Bīja Niyama – The Law of Organic Life

Bīja literally means 'seed', in the sense of 'germ of life'. Thus this law called Bīja Niyāma, is essentially the law that governs the growth of organic life, from the smallest germ to the birth and growth of higher beings. When some small particle of matter, surrounded by a medium of water which is neither…

Utu Niyāma – The Law of Physical Nature

Utu Niyama - The Law of Physical Nature The Buddha declared, that an absolute beginning of things can not be found. Yet in regard to the phenomenal world, whether on a grand scale or in the very tiny things, all things are understood to possess these two sides of a spectrum, one being the beginning…

Kamma Niyāma – The Law of Kamma

Kamma Niyāma - The Law of Kamma Kamma Niyāma is the law of will or intention. Whenever the mind based on previous investigation and classification (of some sense-sphere phenomena) is thinking a thought, that thought will incline in one direction or another (usually dependent on how something was classified). When that direction of thought, becomes…

Citta Niyāma – The Law of Mentation

Citta Niyāma- The Law of Mentation Citta Niyāma is the law of mind. It is the law that governs the appearance and sequence in regard to mental phenomena. Even as the coarsest and deadest of matter, contains in it the potential for life, in that, by chance it might combine with a material sympathetic with…

Application of the Knowledge of the 5 Niyamas

Once a person has acquired an understanding of natural laws and the natural sequence of those laws, he will have to order each item of importance under the functionings of those laws. That is, how anything that he would like to understand properly, is working out or is functioning under the governance of each of…

Bīja Niyāma (2)- The Law of Organic Life

Bīja Niyama is the law of organic life. Bīja literally means 'seed', in the sense of 'germ of life'. Thus, Bīja Niyama, is essentially the law that governs the growth of life...from plant growth to the birth and growth of higher beings. All the immutable facts of life, prove the existence of the law that…

The Problem of Good and Evil

Good begets good, bad begets bad. Most people, at the very least have heard such saying. Yet, although there may be situations in life where it is quite obvious what is good and what is bad, many times in life we may come across situations in which it is difficult to decide which road or…

Pañca Niyama – Laws of Existence

By learning to comprehend different relations between mind and matter (as shown in the post on the Paṭṭhāna conditions), as consciousness grows ever grander and more-encompassing, it may slowly come into a position to gain insight into the laws governing the entirety of phenomenal existence. And those are the Niyāma of which the Buddhist System…