Main Buddhist Articles Index, Diary Events, Buddhist Articles, Buddhist Quotes page, Buddhist Masters, Buddhist Centres, Buddhist Practices, Buddhist Peace Prayers Practical Intention to Become Enlightened - The Six Perfections and the Three Trainings of BodhisattvaĪ Guide to Approaches to Enlightenment by Tathang Tulku - The Nine YanasĪlso, if you are interested in Teachings of the Buddha Buddhism be sure to check out our related pages: Mindfulness, Awareness & Wakefulness - Excerpts from Diamond Mind, By Rob Nairn THE THREE BENEFITS IN LEARNING BUDDHISM - Dharma talk by Lian Shengīuddha, The Four Noble Truths & The Eightfold path So you are awakened from the ego-illusion and all that goes with it." Rob Nairn When you awake to the fact that that all is part of the illusion of egocentricity, you are free from that illusion. This is because your Buddha-nature, your enlightened awareness, is masked by a the sleep of ignorance, greed, and hatred. The analogy that is often used is that the non-enlightened state is like being asleep. Awakened to all the illusions and freed from them. "The Buddha was often referred to as the Awakened One. " Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einsteinīuddhism has been called the science of the mind. The buddha nature is simply the birthright of every sentient being, and I always say: “Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.” He never claimed divinity, he merely knew he had the buddha nature, the seed of enlightenment, and that everyone else did too. He continued to sit under the tree, with immense resolve, and vowed not to get up until he had found the truth.Īt dusk, it is said, he conquered all the dark forces of delusion and early the next morning, as the planet Venus broke in the dawn sky, the man was rewarded for his age-long patience, discipline, and flawless concentration by achieving the final goal of human existence: enlightenment.Īt that sacred moment, the earth itself shuddered, as if “drunk with bliss,” and, as the scriptures tell us: “No one anywhere was angry, ill or sad no one did evil, none was proud the world became quite quiet, as though it had reached full perfection.” This man became known as Buddha.īuddha was a human being, like you or me. More than twenty-five hundred years ago, a man who had been searching for the truth for many, many lifetimes came to a quiet place in northern India and sat down under a tree.
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