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The Parinirvāṇa Vihāra of Bodhi Nirvana
WA Delegate: None.
Founder: 
The Parinirvāṇa Vihāra of Bodhi Nirvana
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Embassies: Buddha, Zen Buddhism, Tibet, The Himalayas, Taoism, Sufism, Bali, Java, Mecca, Stonehenge, Groland, Devon, Zen, Hippy Haven, Timbuktu, The Maldives, and 47 others.Libcom, Weed, Autonomous Peoples, The Rose Garden, Buddhist Communism, Dubai, Hinduism, Laos, Lhasa, Ecuador, Varanasi, Medina, Aden, Space Jesus, The Zoo, Hippies, South Asia, Buddhist Region of Jambudvipan, The Woods, Cymru, San Francisco, Angkor Wat, Czechia, Dagestan, Philosophy 115, Kashmir, Allah, Sufi, Ego, Psychedelic, Taiwan, Asia, The Embassy, Genesis Defense Project, Animal Liberation Front, Goa, Siam, Sub Pacific, Pink Lotus, The Order of Buddhist and Hindu Nations, Elentia, Plum Village, Ninja, The Bongos United, Regionless, A 1000 Buddha Lands in This World, and East Asia.
Tags: Eco-Friendly, Egalitarian, Featured, Feminist, Independent, LGBT, Multi-Species, Non-English, Religious, and Small.
Buddhism contains 8 nations, the 2,075th most in the world.
Today's World Census Report
The Most Eco-Friendly Governments in Buddhism
The following governments spend the greatest amounts on environmental issues. This may not always be reflected in the quality of that nation's environment.
As a region, Buddhism is ranked 2,041st in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments.
 | Nation | WA Category | Motto | |
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| 1. |  The Followers And Teachings of The Buddha | Democratic Socialists Hell | “Om” | |
| 2. |  The Teachings of Mahayana Buddhism | Democratic Socialists Hell | “The Great Vehicle” | |
| 3. |  The Burusho Buddhist Realm of Xrarbakh | Iron Fist Consumerists Champions of Commerce | “On the Path to the Pure Land” | |
| 4. |  The Peace of Buddhism | Left-Leaning College State Deluded Tax and Spend Hypocrites | “We are here to awake from the dream of our separateness” | |
| 5. |  The Angelheaded Hipsters of Allen Ginsberg | Psychotic Dictatorship Communist Dictatorship | “To Gain Your Own Voice Forget About Having It Heard” | |
| 6. | The Parinirvāṇa Vihāra of Bodhi Nirvana | Left-wing Utopia Drugged-Out Hippies | “Peace comes from within.” | |
| 7. |  The Five Treatises of Maitreya Buddha | Left-wing Utopia Drugged-Out Hippies | “ॐ” | |
| 8. |  The Matriarchy of Guan Yin | Anarchy Lawless Wasteland | “Liberation comes from Within” |
Regional Happenings
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The Grand Duchy of Amaltheia of the region Modorra proposed constructing embassies.
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The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese departed this region for Buddha.
- : The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese arrived from Bulacan.
- : An earthly pure land ceased to exist.
- : An earthly pure land arrived from Lazarus.
- : An earthly pure land ceased to exist.
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The Republic of Roslisea of the region The Yureiguni Fracture proposed constructing embassies.
- : The Parinirvāṇa Vihāra of Bodhi Nirvana granted Communications authority to An earthly pure land as Amitābha in Buddhism.
- : Zhen ceased to exist.
- : An earthly pure land arrived from Osiris.
Buddhism Regional Message Board
Loading..."Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications. From the cessation of fabrications comes the cessation of consciousness. From the cessation of consciousness comes the cessation of name-&-form. From the cessation of name-&-form comes the cessation of the six sense media. From the cessation of the six sense media comes the cessation of contact. From the cessation of contact comes the cessation of feeling. From the cessation of feeling comes the cessation of craving. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering."
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Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of Dependent Co-arising
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Buddhism, Bodhi Nirvana, Maitreya Buddha, Chenrezig, and 2 othersGuan Yin, and Alpu
What’s your favorite Koan?
Breathing in, I see I have more than enough conditions for happiness.
Breathing out, I have nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Buddhism, Bodhi Nirvana, Maitreya Buddha, and An earthly pure land
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What did the Buddha teach about dealing with difficult people in our daily lives?
Metta
Buddhism, Bodhi Nirvana, Maitreya Buddha, Chenrezig, and 2 othersGuan Yin, and Rinsenji
One day a monk walked up to Budai and asked, "What is the meaning of Zen?"
Budai dropped his bag.
"How does one realize Zen?" the monk persisted.
Budai took up his bag and continued on his way.
In the Akkosa Sutta, a man named Akkosa found out that one of his clansmen had just become a disciple of the Buddha. Outraged, Akkosa went to the Buddha to give the Buddha a piece of his mind – he hurled abuse and insults at the Buddha, telling the Buddha what he thought of him in no uncertain terms.
The Buddha was unmoved in the slightest by this barrage of insults and just asked a question in return:
“Do you sometimes receive visitors as guests?”
“Yes I do” replied Akkosa.
“And when they come, do you offer them food and drink and courtesies?” asked the Buddha.
“Yes, sometimes I do” Akkosa said.
“So what if your guests don’t accept what you offer to them – where do the food, drink and courtesies return to?”
“They return to me of course!” Akkosa answered.
“Akkosa, you came here today, hurling insults and abuse at me. I do not accept what you have offered. So where do these insults and abuse return?”
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The Buddha was passing through a village and the people came and they insulted him. They used all the four-letter words that they knew. Buddha stood there, listened silently, very attentively, and then said, ‘Thank you for coming to me, but I am in a hurry. I have to reach the next village, people will be waiting for me there. I cannot devote more time to you today, but tomorrow coming back I will have more time. You can gather again, and tomorrow if something is left that you wanted to say and have not been able to, you can say it. But today, please excuse me.’
Those people could not believe their ears: this man has remained utterly unaffected, undistracted. One of them asked, ‘Have you not heard us? We have been abusing you like anything, and you have not even answered!’
The Buddha said, ‘If you wanted an answer, then you have come too late. You should have come ten years ago, then I would have answered you. But for these ten years I have stopped being manipulated by others. I am no longer a slave, I am my own master. I act according to myself, not according to anybody else. I act according to my inner need. You cannot force me to do anything. It’s perfectly good: you wanted to abuse me, you abused me! Feel fulfilled. You have done your work perfectly well. But as far as I am concerned, I don’t take your insults, and unless I take them, they are meaningless.’
When somebody insults you, you have to become a receiver, you have to accept what he says; only then can you react. But if you don’t accept, if you simply remain detached, if you keep the distance, if you remain cool, what can he do?
The Buddha said, ‘Somebody can throw a burning torch into the river. It will remain alight till it reaches the river. The moment it falls into the river, all fire is gone; the river cools it. I have become a river. You throw abuses at me. They are fire when you throw them, but the moment they reach me, in my coolness, their fire is lost. They no longer hurt. You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers. I act out of my own intrinsic nature.’
- The Book of Understanding by Osho
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