Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Impermanence is impermanent?

I will try to explain in English as much as I can for this question...
Impermanence is permanent! My explanation starts from here.......


** If we classify all the teachings or preachings of Buddha, we will get three kinds of categories.
* 1) "Wi Nee" => Buddha taught how to stay or behave properly or correctly to his monks.
* 2) "Tot Tan" => Buddha used his previous lives(Infinity)' experiences to explain all beings to be able to understand more in his preachings such as "Cause and Effect." In other words, "Tot Tan" is all about his lives.
** So, we can say that both "Wi Nee" and "Tot Tan" are related to Buddhism because one is all about Buddha's rules for monks how to stay or behave correctly; another is all about Buddha's lives.

^^ Different from the above two kinds of preachings, the rest one is called "A Bi` Dhamma." Dhamma is the preaching of Buddha. "A Bi`" means "better than." Someone would ask "better than what?" Answer is "better than the first(above) two kinds of Dhamma(preachings). The reason for "A Bi` Dhamma" to be the best Dhamma is that this is not related to Buddhism and not even related to Buddha. This Dhamma is always there whether or not Buddha exists! That means the real truth!!!

^^ However, we can know this kind of Dhamma (A Bi` Dhamma) only from Buddha.

---------------------------------This is the background information to answer the question...


***In "A Bi` Dhamma," Buddha said that there are FOUR Real Truths; nothing else!
Those FOUR Real Truths are -
* 1) Sate (Mind)
* 2) Say Ta Tate (Something that leads or controls Mind)
* 3) Youte (Body)
* 4) Nirvana (End of Body and Mind; nothing left!)
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Since there are only FOUR Real Truths, the rest of everything is just fake. For example(very little basic example), names don't really exist except Body and Mind. Names are just used to differentiate from one to another. If there are no names on anything, we will be very confused; however, they are not really existing! Let's say... I can even change my original name (AAA) to a new name (BBB). I'm just a combination of "Body and Mind" whether my name is (AAA) or (BBB) or anything else. Like this very tiny and basic example, everything on the rest of the universe can be changable; in other words, everything is impermanent. The reason why "everything is impermanent" is that nothing is true except the FOUR Real Truths (Mind, Something controlling Mind, Body and Nirvana) mentioned above.


* As long as we are having those false views without knowing FOUR Real Truths, we will have to suffer continuously. In other words, we will have to suffer as long as we are a combination of "Body and Mind."


^^ In brief, "Theravada" Buddhism practices the exact way of Buddha's teachings in order to achieve the termination of "Body and Mind" which is called "Nirvana," which is a Real Truth!!!

Hope my answer helps a little bit! :)

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