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[Alexandr Korol]

Chapter 17. Milky Ocean

Further. Now I made more of an emphasis, again I was thrown from topic to topic... For some reason, over the past weeks the system has plunged me very strongly into the theme of Hinduism and Buddhism, so that I would become more interested, curious, where the theme of the heavens, the world of heaven appears and who lives there in the heaven. How does it all even happen there? Now I want to make an emphasis on this. “The Tushita Heaven” in Wikipedia: “The Buddha Maitreya abides in the Tushita Heaven (Sanskrit: ‘Garden of Joy’) awaiting the time when it will become favorable for Salvation.” That is, it turns out, in the world of heaven lives the awakened one and waits for some time for salvation. Further: “The Tushita Heaven is the fourth from below among the six Heavens of the gods of the World of Desire (World of Passion, Kamaloka), as described in the sutras. In the world of Tushita are reborn beings who have observed the five precepts: do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not lie, do not use alcoholic drinks — and who have also cultivated through good deeds and meditation the boundless states of consciousness: Loving heart, Compassion, Sympathetic joy (Praise), Equanimity of the Awakened Mind (Impartiality) — in other words, those qualities that constitute the essence of the awakened mind. In this world are reborn the bodhisattvas. According to the Mahayana sutras, the Buddha Shakyamuni, before being reborn on Earth two and a half thousand years ago, incarnated in this Heaven.” Oh, you see? That is, it turns out that before the Buddha was reborn on earth, to appear, so to speak, on earth, he was first in the heavens. And it turns out that as if it is impossible for the Buddha or the Messiah, the second coming or whoever everyone is waiting for, it is impossible for him, as if, to come to earth without passing through this path, that he must first of all die and be born in heaven. And only then descend from heaven to earth. “The Appearance of Maitreya,” Maitreya — this is the Buddha in Buddhism, the one everyone is waiting for, like the second coming in Christianity. “The Appearance of Maitreya coincides with the formation of a new school surpassing the teaching of Buddha Gautama. It is foretold that Maitreya will attain enlightenment in seven days (the minimum period) thanks to preparation during many of his lives (by analogy with what is told in the Jataka