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RE: The Early Schools of Indian Buddhism Series
I have not participated in your posts several times, so I have a little trouble understanding all of your explanations, but I just want to see a little comparison in Islam, that in Islam there are also many schools of belief, they then set up their respective schools to continue their beliefs , even though during the prophet Muhammmad and the companions of Abu Bakr and Saidina Umar bin Khattab there was only one belief stream.
Most of us can glean helpful information about how Buddhist explored our shared reality and experience as a human being and fashioned healthy relationships between self and other.
Dear @steemitnatural, to understand these posts one has to be well versed in studies of the seven books of the Abhidhamma Pitaka, the third division of the Tipitaka, offer an extraordinarily detailed analysis of the fundamental natural principles that governmental and physical processes.
Our articles are related Abhidhamma/Abhidharma text, and the post my husband and I are writing are arguments and disagreements between the early schools that have formed the Theravada, Mahayana (Avatamsaka, Zen, Pure Land, T'ien T'ai, Madhyamika, Yogacara, Ch'an, etc.) and Vajrayana traditions we have today.
If one thinks, speaks or acts with an evil mind, misery follows him just as the wheel follows the hoofs of the ox that draws the cart. If one thinks, speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows him like his shadow that never leaves him—Dhammapada, Verses 1&2
MENTAL SCIENCE OR ULTIMATE SCIENCEThere may not be any connection to other religions except for a strong foundation with morality and virtuous behavior that brings peace to the individual and community.