What Is American Buddhism?
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- A short clip of David being interviewed for "The United States of Enlightenment", a documentary film about Western Buddhism in America.
David Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
He writes a popular blog about Buddhism and meditation on The Huffington Post and leads yoga and meditation workshops worldwide.
David is also a well known composer, producer and guitarist, and a 4 time Emmy winner and Grammy nominee.
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Thank teacher. (Buddha, Dhamma,Sanga is good teachers.)Amazing.
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Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh…..Q & A on Western Buddhism
...On presenting Buddhism to the West and vice versa. When asked, "What do you think are the best ways to present Buddhism to the Western Students?," Thich Nhat Hanh replied:
"I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world. As far as religion is concerned, the West already has plenty of belief in a supernatural being. It's not by the law of faith that you should enter the spiritual territory of the West, because the West has plenty of this."This is a particularly revealing quote about Buddhism, not just because it addresses the West's general sense about Buddhism being 'just another religion,' but in the unique way Buddhism is perceived by its practitioners and how it works as a methodology to...... (a) Assist in the study of human psychology and...........( b) Help relieve and remedy common psychological and emotional problems.
--When asked how Western thought can contribute to Buddhism, Nhat Hanh answered, "democracy and science." He writes,"Personally, learning about science has helped me to understand Buddhism more deeply. I agree with Einstein that if there is a religion that can go along with science, it is Buddhism. That is because Buddhism has the spirit of nonattachment to rules. You may have a view that you consider to be the truth, but if you cling to it, then that is the end of your free inquiring. You have to be aware that with the practice of looking deeply, you may see things more clearly. That is why you should not be so dogmatic about what you have found; you have to be ready to release your view in order to get a higher insight. That is very exciting.
"In the sutra given to the young people of the Kalama tribe, the Kalama sutra, the Buddha said, “Don’t just believe in something because it has been repeated by many people. Don’t just believe in something because it has been uttered by a famous teacher. Don’t just believe in something even if it is found in holy scripture.” You have to look at it, you have to try it and put it into the practice, and if it works, if it can help you transform your suffering and bring you peace and liberty, you can believe it in a very scientific way. So I think Buddhists should not be afraid of science. Science can help Buddhism to discover more deeply the teaching of the Buddha. For example, the Avatamsaka Sutra says that the one is made of the many and the many can be found in the one. This is something that can be proven by science. Out of a cell they can duplicate a whole body. In one cell, the whole genetic heritage can be found and you can make a replica of the whole body. In the one you see the many. These kinds of things help us to understand the teaching of Buddha more deeply. So there is no reason why Buddhists have to be afraid of science, especially when Buddhists have the capacity to release their view in order to get a higher view. And in Buddhism, the highest view is no view at all. No view at all! You say that permanence is the wrong view. So you use the view of impermanence to correct the view of permanence. But you are not stuck to the view of impermanence. When you have realized the truth, you abandon not only the view of permanence, but you also abandon the view of impermanence. It’s like when you strike a match: the fire that is produced by the match will consume the match. When you practice looking deeply and you find the insight of impermanence, then the insight of permanence will burn away that notion of impermanence.That is what is very wonderful about the teaching of nonattachment to view. Non-self can be a view, impermanence might be a view, and if you are caught in a view, you are not really free. The ultimate has no view. That is why nirvana is the extinction of all views, because views can bring unhappiness-even the views of nirvana, impermanence, and no-self-if we fight each other over these views.
Melvin McLeod: I very much like the way you describe what other Buddhist traditions call relative and absolute truth. You describe these as the historical and ultimate dimensions. Much of your teaching focuses on the relative or historical dimension, or on the principle of interdependence, which you call interbeing. Is that a complete or final description of reality, or is there a truth beyond the insight that nothing exists independently and all things are interrelated?
Thich Nhat Hanh: There are two approaches in Buddhism: the phenomenal approach and the true nature approach. In the school of Madhyamaka, in the school of Zen, they help you to strike directly into your true nature. In the school of abhidharma, mind-only, they help you to see the phenomena, and if you touch the phenomena deeper and deeper, you touch the ultimate. The ultimate is not something separated from the phenomena. If you touch the ultimate, you touch also the phenomena. And if you touch deeply the phenomena, you touch also the ultimate. It is like a wave. You can see the beginning and the end of a wave. Coming up, it goes down. The wave can be smaller or bigger, or higher or lower. But a wave is at the same time the water. A wave can live her life as a wave, of course, but it is possible for a wave to live the life of a wave and the life of water at the same time. If she can bend down and touch the water in her, she loses all her fear. Beginning, ending, coming up, going down-these don’t make her afraid anymore, because she realizes she’s water. So there are two dimensions in the wave. The historical dimension is coming up and going down. But in the ultimate dimension of water, there is no up, no down, no being, no nonbeing. The two dimensions are together and when you touch one dimension deeply enough, you touch the other dimension. There’s no separation at all between the two dimensions. Everything is skillful means in order to help you touch the ultimate.....
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David,I did really like ur speach..I ll listen also other videos of U. Om mani badme hung!
Pure Land Buddhism starts with monotheistic faith and ends with Zen state of mind, or placid mind.
I believe Namu Amida Butsu will connect monotheism and universalism.
For awesome American Zen we have Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery and Shoryu Bradley :)
Pure Buddhism (theravada) in sri lanka
American Buddhism is Mc Donlad, Cola, Evangelists & Buddhism
Go to Thailand. It is a place where you may still find bhudhism as it is true to the teaching by Bhudha, not by many add-ons.
"American Buddhism" is defined at 0:32, which is not really Buddhism but only a path to something much more relevant, which is why the speaker at 3:09 is mistaken again. There is certainly a need to qualify things further.
What os your explanation
hi david nichtern. i am sanyog maharjan from Nepal , birth place of Siddhartha Gautam Buddha, i had completed my all master degree paper in Buddhist studies except thesis. Thus, i would like to write thesis on American Buddhism. Now i am in the USA. Can you help me?
hi , its been 4 years to your comment , i hope you had finished ur study , i would like to learn your work and read thesis . can you please provide . Thanks
Thug Rose has the same spirit.
This guy does not know what he is talking about! To be a genuine Buddha you must first be a Buddhist!! No abrahamist can ever be a Buddha! It is a concept that belongs exclusively to the Dharmic religions
The reality is that East Asians - Japanese, Chinese, Korean Vietnamese etc eat more kinds of meat than Tibetans. Tibetan though not vegetarian but are very discriminatory. They will eat only a few kinds of meats such as Mutton, beef but not seafood. Even eating pork is taboo though later Chinese occupation has introduced pork and other meats.
There is only one buddism . That is Nepalese buddism because buddha was crown prince of Nepal.
Rakchyaka Shrestha The Buddha taught a total of three teachings which convey the totality of his vast wisdom for modern era.