When it hurts we say, 'Ouch. Merwin, poet : "Buddhism is trying to look at things the way they are. The way it is, just as it is. It hurts. This is life. This is our life. And our relation to life involves losing it too.
You don't get beyond these things. You don't get beyond them. Buddhas laugh, cry, dance, feel ecstasy probably even feel despair. It is how we know the world. It is how we live inside of our hearts and not dissociated from them. The Buddha had always been saying goodbye. Now, he prepared to leave the earth forever. He would never be reborn, never die again. The Buddha told his disciples:. Death of the Buddha Art Resource, Inc. The other is that he died by a sudden illness which began after he ate what is known as "Sukaramaddava" D II, The former story was probably a legend, or the result of a political struggle within the Buddhist community during a stage of transition, whereas the latter sounds more realistic and accurate in describing a real life situation that happened in the Buddha's last days.
But the timing contradicts information given in the sutra, which states clearly that the Buddha died soon after the rainy-season retreat, most likely during the autumn or mid-winter, that is, November to January. A description of the miracle of the unseasonal blooming of leaves and flowers on the sala trees, when the Buddha was laid down between them, indicates the time frame given in the sutra. Autumn and winter, however, are seasons that are not favourable for the growth of mushrooms, which some scholars believe to be the source of the poison that the Buddha ate during his last meal.
Websites and Resources on Buddhism: Buddha Net buddhanet. Dhammika buddhanet. The hour of parting is bound to come in the end. Now I have done what I could do, both for myself and for others.
To stay here would from now on be without any purpose. I have disciplined, in heaven and on earth, all those whom I could discipline, and I have set them in the stream. Hereafter this my Dharma, 0 monks, shall abide for generations and generations among living beings.
Therefore, recognize the true nature of the living world, and do not be anxious; for separation cannot possibly be avoided.
Recognize that all that lives is subject to this law; and strive from today onwards that it shall be thus no more! When the light of gnosis has dispelled the darkness of ignorance, when an existence has been seen as without substance, peace ensues when life draws to an end, which seems to cure a long sickness at last. Everything, whether stationary or moveable, is bound to perish in the end. Be ye therefore mindful and vigilant! The time for my entry into Nirvana has now arrived.
These are my last words! And then, when he had ascended through all the nine stages of meditational attainment, the great Seer reversed the process, and returned again to the first trance. Again he emerged from that, and once more he ascended step by step to the fourth trance.
When he emerged from the practice of that, he came face to face with everlasting Peace. The heavens were lit up by a preternatural fire, which burned without fuel, without smoke, without being fanned by the wind. Fearsome thunderbolts crashed down on the earth, and violent winds raged in the sky. The moon's light waned, and, in spite of a cloudless sky, an uncanny darkness spread everywhere.
The rivers, as if overcome with grief, were filled with boiling water. Beautiful flowers grew out of season on the Sal trees above the Buddha's couch, and the trees bent down over him and showered his golden body with their flowers. Like as many gods the five-headed Nagas stood motionless in the sky, their eyes reddened with grief, their hoods closed and their bodies kept in restraint, and with deep devotion they gazed upon the body of the Sage.
But, well-established in the practice of the -supreme Dharma, the gathering of the gods round king Vaishravana was not grieved and shed no tears, so great was their attachment to the Dharma.
The Gods of the Pure Abode, though they had great reverence for the Great Seer, remained composed, and their minds were unaffected; for they hold the things of this world in the utmost contempt. The Kings of the Gandharvas and Nagas, as well as the Yakshas and the Devas who rejoice in the true Dharma-they all stood in the sky, mourning and absorbed in the utmost grief.
But Mara's hosts felt that they had obtained their heart's desire. Overjoyed they uttered loud laughs, danced about, hissed like snakes, and triumphantly made a frightful din by beating drums, gongs and tom-toms.
And the world, when the Prince of Seers had passed beyond, became like a mountain whose peak has been shattered by a thunderbolt; it became like the sky without the moon, like a pond whose lotuses the frost has withered, or like learning rendered ineffective by lack of wealth. The Buddha, considered as a spiritual principle and not as a historical person, is called 'Tathagata. In fact it is many hundreds of thousands of myriads of Kotis of aeons ago that I, have awoken to full enlightenment.
Ever since, during all that time I have demonstrated Dharma to beings in this Saha world system, and also in hundreds of thousands of Nayutas of Kotis of other world systems. But when I have spoken of other Tathagatas, beginning with the Tathagata Dipinkara, and of the Nirvana of these Tathagatas, then that has just been conjured up by me as an emission of the skill in means by which I demonstrate Dharma.
To each generation he announces his name, declares that he has entered Nirvana, and brings peace to beings by various discourses on Dharma.
To beings who are of low disposition, whose store of merit is small, and whose depravities are many, he says in that case: 'I am young in years, monks, I have left the home of my family, and but lately have I won full enlighten ment. All these discourse on Dharma have been taught by the Tathagata in order to discipline beings.
For the Tath-a gata has seen the triple world as it really is: It is not born, it dies not there is no decease or rebirth, no Samsara- or Nirvana; it is not real or unreal, not existent, or non-existent, not such, or otherwise, no false or not-false.
Not in such a way has the Tathagata seen the triple world as the foolish common people see it. The Tathagata I face to face with the reality of dharmas; he can therefore be under no delusion about them.
Whatever words the Tathagata may utter with regard to them, they are true, not false, not otherwise. For a Tathagata performs a Tathagata's work. Fully enlightened for ever so long, the Tathagata has an endless span of life, he lasts for ever.
Although the Tathagata has not entered Nirvana, he makes a show of entering Nirvana, for the sake of those who have to be educated.
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History Vault. Space Exploration. The name Buddha means "one who is awakened" or "the enlightened one. According to the most widely known story of his life, after experimenting with different teachings for years, and finding none of them acceptable, Siddhartha Gautama spent a fateful night in deep meditation beneath a tree.
During his meditation, all of the answers he had been seeking became clear, and he achieved full awareness, thereby becoming Buddha. Buddha was born in the 6th century B.
Other researchers believe he was born later, even as late as B. And some Buddhists believe Gautama Buddha lived from B. But virtually all scholars believe Siddhartha Gautama was born in Lumbini in present-day Nepal.
He belonged to a large clan called the Shakyas. In , archaeologists working in Lumbini found evidence of a tree shrine that predated other Buddhist shrines by some years, providing new evidence that Buddha was probably born in the 6th century B. Siddhartha "he who achieves his aim" Gautama grew up the son of a ruler of the Shakya clan. His mother died seven days after giving birth.
A holy man, however, prophesied great things for the young Siddhartha: He would either be a great king or military leader or he would be a great spiritual leader. To protect his son from the miseries and suffering of the world, Siddhartha's father raised him in opulence in a palace built just for the boy and sheltered him from knowledge of religion, human hardship and the outside world.
According to legend, he married at the age of 16 and had a son soon thereafter, but Siddhartha's life of worldly seclusion continued for another 13 years.
The prince reached adulthood with little experience of the world outside the palace walls, but one day he ventured out with a charioteer and was quickly confronted with the realities of human frailty: He saw a very old man, and Siddhartha's charioteer explained that all people grow old. Questions about all he had not experienced led him to take more journeys of exploration, and on these subsequent trips he encountered a diseased man, a decaying corpse and an ascetic.
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