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The Story Of The Buddha
More than 2,500 years in the past, Prince Siddharta Gautama was given birth in what is currently called Lumbini in Nepal. He was born a prince and his birth had been received with many special conditions that indicated a future of greatness. The prince's father asked a wiseman that lived in the kingdom for guidance about his boy. The sage man believed that the prince, Siddharta Gautama, would either follow in his father's footsteps and turn out to be a great king or he might become a spiritual leader.
Praying that his son would become his successor, the king managed his best to separate the prince from those activities that could inspire him toward a spiritual life. The prince was bombarded by comfort and excess, every one of the rewards that his royal status could offer. Siddharta Gautama proved to be a brilliant student and exceptional sportsman. He wed a beautiful woman whom he cherished and they bore a son.
At the age of 29, the prince found out that the world surrounding him was far more complex than what he encountered in the walls of his palace. Out among the people of the kingdom, he found reality: sickness, old-age and death. The shock of this finding left the young prince shaken. He made the decision then to dedicate himself to ending the suffering. Leaving his wife and child, the prince forsaked his worldly property and embarked on a spiritual quest.
Guatama started a course of study with numerous instructors to master their particular practices. With the help of Alara Kalama, he began to learn meditation and discovered an exalted form known as absorption. This permitted him to attain a state of nothingness where there was no moral or cognitive dimension. While this was beneficial it was apparent to the past prince that it wouldn't resolve the suffering he had seen. Guatama carried on his hunt for other people who could guide him on his spiritual quest. Udraka Ramputra, helped Gautama to comprehend a state of neither perception or non-perception, but this to wasn't just what he was searching for. The next step in his quest led Gautama to Uruvilva in North India. It was there he selected an ascetic path, experiencing a life of deprival for nearly 6 years. This just led to the degradation of his entire body, weakness and self-destruction. Even though it cost him his five followers, Gautama ended this ascetic lifestyle.
The end of this spiritual journey seemed as far away as ever, so the Buddha sat down under a Bodhi tree and announced that "flesh may wither, blood may dry up, but I shall not rise from the spot until Enlightenment has been one." After 40 days and nights of thought and meditation, the Buddha at long last achieved Enlightenment.
It's the Buddhist belief that at that time he achieved a state of being that exceeds anything else in the world. Each of our normal experiences are based on preconceptions and circumstances: how we were raised, our encounters, faults and mistakes. Enlightenment is a state in which the complex internal workings of existence become apparent and the reason for human suffering discovered.
For the next 45 years, the Buddha moved through much of what is now northern India. He taught the way of Enlightenment to all or any who desired to understand. This particular instruction had become known as the dharma or "the teaching of the enlightened one. The Buddha accepted many disciples who in turn attained their own Enlightenment and they taught others.
Buddhists believe that Buddha achieved a state of being that flows beyond everthing else in the world. If normal experience is founded on conditions - parental input, psychology, viewpoints, awareness, and so on - Enlightenment is Unconditioned. It was a state in which the Buddha obtained insight into the deepest workings of life and for that reason, into the reason for human suffering, the challenge that had set Him on His spiritual quest in the first place.
The Buddha statue we often see doesn not represent a god and did not consider himself as a divine creature. He was just a human who endeavored to transform himself through self reflection and meditation. Buddhists view him as an ideal and his quest as a guideline which will guide them on the path to enlightenment. Most homes that practice Buddhism will display a statue of Buddha, but this is intended to remind them of their own spiritual journey.
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If your mom comes home one day with a Buddha statue, and she claims it can protect your house..?
what would you do?
Many Buddhists in Asia do that, and believe that Buddha statues can protect the house. (I live in Asia, and I was a Buddhist in Asia)
Dear Friend,
I would kindly tell her that, "Me and my household serve the living God, Jesus Christ; and that she could take her statue home with her."
They don't make 'em like Bernie Carbo anymore
Boy, was it fun running into Bernie Carbo at LeLacheur Park recently. The flaky former Red Sox outfielder who hit one of the most dramatic home runs in World Series history was a guest, along with his wife and four children, of the Lowell Spinners that night.
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