Today, the development of Buddhism throughout the world and became a major religion of humanity, which is due to the preachers of the Buddha and the Buddhist Sangha. But to be taken into account when practicing ascetic Gotama attained full enlightenment Buddhism time actually appear. The time of day that we call the Buddha attained enlightenment.
During the life of the prince, to the renunciation and enlightenment, the Buddha has a very exemplary life. Life that shows his maturity both as a monastic house as well. Anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment, please identify who wrote something about the maturity of the Buddha as a prince, in order to benefit the lives of today's practicing every young student monks.
Right from birth, Prince Siddhartha was expressing divine incarnation: he walked on seven lotus express life through improved legal legs. So, throughout life, even in his aspect there is also prominent than others. The key is that the outstanding maturity of the Aryans.
1. Complete knowledge
Prince has an innate ability to learn for learning any subject whatever He also smooth and professional wise than his teacher. According to historical documents seamlessly He contingent alliances, understanding most fields of science, culture, medicine, politics and religion at the time.
We know that knowledge plays a key role in human life. The new knowledge has an understanding of the world and worldview. The Prince smooth all areas of life shows that his knowledge was uplifted to a height of contemporary society, a society that Balaam philosophical subjects always appreciated the role of knowledge . Because complete knowledge So he understood human values, to understand the relationship between people and people. Since then he realized the injustice of a classless society. He realized flows religious thought is now not for human liberation. Is it the restless, concerns, thoughts toward new sources of knowledge can free the people inside Prince Siddhartha, the motivation to contribute to the aspirations of his later renunciation.
To complete knowledge, besides endowment, we see in him there is the relentless progressive. When the consultation and to learn to master the famous Prince receives her knowledge but not fully accepted. Evidence that the practice is doing to A INFLATION and Hebei head. Then, A is doing and in turn inflation Hebei First introduced to Prince knowledge of practices of meditation to achieve the formless meditation floor. But when it reached the floor meditating, Prince still not satisfied ultimate knowledge. So that his knowledge is knowledge toward human liberation must not stop to enjoy the peace in a public realm of the sublime. Finally not achieve his purpose to go out on his own higher knowledge sources.
2. Uplifting Awareness
The goal of our life toward truth always, good and beauty. It is the common goal of all mankind on this earth. But that goal through awareness to new upstream direction can be realized.
Besides a complete knowledge and awareness of life Prince Siddhartha also extremely deep. His Awareness rooted in objective reality through the witness of social relationships. Recognizing that are always directed to the welfare of sentient beings, especially human beings.
According to the book The Buddha and France 's Presbyterian Narada, about 8 years old, his father the Prince attended a traditional plowing ceremony. While people have fun singing Prince caught images of insects are eaten frogs, frog and snake in snakes and then hawks swooping down to be curled. Prince realized that the struggle for existence of beings always brings suffering beings. Narada elders have said: this is a strange event happened in Prince childhood. The event was a spiritual experience will help him a lot when he determined to find the truth. This fact is also key to open the way for him to stroll through the Enlightenment. [1]
Check out the grim struggle for the crown prince had a motive to save all beings. He boldly defend a wounded bird from the hand of Devadatta in perspective: the bird belonged to respect life.
Looking beyond the social time, he found that human values trampled down the end of suffering. Lower classes are not free, extreme dominated from physical to spiritual. Social conflict is essentially just the struggle for survival of the strongest is weak loser, living in one another's life. This perception led to an elimination of caste ideology, finding a way for people respect each other, love each other and make each other miserable. Was this awareness is the premise for his teachings later when the Enlightenment: no class in the red blood and the tears salty?
But awareness is better to recognize the Prince rule of human birth and death. Through visits to roam outside, he realized he must be governed by old age, sickness and death. This awareness is the most powerful impetus to the aspirations of screening liberating truth of God. Bridges Bible describe his mood at the time: the elderly Himself suffered death, sorrow and defilement. Because aging is dominated by death, sorrow and defilement should be subject to their disadvantage. Or go find something is successful, the absolute and supreme Nirvana throughout Europe. [2]
3. Winning the nature of desire
Born in the royal palace, the prince nourished and provide the service with full enjoyment of the five pleasures. He saw clearly the nature of desire is an instinctive enjoyment of human heavy. This instinctive urge Government and shoving people go on suffering of samsara. According ideas in The Elder Rahula What the Buddha taught? analysis that the nature of desire is the tendency to seek gratification of the senses. The loss that seek a balance between instinct and reason, then people are not driven by rational instinct that life should lose yourself. Once married, the burden of increased craving in his life. His lament was another tie, an extra burden. [3]
One night after lavish banquets, husband Prince awoke, saw the maids is listed asleep, wake him suddenly realize that behind the sensual exhilaration is both a long tiring night full of sorrows. He taught: life at home very narrow backwater, a place of refuge to dust pollution, but the life of the monastic rank is indeed immense floral heaven. [4]
From the perception of the nature of desire, Prince seamless part of the cause of the pain should overcome his instinct to enjoy this, remove green hair, leave old father, beautiful wife, good children and throne Prince commitment to find the path to enlightenment for themselves. This is a great victory itself but only saint can do.
Even in a battlefield
Win thousands of thousands of enemy troops
Not in order to win their
The victory was paramount.
4. The perfect enlightenment
Most mature in life Prince Siddhartha is perhaps nothing more than the practices of his creative self by finding and bringing to full enlightenment. Due to the strong desire to conquer, with perfect awareness and knowledge wonderful prince commitment to practice all religious schools throughout the 5 years. During the process, but no purpose but to satisfy the prince learned the valuable experience to build up your own practice right way. Benefit from is that middle path.
He found that the practices of asceticism did not lead to liberation for the body too shabby, mental health and thinking and not enough to penetrate the realm of meditation. This 4-way benefit from:
- Minimize the food.
- Minimize wear clothes, used clothes bark or holes can do.
- In the middle of mountain forest, not in the village.
- Patients not taking medicine.
He also realized his practices tolerated by the body so do not bring benefits to the practice. Four measures:
- Eating fullness.
- Wearing beautiful.
- At the topping.
- Patients taking good medicines and tonics.
He taught that:
"O is for monks, there are two extremes that every ordained to avoid:
The pleasure is filed under the vile, vulgar, profane, unworthy virtue of mercy saint, and useless.
The passionate attachment style asceticism is painful, unworthy virtue of mercy saint, and useless.
Abandoning that both extremes, the Tathagata has realized the way the Middle Path , the path brings perspective and knowledge leads to peace, supreme wisdom, enlightenment and Nirvana. [5]
Four Middle Way are:
- Eating a meal at noon alms.
- Even the creation care.
- In the night under the tree, leaf cup.
- Using cow dung as medicine when sick.
Through creative path full of wisdom is consistent with the path to inner liberation after 49 days and nights of meditation, eventually Prince Siddhartha attained Enlightenment. Then he is Buddha, a Tathagata between this world. This is the ultimate of his adult when Buddha attained.
In summary, the growth was the result through a long process of learning from knowledge through life experience. With products that are part of learning and practice. We study the Buddha when he attained not an exemplary life reflected in his lifestyle. By understanding and awareness towards charitable behavior in harmony with His people. He is willing to share in the suffering of society, being selfless help the beings in distress. Above all, the growth in His way is a very important lesson for students of Buddhism today. That gives us a lesson that today's knowledge whether progressed smoothly and virtually all living areas also provide knowledge only. If you do not apply that knowledge in daily practice, we just reached maturity on substantive arguments rather not mature on the path to enlightenment. No different from mere rote without ever speaking spiritual experience or achieve the final liberation at all. We must follow the example of the Buddhist Prince parallel wholeheartedly with all his Buddhist practice, so new right path to enlightenment that he had to go back and teach us. How to live a full and meaningful new day that the Buddha attained enlightenment.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.NAM MO SAKYA MUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.8/6/2014.
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