Human beings in Buddhism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Human beings in Buddhism


00:01:11 1 Qualities of human life
00:06:29 2 Myth of human origins
00:07:30 3 Nature of the human realm
00:08:57 4 Notes
00:09:06 5 Further reading
00:09:33 6 Sources



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Humans in Buddhism (Sanskrit manuṣya, Pali manussa) are the subjects of an extensive commentarial literature that examines the nature and qualities of a human life from the point of view of humans' ability to achieve enlightenment. In Buddhism, humans  are just one type of sentient being, that is a being with a mindstream. In Sanskrit Manushya means an Animal with a mind. In Sanskrit the word Manusmriti associated with Manushya was used to describe knowledge through memory. The word Muun or Maan means mind. Mind is collection of past experience with an ability of memory or smriti. Mind is considered as a animal with a disease that departs a soul from its universal enlightened infinitesimal behavior to the finite miserable fearful behavior that fluctuates between the state of heaven and hell before it is extinguished back to its infinitesimal behavior. 
In Buddhism, humans have a very special status: only a human can attain enlightenment as a fully enlightened Buddha.  Enlightenment as an arhat can be attained from the realms of the Śuddhāvāsa deities.  A bodhisattva can appear in many different types of lives, for instance as an animal or as a deva.  Buddhas, however, are always human.