The Ten Worlds

Hell: Gastric Cancer; Multiple life threatening trauma; severe depression; a tooth ache; fighting/warring; losing a loved one, migraine headache; torture. 

Hunger: Never satisfied; Failing to allow others to listen to our sermons; starvation. Greedy men and women.

Animality; instinctual; unthinking; sleeping much, lashing out to the mildest affront; eating, defecating; big dog, little dog; fawning

Anger: quick tempered; yelling and screaming. Thinking oneself better than others;

Tranquility: a day at the beach; watching television; a stroll through the garden; resting

Rapture; hitting the Lottery; orgasm; the birth of a child. Fleeting usually and it is taught, Hell lies around the corner from Rapture

Learning: studying; utilizing the teachings of others; self reflection; self satisfied understanding; attaining a type of Therevadan Enlightenment through the teachings of other.s

Absorption: Creating something, music, architecture, surgery, self satisfied understanding; having a personal goal; Attaining a type of Theravadan Enlightenement by seeing the utter transience of the world all by oneself.

Bodhisattva: single pointed caring and love for a child, spouse, parent; love of humanity; sharing the teachings of the Buddha and Nichiren; selflessness;

Buddha: Supremely and perfectly Enlightened:

1. The One That Has Come (Tathagata) - This refers to the One that comes down to this world from the realm of the absolute spiritual reality to enlighten living beings (and then reenters Nirvana, returning back to that absolute reality).

2. Worthy of Offerings or Worthy of Worship (Arhat) 

3. Truly Omniscient (Samyak Sambuddha) - Having the ‘Wisdom of All’, awakened to the oneness of all things. Seeing beyond duality and yet understanding how all things properly fit in to the great fabric of the one reality. This is understanding the three truths.

4. Perfect in Illumination and Conduct (Vidya-carana-sampanna) - Perfection in both spiritual understanding (of Nirvana, selflessness, and impermanence, the 3 seals of the Dharma) as well in one’s actions (thoughts, words and deeds).

5. Well Departed (Sugata) - The opposite of ‘The One That Has Come’ (Tathagata) - One who leaves this world a better place upon leaving it.

6. Understanding the World (Lokavit) - Understanding cause and effect, karma and retribution, the destiny of all paths, the past, present and future, and the Saha world, the mortal realm of Life & Death (Samsara).

7. Supreme (Anuttara) - Unexcelled, peerless. It is often used in conjunction with ‘Truly Omniscient’. When they are paired, it refers to the total blending of the three truths, the perfection of enlightenment.

8. Tamer of Men (Purusa-damya-sarathi) - Like the tamer of elephants and lions, the Buddha is able to bring the emotional distress (klesas) of others under control and make them serene and illumined.

9. Teacher of Gods and Men (Sasta deva-manusyanam) - The Buddha is able to teach of morality to gods (devas) and men (manusyas) to keep them from evil and is also able to teach them of liberation from the mortal realm of Life & Death.

10. The World Honored Enlightened One (Buddha-Bhagavan or Buddha-Lokanatha) - The Enlightened or Awakened One (Buddha) refers to the one who is awakenedto the true Nirvana, who recognizes that this enlightenment dwells in all living beings and who is determined to awaken this in all living beings. When revealed in this world, this enlightened one (Buddha) is honored by all living beings.