What is blessing?

[Ywet War]

The followers of all the other religions, greet others, saying “God bless you”, but Buddhists very seldom greet others, saying Buddha bless you.

In Buddhist literature there is one sutta with the name of Mangala.
Some teachers translate the word Mangala as Blassing.
If you are interested in Buddhist ethics, Mangala Sutta is one of the important Buddha’s teachings for you to study.

In Mangala Sutta there are 38 reasons to be blessed.
Most of them depend on oneself, who wants blessing.
No one can bless us without any effort on our part.

 

[zenzero]

Friend YW,

*BUDDHA BLESS YOU*

Love & rgds

 

[Ywet War]

Friend YW,

*BUDDHA BLESS YOU*

Love & rgds

Thx alot fri!!!

as a buddhist I want to reply

"I m trying to b blessed"

 

[zenzero]

Friend YW,

as a buddhist I want to reply

"I m trying to b blessed

Can understand it BUT still should you explain the reason why buddhists would respond in this fashion?
Love & rgds

 

[Master Vigil]

Buddha is not a god. Because of this, buddhists would not say "buddha bless you" like others say "god bless you". Does that make sense?

 

[zenzero]

Friend MV,

Buddha means the AWAKENED one and through religion one is trying to be awakened.
Awakening means CONSCIOUSNESS.
Buddha bless you just means allow consciousness to shower or let consciousness pervade you etc.
[personal understanding]
Love & rgds

 

[Master Vigil]

I understand your understanding. I'm just not entirely sure that it's at all comparable to saying... "god bless you".

 

[koan]

How about, may you have many blessings.

 

[Ywet War]

Friend YW,
Can understand it BUT still should you explain the reason why buddhists would respond in this fashion?
Love & rgds

As Buddha taught in Mangala Sutta, I understand that we cannot get any blessing without own effort. We cannot get blessing by praying nor by worshiping.

To be blessed we must have...
1) good actions
2) good speechs and
3) good thoughts.

that is why i need to reply as shown in previous post.

 

[Ywet War]

If you are interested in Buddhist ethics, Mangala Sutta is one of the important Buddha’s teachings for you to study. If you are not a Buddhist, I don’t hope that you will accept the first 4-paragraphs. But these paragraphs are not very important, because they don’t concern with any of human ethics. Therefore please pay more attention to the other paragraphs.

Here you can listen and download mp3 file of
Mangala Sutta by
by Ashin Silanandabhivamsa
(Agga Maha Pandita)
(Rector of the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University of Yangon in Myanmar)


Biography of Venerable U Silananda can be read at this link

 

[zenzero]

Friend YW,

As Buddha taught in Mangala Sutta, I understand that we cannot get any blessing without own effort. We cannot get blessing by praying nor by worshiping.

To be blessed we must have...
1) good actions
2) good speechs and
3) good thoughts.

Agree & accepted.
Thank you.
May Buddha bless you!
Love & rgds