buddha is timeless, unborn, unrelated to any body, any history, any image. Buddha is the ground of all being, the realization of the truth of the unmoving mind.” Ajahn Chah
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Re: Fat Buddha, skinny Buddha
by daverupa » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:18 pm
Pu-tai, something of a Chinese Santa.
- "There is, headman, dhammasamādhi. If you were to obtain cittasamādhi in that, you might abandon this state of perplexity. And what, headman, is dhammasamādhi?
[kammapatha & brahmavihara, & a method of arousing gladness]"
- "Others will misapprehend according to their individual views, hold on to them tenaciously and not easily discard them; we shall not misapprehend according to individual views nor hold on to them tenaciously, but shall discard them with ease — thus effacement can be done."
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Re: Fat Buddha, skinny Buddha
by David N. Snyder » Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:21 pm
Spelled different ways, including Hotei
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