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  • JinanandaThe Middle WayThe Story of Buddhism The life of the Buddha is the story of a man. Siddartha wasa human being like you or I. He was not, of course, an ordinary human being;and in this too he was like you or I. He was as distinct and separate from usas we are from each other. The extra difference in a Buddha, in anyone whoattains what the Buddha attains, is that he no longer experiences his ownessential difference, his own separateness. The sense of our separation from one another, of beingtrapped in our own separate universes, is the very taste of human existence,and it is what Siddartha tasted. We know this is our world because we have alllooked beyond it, and some of us have even stepped out of it for a dizzying,dazzling moment. But the Buddha walked out of that separate universe and neverreturned. What he — and those who followed him — tasted was the taste offreedom. Since the 1960s there has been an unprecedented explosion ofinterest in Buddhism in the west. It is not just that a lot of people actuallypractice Buddhism. There have always been plenty of those, at least up tillrecently in East Asia. But in the west a lot of people simply like the idea ofBuddhism. Some people feel able to call themselves Buddhists without practicing it or indeed knowing anything about it at all.They have just absorbed something of the message of Buddhism from looking at asimple image of a meditating Buddha. It represents an ideal that they respondto intuitively. Others actually practice Buddhism without really liking theidea of calling themselves Buddhists. There is also a flourishing academicindustry centered on Buddhism, which has produced by far the richest and most profound body of religious literature in the world. The special place that Buddhism holds within world religionsis that it is essentially non-threatening. This is firstly because according toBuddhism the use of force, even when it is just manipulation, is a reflectionof a mistaken view of the way things are and therefore needs tobe avoided. Secondly it is because the Buddhist view is never one thatseparates the Buddhist from others. Again, this is regarded as simply areflection of the nature of things. Buddhism is one of the most influential belief systems oftoday, and also one of the oldest. What makes it at once so mysterious and soapproachable is that it is not fixed in any specific formulation. It is not inits essence really a belief system as such at all. This gives it a proteanability to explain itself from within the assumptions of any culture withinwhich it finds itself. The reason it is not tied to any external forms ofexpression whatsoever, not even to a form of belief system, is what it is allabout. When one examines Buddhism one sees first of all smiling monksin yellow or maroon robes; one also sees images of unearthlyrefinement and beauty, of wild sexual abandon, and of nightmare horror. Oneperhaps smells incense and hears deep-throated chanting. One may even findoneself thinking profound philosophical thoughts. One may go on adding elementsof these kinds as much as one likes — one may think of meditation or karma —but though all these things may be of concern to Buddhists, they do notdescribe it at all. It is significant that there is no Buddhist creed of anykind. Some people may say Buddhism is basically about impermanence or the factthat actions have consequences or that it is about letting go, or theinterpenetration of all things. But no agreement can be reached, becauseBuddhism is specifically about seeing through the notion of a consensus worldout there. And as soon as someone agrees with that statement then the point hasbeen missed. Buddhism is not actually about anything at all. It is always adirect pointing to the true nature of things, now. To those who asked where do we come from, the Buddha wouldgive the example of a man with an arrow in his eye. ‘Would that man’, theBuddha replied, say ‘“Before you take the arrow out of my eye, could you tellme who made it?”’ There are three aspects of the Buddhist faith, three mostprecious things that the Buddhist places at the center of their life. These areknown as the three Jewels or Refuges: the Buddha jewel, representing the idealof Awakening or Enlightenment to which all Buddhists aspire; the Dharma jewel,which represents the Buddhist teachings by which that ideal is realized inone’s individual life; and the Sangha Jewel, standing for the community ofBuddhists, through which those teachings are communicated and practiced. It is perhaps no coincidence that Buddhism is establishingitself so strongly in the west at a period when science and technology are infirm control of the way the world works. Notes by Jinananda Acknowledgements The account of the Buddhist faith in these tapes has beenput together from many sources. Translations from original texts have beensimplified and often abbreviated. If the text of these tapes have any virtue,it comes from those sources, and from my teacher, the Venerable Sangharakshita;its faults are all my own. About the Author Jinananda, also known as Duncan Steen, was born in 1952 inBedford andbrought up in Mauritius, Scotland and Bedford, receiving aneducation atBedford School. He has worked as an antiquarian bookseller,and a gardener.He was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in 1986, andsince 1990 has worked as an editor for his teacher, the VenerableSangharakshita. Heteaches meditation and Buddhism at the West London BuddhistCentre. About the Readers David Timson has worked as an actor for nearly thirty yearsin theater (Wild Honey, Hamlet, The Man of Mode, The Seagull), television(Nelson’s Column, Swallows and Amazons) and film (The Russia House), but mostconsistently for BBC Radio. He won the BBC Student Prize in 1971 and has sincemade over 1,000 broadcasts, ranging from the title role in Nicholas Nickleby tothat past institution Listen With Mother. He has frequently read serials andshort stories for Woman’s Hour and Radio 4 and is a popular reader on NaxosAudioBooks. Timson is the author of Naxos AudioBooks’ audio-original, TheHistory of Theatre. Anton Lesser has played many of the principal Shakespeareanroles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Petruchio, Romeo and RichardIII. His other theater credits include Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, WildOats and Art. Appearances in major television drama productions include TheCherry Orchard, The Mill on the Floss and The Politician’s Wife. As poet, playwright and actor, Heathcote Williams has made asignificant contribution to many fields. He is best known for his extendedpoems on environmental subjects, Whale Nation (1988); Falling for a Dolphin(1988); Sacred Elephant (1989) and Autogeddon (1991). But his plays have alsowon acclaim, notably AC/DC produced at London’s Royal Court, and Hancock’s LastHalf Hour. As an actor he has been equally versatile — among his most memorableroles was Prospero in Derek Jarman’s film of The Tempest.
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：23340  The Middle Way - The Story of Buddhism

      • The Buddha: The Birth Of Buddha

      • The Buddha: The Training Of Siddartha Gautama

      • The Buddha: The Legend Of the Four Sights

      • The Buddha: The Decision And The Departure

      • The Buddha: Siddartha's First Teacher - Alara Kalama And Udraka Ramaputra

      • The Buddha: Austerities

      • The Buddha: A Declaration Of Intent

      • The Buddha: The Night Of The Enlightenment

      • The Buddha: The Implications Of His Awakening

      • The Buddha: To Varanasi To Turn the Wheel Of the Dharma

      • The Buddha: Forty-Five Years Of Teaching

      • The Buddha: The Tales Of Kisa Gotami, Angulimala And Devadatta

      • The Buddha: Death And The Parinirvana

      • The Buddha: The Final Moments: 'Impermanent Are All Compounded Things. With Mindfulness, Strive on.'

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：23340  The Middle Way - The Story of Buddhism

      • The Dharma: The Teaching Of the Budda

      • The Dharma: Thus Have I Heard

      • The Dharma: A Direct Experience

      • The Dharma: Pratitya Samutpada - Dependent Origination - The Core Teaching Of The Buddha

      • The Dharma: Conditionality - A Process Without Beginning Or End

      • The Dharma: The Middle Way

      • The Dharma: The Four Noble Truths

      • The Dharma: The First Noble Truth - Suffering.

      • The Dharma: The Second Noble Truth - The Origin Of Suffering Is Craving.

      • The Dharma: The Wheel Of Life - A Mirror Of Craving And Ignorance

      • The Dharma: At The Centre - A Cock, A Pig And A Snake

      • The Dharma: The Rise And Fall - Karma And Rebirth

      • The Dharma: The Six Realms Of Existence;

      • The Dharma: The Outer Rim Of The Wheel.

      • The Dharma: The Third Noble Truth - The Cessation Of Suffering - The End Of Craving

      • The Dharma: The Forth Noble Truth - The Noble Eight - Fold Path

      • The Dharma: The Eight Limbs Of The Noble Eight-Fold Path

      • The Dharma: Morality Or Ethics.

      • The Dharma: Meditation

      • The Dharma: Wisdom

      • The Dharma: The Growth Of The Dharma After The Budda

      • CD03
      • 作品编号：23340  The Middle Way - The Story of Buddhism

      • The Sangha: The Sangha

      • The Sangha: The Dharma As A Raft - Designed Differently By Different Cultures

      • The Sangha: The Spiritual Friendship Of the Sangha

      • The Sangha: The Vinaya, The Rule Of The Monks

      • The Sangha: The Development Of Schools - The Theravada

      • The Sangha: The Development Of Images Of The Buddha

      • The Sangha: The Growth Of The Mahayana - The Great Vehicle. (I) A Deeper Relevance To Lay People

      • The Sangha: The Growth Of The Mahayana - The Great Vehicle. (II) The Bodhisattva Ideal

      • The Sangha: The Growth Of The Mahayana - The Great Vehicle. (III) Skilful Means - Art

      • The Sangha: Skilful Means - The Sultras: The Written Word:

      • The Sangha: The Perfection Of Wisdom Sutras - The Diamond Sutra

      • The Sangha: The Heart Sutra

      • The Sangha: The Madhyamika School

      • The Sangha: The Yogacara School

      • The Sangha: Worship

      • The Sangha: Tantric Buddhism Or The Vajrayana (Diamond Vehicle)

      • The Sangha: The Tantra In Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions Of The Three Jewels (I) The Budda -

      • The Sangha: The Tantra In Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions Of The Three Jewels (II) The Dharma

      • The Sangha: The Tantra In Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions Of The Three Jewels (III) The Sangha

      • The Sangha: The 11th Century Tibetan yogi And Poet, Milarepa And His Teacher Marpa

      • The Sangha: Buddhism In China And Japan - The Pure Land - Jodo Shinshu and Cha'an Or Zen

      • The Sangha: Buddhism In The West