Saturday, October 13, 2012

Attavada



Attavada means the view that everything belong to one big self, this big self then being called as God/cosmos/mind, depend on the religion system.
For a buddhist, to agree with this view means to hold his own progress in his way toward liberation.
Buddha said that world and everything that happened in it, happened because five laws, and not because the central power like the God.
They are:

1. The law of Physical Inorganic (Utu Niyama)
- Seasonal phenomena of winds and rains,
- the unerring order of seasons.
- characteristic seasonal changes and events.
- causes of winds and rains, nature of heat, etc.

2. The Law of Germs and Seeds or Physical Organic (Bija Niyama)
- Rice produced from seed,
- sugary taste from sugar-cane or honey,
- peculiar characteristics of certain fruits.
- The scientific theory of cells and genes and the similarity of twins may be ascribed to this order.

3. The law of Act and Result (Kamma Niyama)
- Desirable and undesirable acts produce corresponding good and bad results.

4. The Law of the way (Dhamma Niyama)
- The natural phenomena occurring at the birth of a Bodhisatta in his last birth. Gravitation and other similar laws of nature, the reason for being good, etc. may be included in this group.

5. The Law of The Thoughts Movement (Citta Niyama)
- Processes of consciousness,
- constituents of consciousness,
- power of mind, including telepathy,
- telesthesia,
- retro-cognition,
- premonition,
- clairvoyance,
- clair-audience,
- thought-reading,
- such other psychic phenomena, which are inexplicable to modern science.

Without coordination of these five laws, the most powerful being of world like God cannot do anything. And these five laws were not made by God, since God also being influenced and happened because of them. For example, he cannot create a stone that he himself cannot lift it, or a man that have 5 eyes and still call it a human. Because everything determined by coordination of 5 laws mentioned above.

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