I am à Buddhist by virtue of being born in a Buddhist country called Bhutan and I find in the teaching of Lord Buddha a source of deep peace, happiness and fulfilment. Buddhist teachings in nutshel are, - All products are impermanent, - All contaminated are miserable, - All phenomena are empty and selfless, - Nirvana is peace.
I am a Hindhu, But I always loved Buddhism, because it is so intense & real & straightforward & uncomplicated. I have read 4 noble truths & 8 noble paths many times so far & conceptually i have understood it, but wanted a tool to practice. I mostly play games in my iPhone & I searched for Buddha related apps & I saw one interesting app called "BuDhamma"? by Lokesh Hanumappa. This app helps you practice 8 noble path in a cool way with reminders, reports, tests & graphic rich practice summary.
So much has changed since then. So much more knowledge of the brain and mystical experience, including the ability to directly alter brain patterns and accomplish quickly what would otherwise take decades to achieve. Amazing! The fruit of the dharma!
It is great Thank you professor. we Are buddhist in Sri Lanka. If the god create this world Then He must take the responsibility What happened to this Word, Lord buddha He is the greatest Person who ever live in the world He is not a creator He is not a savior He was the teacher He showed the Path we are our own masters Who create wars , Bomb ,Air Plane It is human Mind So Human Mind is the Most Suprime God Concept is a myth
Very effective way to the modern world to think of true natural law towards betterment of day to day life. through a portable religion..."Do it your self Religion" Thank you Mr.Lewis Lancaster...you have done a wonderful start towards wonderful portable religion....
One of the best videos I've ever seen on Buddhism. A great talk, and a great communicator. It allowed me to understand many intersting issues. About Buddhism portability: I don't understand why Buddhists need images and monasteries to practice meditation.
Thanks for remarks! For your question I should say, just like why we do need schools and universities for learning? If you listened to the lecture carefully, you might have heard that Monasteries were the place to stay (for monks) which developed as universities! Nalanda university is one of examples. Yes, for practicing meditation, you do not need to go monasteries. Many of us we do not go monasteries. For initial learning of meditation we go to meditation centers. good luck!
I notice, at this posting, there are 644, thumbs up and 18, thumbs down. - I would be interested to know what the 18, individuals who chose thumbs down had to say or what were they thinking - I for one really enjoyed this lecture - this man if nothing else gives credence to ambiguity :-). Right now I am going to go outside and listen to it again -
Thank you Professor for sharing your wide knowledge about Buddhism, It is a wonderful lecture.And your point of sharing the knowledge without any expectation is excellent :)
Very good speech. People are turning because it let people to think and question. I just hope that other religions won't destroy this movement of understanding.
Love the lecture and the lecturer (that is i like the way he lectured). Gosh I wonder if this guy ever studied in Nalanda the ancient Buddhist univesity inIndia in some past life or lifetimes. I like the way he explains Buddhism and its relevance to the world today in a way that is so easy to understand. Thanks so much Prof. Lancaster
In our community we get the relics of all family members no matter where he or she is (relics collected after cremation put in one specific site and preserved) which is considered our family sacred site and observed once every year.
@siamkarl I need to go on one of those if I want to see myself happening in that detail...sounds like you were speed reading yourself. Since you mentioned it, could you see or experience the 3 marks of existence in yourself?
Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE
as for the last comment on zen = more pages on the internet vis church - no it isnot the case - as now church is nearly 1billion plus and zen is only a third 300 million - but yes we understand the point - buddhism is getting digital faster and more of the techies are into it...
I suggest approaching the Buddhist philosophy from an atheistic point of view. I did, and I don't think I'd have it in me to berate others on internet comment boards anymore. Give it a shot.
At 51:33 he says 'a multiverse of ...' Can anyone help me? I do not know what word he used. Not the meaning, the word itself. Was is 'causes', 'cosmoses', what?
@ hebalott: Shamanism is indeed arguably the world's oldest religion, but it's not the world's oldest "portable" religion. Shamanism is not "evangelical" per se, and it is bound by language and geography.
Buddhism was first introduced in Japan by the Korean kingdom of Paekche. However, Japan also maintained cultural ties to China as well as Korea, so many Japanese Buddhist monks went to China in order to study, and so many Buddhist schools in Japan have direct ties to Chinese Buddhism, but the initial introduction of Buddhism to Japan was done by Koreans, not Chinese. =)
:D even me Commenting here is only one element of Your creativity. And this vid also, you already have the potential to know about everything.& you can even think like this; The Prof (& his lecture) also a element(s) made by your own mind to analyze itself. That s why this moment(Now as u read) is so sacred. so U realize it :). great day Myself!
@ kawilik: Einstein never said that, it's an apocryphal statement. Look in his speeches or in anything he wrote, he never said that. I am a Buddhist myself, and it would have been nice if Einstein had said that, but he didn't. So far as relics goes, the Buddha's relics are mentioned in the Mahaparinibbana-Sutta a.k.a. The Buddha's Final Nirvana, in the Digha-nikaya. Check out Rupert Gethin's Sayings of the Buddha, published by Oxford World's Classics.
There is very little in this lecture that is Buddhist teachings, e.g. no self. Everthing else is his creativity. One importnat point to remember, Buddhism does NOT talk about the outside world (multiverses, etc.). According to Buddhism "you" are the universe. When you understand "you", you understand the universe/multiverse.
sad that the lecture starts with an online gaming - worldoftanks ad - and says to everyone violently that killing is easy and free - youtube - you ah - be sensitive to the content before you stick in ads
All of the comments I have read are amusing. Armchair Quarterbacks all of you. What is most important is the sincere practice of the buddhist faith. Its history is important but your personal journey is moreso
there is lot of dogma and theology in buddhism, u are not aware of that....i am not talking of buddhism started by buddha and his teaching....but modern buddhism and in practice...
Your words show you do not understand. You approach Buddhism from a theistic view point. Buddhism is not about the Buddha. If science, if historians were to prove beyond all doubt the Buddha did not exist it would not matter. Buddhism is about the process not the originator.
good lecture but it looks like he seems to forget to mention that buddists didn't invented all this things throgh pfilopsphical and rational thinking and speculation ( like western philisophy ) but through meditation and experience and and not using rational mind and that's core of buddhism - p[ractice to become enlightenent and everything else is less important.
Actually, I never heard or witnessed this lecture at all; I just interacted with neural patterns erupting between my ears, eyes and brain. So how to know if what Lancaster said is true, or if he as a man bis trustworthy, since--according to him--I can have no real knowledge of either? This pseudo-wisdom's only power is that its self-contradictory character makes it hugely popular to the contemporary (especially 'academic') mind.
Igrorant person shouldn't speak on other phenomena. which you don't have enough knowledge. You can say from my undersanding of Buddhism. From my view point you do not have enough knowledge of Buddhism.
