Buddha's Descent from Heaven: Three Jewels Sutra: Merit-Accumulating Recitation for Buddha Days

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Hello, I follow your work and I congratulate you for the considerable efforts that you make every day! But I have been interested in Buddhism for some time but unfortunately there is no Buddhist center in my country (in Africa) so I would like to know if Buddhism can protect me from black magic, witchcraft, bad spells and negative spirits???

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Nice to hear from you, and thank you for your kind words. There are many places without access to a spiritual guide or teacher, which is one reason we started this channel -- to help reach people with Dharma who haven't got easy access to the precious teachings. Buddhist practices do not require a temple or formal set up. What matters is your body, speech and mind. We practice with those three. With body we prostrate to the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) and 🙏make offerings as we are able. (This can mentally offered. You don't have to have a shrine.) We practice with speech -- by Taking Refuge verbally, to affirm our faith, and by chanting mantras, and by dedicating the merit to the benefit of all beings. We practice with mind, by meditating on metta, karuna and mindfulness -- love, compassion and wisdom. Don't feel you need to wait to travel to a distant temple. The temple is in your own heart and the power is in your own Body, Speech and Mind. Take Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha with faith, and you protected already. Keep watching. We try to bring Dharma to places without a nearby temple:-) What matters is creating merit, having faith, and practices. 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 With Metta and Karuna, in Kindness, BW.

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@BuddhaWeekly thank you so much I will follow your advice but I would like to ask you one last thing: which of the deities among those that you teach on your channel do you advise me to practice???

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🙏🙏🙏The foundations of practice for everyone is the Three Jewels. We always start with Refuge in the Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Foundation practices include offerings, prostrations and other practices that accumulate merit and wisdom -- which purifies negative karma and helps clear obstacles. Reciting Sutras is also suitable for everyone, from new to advanced practitioners -- and is very protective. For instance, Tara Sutra (link below), or the very protective Universal Gate Sutra of Avalokiteshvara. We have a recitation here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5CzcmB5bMl9mpI Avalokiteshvara protects from 10 fears and dangers (explained in the sutra linked above) -- just reciting his name with faith is protective. The most protective activity Buddha is Green Tara and her 21 forms. Both Avalokiteshvara and Tara and other Enlightened Buddhas are extremely protective. For a focus of your practice (Yidam) -- or a "heart" practice -- we normally follow our hearts, literally. If we remember that all Buddha's are inseparable, that making offerings and practices and meditating mindfully on one Buddha is the same as meditating on all Buddhas, since they are ultimately of one nature, then we can practice any of the Buddha emanations that appeal to you. And, it is good that you are asking in the context of a single practice to focus on -- that's good advice for anyone. In your case -- and of course no one can advise you without knowing more -- you mentioned protection and black magic, and so on. For this, you need "activity" practices, called "karma practices" to actively protect. The universal favorite for this is Mother Tara. She is a caring mother, so she will certainly listen. She is the activity Buddha -- one of her labels is "activity of all the Buddhas" -- so even people who practice other meditational heart yidams still turn to her when they are in trouble. She has many practices and forms -- more than any other Buddha because of her focus on activity in our world. In her Green Tara form she combines every activity. There are countless stories of her activity and rescues and protection, from teachers. Tara practice is accessible to everyone, with or without a teacher (of course with is best, but we do what we can). Green Tara practice combines all Tara's. Even if you are focused on, for example, Black Tara for curses and evil intentions of others, you still practice Green Tara usually before focusing on her more specialist wrathful form. We have a simple Sadhana (practice) seven minutes long at the end of the "about Green Tara" video as a short practice here, and on our website you'll find a PDF of that Sadhana that you can refer to. The video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2ivpJeOa7uFqsk&t Her Sadhana PDF is available here: buddhaweekly.com/arya-tara-sadhana/ Her entire SUTRA is here if you'd like to recite it (outloud is good): buddhaweekly.com/?p=23734 Her Dharani (long mantra) is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmKZipWuab56qrc If you are practice Tara, it is extremely meritorious to chant the 21 Praises to 21 Taras -- which praises each of her 21 Forms (one of which is a specialist in protection from black magic and evil intentions). You can chant or listen in either Sanskrit (it is very protective and meritorious as you're prostrating to 21 forms of Tara): Sanskrit 21 Taras: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZonPiqCXaq2KlbM Wrathful Black Tara specifically, the 7th Tara, is the "specialist form" for black magic, spells and curses and she is very effective. I hear from people all the time with messages about her help. We have her protective mantra here (some people play it when they feel threatened, or chant along). She appears wrathful and angry to symbolize her power: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZvWc4Zonsx7sK8 If you are drawn to Avalokiteshvara or Manjushri or other Enlightened forms, that's where your heart is, and they are equally protective and complete, combining wisdom on compassion. But for active protection, even people who practice Avalokiteshvara or Manjushri or others, Tara is still the go-to hero of protection. The most important advice is to seek protection only from Enlightened Buddhas, as we take Refuge in the Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. There are other practices that are protective, but they require training and a teacher. The reason is, that Enlightened Buddhas can only help and never harm. I hope this helps. In kindness

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@@BuddhaWeekly Thank you very much for your warm answers I am really touched, I have looked through many of your videos and I felt close to Tara and coincidence I come across your comment and you talk a lot about Tara! with your advice I will follow the Sadhana of Tara, I hope to free her from doubt and lack of faith to do with a lot of devotion. Thank you very much

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🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏Wishing you the best with your practice. May all beings benefit. You will probably enjoy tomorrow's video, which is called 21 Taras in 21 minutes, a Daily practice. In kindness, BW.

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But the day is different in Theravada Buddhism. It is already finished.

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Yes, there are three lunar calendars, depending on where you live and your local traditions. There are three systems: lunisiderial, lunisolar, and pure lunar. This date as celebrated here is on the Tibetan lunar calendar. Many countries in Asia and India use the lunisolar calendar (which is a compromise between lunar and solar), while Tibetan Buddhism uses “skip days” and “double days” to make up for the difference in days between the lunar month/year and the solar. We have a feature about the three systems here: buddhaweekly.com/confusion-lunar/ Since Tibetan Buddhism places a relatively larger emphasis on astrology and lunar, this observation is for Tibetan calendar -- which is more strictly lunar. For example, this year, New years were all on different dates depending on tradition: Solar Calendar: January 1, 2024 Mahayana New Year: January 25, 2024 Tibetan New Year LOSAR: February 10, 2024 Chinese New Year: February 10, 2024 Theravadan New Year: April 24, 2024 We try to put the dates for all traditions on our Dharma calendar, found here: buddhaweekly.com/dharma-dates-2024/ Hope that helps.

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