Yana Violice Story
Yana Violice grew up in a Buddhist neighborhood. Her family brought her up under the Buddhist teachings and she became very aware of all of the stories of past Buddhists that undertook her own beliefs and values in her own practice. She is here today to tell her story.
Stories
One main thing that I think has made me continue to practice certain qualities is Buddhism is because my parents really instilled in me the stories of previous Buddhists. I can remember other neighborhood kids not really caring to learn or talk about their religion while I was growing up but my siblings and I really actually enjoyed our teachings and lessons and I truly believe it was because of the stories. My mother was big on making everything into a visual so that it would stick with us a lot more. My favorite story was of the Prince Siddhattha. I made my parents tell and retell his story to me almost every single day! I’m sure they grew very tired of it but it just fascinated me so much as a child. Prince Siddhattha spent many years of his life inside a palace with all of the pleasures that a Prince could want. Then one day out of dissatisfaction, Siddhartha asked his charioteer to take him outside of the palace walls. Here he came across four different sights that would then become important to the Buddhist culture.
The First Excursion
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It is divided into three different categories: wisdom, morality, and meditation. Under wisdom there are two main concepts including right view and right thought. Morality has three key concepts including right speech, right action, and right livelihood. Lastly mediation has three concepts which are right effort, right mindfulness, and right mediation. It is said that once you accomplish the eightfold path that you will reach nirvana. Nirvana is the sense of perfect happiness and is the biggest goal of any Buddah. Even I am always aware of my actions and always trying to reach
Stories
One main thing that I think has made me continue to practice certain qualities is Buddhism is because my parents really instilled in me the stories of previous Buddhists. I can remember other neighborhood kids not really caring to learn or talk about their religion while I was growing up but my siblings and I really actually enjoyed our teachings and lessons and I truly believe it was because of the stories. My mother was big on making everything into a visual so that it would stick with us a lot more. My favorite story was of the Prince Siddhattha. I made my parents tell and retell his story to me almost every single day! I’m sure they grew very tired of it but it just fascinated me so much as a child. Prince Siddhattha spent many years of his life inside a palace with all of the pleasures that a Prince could want. Then one day out of dissatisfaction, Siddhartha asked his charioteer to take him outside of the palace walls. Here he came across four different sights that would then become important to the Buddhist culture.
The First Excursion
On the …show more content…
It is divided into three different categories: wisdom, morality, and meditation. Under wisdom there are two main concepts including right view and right thought. Morality has three key concepts including right speech, right action, and right livelihood. Lastly mediation has three concepts which are right effort, right mindfulness, and right mediation. It is said that once you accomplish the eightfold path that you will reach nirvana. Nirvana is the sense of perfect happiness and is the biggest goal of any Buddah. Even I am always aware of my actions and always trying to reach