tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:43:33 +0000Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age.http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger35125en-usnoBuddha,World,Buddha,EnlightenedBuddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age.Buddha World - The Enlightened Onerajabarua91@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-2542384694521448670Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:31:00 +00002013-11-06T05:57:42.728-08:00 Now the Buddha wanted to tell other people how to become wise, good and do service for others. He thought, "Now Asita, Alara and Uddaka are dead but my friends Kondanna, Bhaddiya, Bappa, Mahanama and Assaji are in Benares. I must go there and talk to them." Then he set out for Benares, till at last he came to a grove where his five friends were. This grove at Sarnath was called the Deer http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/11/life-of-buddha-first-five-monks-19.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-5824150729841378061Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:15:00 +00002013-09-20T09:02:57.281-07:00 The Buddha cannot be Fathomed      Whose conquest (of passion) is not turned into defeat, no conquered (passion) of his in this world follows him - that trackless Buddha of infinite range, by which way will you lead him? Buddhas are dear to all      The wise ones who are intent on meditation, who delight in the peace of renunciation (i.e. Nibbana), http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-buddha-nature.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-7225896746071017451Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:24:00 +00002013-10-25T00:53:10.623-07:00 The Buddha was born as a human being. As a young prince, he was given the training required of a noble youth from the warrior clan. At the age of sixteen, he married his cousin, Yasodhara, who gave birth to his son, Rahula. After realizing  the universal suffering of sickness, old age and death which afflicted all beings, he decided to renounce at the age of 29 and went in search of the http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/10/was-buddha-human-being.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-3835492544922017602Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:58:00 +00002013-11-12T06:36:00.383-08:00 There are many misinterpretations regarding the appearance of the Buddha in this world. Many people cannot understand who the Buddha actually is because of his appearance, serenity, and towering wisdom and understanding. When they compare his rational views and his personality with other religious teachers, they find that he is unique in many ways and his teachings are different from what http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/who-is-buddha.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-8404632848548214952Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:54:00 +00002013-09-20T09:54:46.660-07:00   Under the Bodhi Tree During the first week after enlightenment, the Buddha sat under the bodhi tree experiencing the happiness of freedom and peace. He was free from disturbing thoughts, calm and blissful. Gazing at the Tree During the second week, in thanks and gratitude to the tree that had sheltered him during his struggle for Buddhahood, the Buddha stood without moving his eyeshttp://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-seven-weeks-after.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-8471665092665463057Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:13:00 +00002013-09-20T09:13:32.857-07:00 The Buddha had withstood the worst attacks of Mara. Finally, the Evil One retreated and the terrible storm he had raised died away. Now the mind of the Blessed One relaxed into peace. The great darkness faded away and the full moon and stars reappeared again. The Lord passed into a deep meditation, passing beyond the limits of ordinary human understanding, seeing the world as it is, and not http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-sun-of-enlightenment.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-6206688176992190040Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:50:00 +00002013-09-20T09:03:20.349-07:00 In the evening after Sujata’s lovely meal, Gotama went to Gaya and looked for a suitable place to sit down and meditate. He found a banyan tree and sat on its east side, the side that was believed to be stable and free from trembles and quakes. After sitting cross-legged with his back towards thetree, he made this resolution: “Though my skin, my nerves and my bones shall waste away and my life http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-striving-for.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-4142822132857325236Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:12:00 +00002013-09-20T04:12:23.378-07:00 Now at the time, in a nearby village called Senani, there lived a young, very beautiful and rich girl called Sujata, who wanted a husband of equal rank and a son. She had waited for many years and she was not successful. The people told her that she must go to certain banyan tree near the Neranjarariver and pray to the tree-god to give her a husband and son. She did as the people told her and http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-golden-bowl-15.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-4446504144054525706Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:07:00 +00002013-09-20T04:45:15.793-07:00 After leaving his second teacher, Uddaka, Prince Siddhartha was known as Ascetic Gotama. He met five friends—Kondanna, Bhaddiya, Vappa, Mahanama and Assaji—who had also left the palace and a life of luxury to become ascetics, or students of life, living poorly. They went to Uruvela and for six years Gotama struggled and tortured his body while his five friends supported and looked after him. http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-six-years-of-searching-14.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-7366857850482475184Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:00:00 +00002013-09-20T04:00:06.058-07:00 At this time in India there were many religious teachers. One of the best and most well known was Alara Kalama. Ascetic Gotama went to study under him. He stayed and was taught many things, including meditation. He worked hard and eventually equalled his teacher in learning. Finally Alara Kalama could not teach Gotama any more and he said, “You are the same as I am now. There is no difference http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-buddhas-first-teachers-13.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-7357956159189905250Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:55:00 +00002013-09-20T03:55:28.744-07:00 From the Anoma River, dressed as a beggar, the young prince wandered from place to place. Eventually he came to Rajagaha City, where King Bimbisara lived. With his begging bowl in his hands Siddhartha walked round the streets begging for food from door to door like any other religious monk. People began to call him “Sakyamuni” or sage of the Sakyas, others called him “Ascetic” or “Ascetic http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-king-bimbisaras-offer-12.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-7983865966396264903Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:05:00 +00002013-09-19T08:05:56.786-07:00 The king, Siddhartha’s father, arranged a grand dinner and dance for the prince to celebrate the birth of Rahula. Invited were the best dancers, singers and musicians in the country. It was not just out of joy that the king arranged the celebration. He could see that the prince was depressed and that his new baby son was not giving him happiness. The king was afraid Siddhartha was planning to http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-prince-leaves-home-11.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-1098009545042329201Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:36:00 +00002013-09-19T07:36:14.832-07:00 After many days of contemplation and distress, Siddhartha visited the city for the fourth time. As he was driving to the park he saw a happy man wearing an orange coloured robe. He asked Channa, “Who is this man wearing an orange robe? His hair is shaved off. Why does he look so happy? How does he live and what does he do for a living?” “That is a monk.” replied Channa, “He lives in a temple,http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-four-sights-monk-10.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-2151779919929893604Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:10:00 +00002013-09-19T07:10:03.758-07:00 On returning to the palace after seeing the sick man, Siddhartha was very dissatisfied and depressed and was often seen in deep thought. The king, seeing him so changed, became very sad. Soon enough, the prince asked again for the king’s permission to leave the palace to learn more of life in the city. The king agreed, as he knew there was nothing to gain by trying to stop his son. This time,http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-four-sights-death-9.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-1371675019083248923Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:41:00 +00002013-09-19T02:41:06.955-07:00 The king very unwillingly allowed the prince to visit the city a second time. He thought it would do no good to try to stop him, and would only add to his confusion and unhappiness. On his second visit to the city the king did not warn the people to be ready or to prepare the streets. The prince and Channa dressed up as young men from noble families so the people would not know them. When http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-four-sights-sickness-8.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-3222168889311150799Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:44:00 +00002013-09-19T01:44:26.221-07:00 The king did everything he could think of to ensure his son Prince Siddhartha would grow up prepared for a life following in his own footsteps and become a king. He ordered a high wall to be built around the palace, including its parks and gardens, but the prince was not happy living like a prisoner. One day he told his father, “I must go out of the palace gate and see how other people live.” http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-four-sights-old-age-7.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-2953033216030499664Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:27:00 +00002013-09-19T06:52:26.701-07:00 The five wise men who were at Prince Siddhartha’s naming ceremony not only predicted the great future of the new prince, but had given the king a warning. “When your son sees a sick man, an old man, a dead body and a monk, he will want to leave the palace and become a monk himself,” they had said. These words worried the king. He became afraid that this son would see these four sights and http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-prince-siddharthas-wife-6.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-3371111712844524612Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:15:00 +00002013-09-18T11:15:32.895-07:00 Prince Siddhartha was very kind to people, animals and other living things. He was also a very brave horseman and won many prizes in the country. Although he did not have to suffer any hardships and difficulties, as he had everything, he always thought of the poor people and living things who were working hard to make him happy. He felt sorry for them and wanted to make them happy too. One http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-prince-siddharthas.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-2813040992523688916Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:05:00 +00002013-09-18T11:05:15.131-07:00 On the seventh day after his birth, Prince Siddhartha’s mother died. The king had another queen, who was called Prajapati Gotami. She was the younger sister of Queen Maha Maya, and she had given birth to a son on the same day that Queen Maha Maya died. Prajapati Gotami gave her own son to a nurse and brought up Prince Siddhartha, whom she loved very much, as her own son. Prince Siddhartha couldhttp://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-princes-education-4.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-5242879140215668112Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:48:00 +00002013-09-18T09:50:12.650-07:00 King Suddhodana had an old teacher who was known to be very wise. He was called Asita the Sage. Asita lived in the jungle. While sitting one day he heard the devas singing and saw them dancing. “Why are you so happy?” he asked. “Because the most excellent of all beings has been born at Lumbini Park to Queen Maha Maya,” replied the devas. When he heard this, Asita went quickly to see the king http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/life-of-buddha-naming-ceremony-3.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-4953995108664349374Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:14:00 +00002013-09-18T23:17:13.770-07:00 About ten months after her dream of a white elephant and the sign that she would give birth to a great leader, Queen Maya was expecting her child. One day she went to the king and said, “My dear, I have to go back to my parents. My baby is almost due.” Since it was the custom in India for a wife to have her baby in her father’s house, the king agreed, saying, “Very well, I will make the http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/2life-of-buddha-birth-of-prince.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-7278969225258408724Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:40:00 +00002013-09-18T09:38:11.689-07:00 More than 2,500 years ago, there was a king called Suddhodana. He married a beautiful Koliyan princess named Maha Maya. The couple ruled over the Sakyas, a warrior tribe living next to the Koliya tribe, in the north of India, in what is now known as Nepal. The capital of the Sakya country was laid out across the foothills of the Himalayas and called Kapilavatthu. Qeen Maha Maya was the http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/1life-of-buddha-queen-maha-mayas-dream.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-2749371117116461811Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:36:00 +00002013-09-11T10:36:20.579-07:00 It is evident that Europe is changing very rapidly both economically and socially. Though this change is widely discussed in media, there’s another few changes that happens attracts very little attention. The change in demography, more particularly the growth of alternative religions is a one notable item. Sweden is no exception to this. Mainly due to the arrival of Diaspora/migrants as http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/buddhism-in-sweden-is-growing-fast.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-5919145466731741301Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:40:00 +00002013-09-11T09:40:19.130-07:00 Six Examples by Jay McDaniel A small but growing number Christians in the West are turning to Buddhism for spiritual guidance. Many are reading books about Buddhism, and some are also meditating, participating in Buddhist retreats, and studying under Buddhist teachers. They are drawn to Buddhism’s emphasis on “being present” in the present moment; to its recognition of the http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-are-christians-turning-to-buddhism.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782429590847504794.post-7540572064862032038Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:54:00 +00002013-09-07T10:54:08.646-07:00 During the 19th and 20th centuries, Buddhism responded to new challenges and opportunities that cut across the regional religious and cultural patterns that characterized the Buddhist world in the pre-modern period. A number of Buddhist countries were subjected to Western rule, and even those that avoided direct conquest felt the heavy pressure of Western religious, political, economic, http://buddhaworldbw.blogspot.com/2013/09/theravada-and-mahayana.html0rajabarua91@gmail.com (Unknown)