He sat down under a tree and think
about it, thought: "Are
there all creatures
kill each other?"
However, to prevent prince from
becoming a renouncer, his
father provided him with many luxuries and pleasures. Hundreds of beauties offer
excellent singing dancers are
selected to serve
the prince.
His father
also conducted
a marriage between him and the princess from neighbor country
(Yosodhara).
Hoping the warm of love would make him stay in the throne.
Thirteen
years
after the wedding, he lived happy life in velvet, carefree, oblivious to all the
suffering and
unhappiness in life.
But, as a young man, he once went on a
series of four
chariot rides where he first saw the more severe forms of human
suffering: old
age, illness, and death (a corpse), as well as an ascetic renouncer. The
contrast between his life and this human suffering made him realize that
all
the pleasures on earth were in fact transitory, and could only mask
human
suffering.
At that time, his wife just gave
birth to his son. He
said: "One
problem has been born, a
binding has occurred."
And then, with a
heavy
heart because
of injury
beings immersed in the
sea of misery; one night, after a final look
to the room where
his wife and beloved
baby were
fell in sleep.
He rode his horse with his servant and left the castle.
Then
he told his servant to turn back and gave an apology to his father when
he
began the life of renouncer.
He found a nice
and cool
parcel of land, a small
river running through the
white sands. Recently,
there was a small village where
he could go begging for food every day.
It
was a quiet, beautiful, very
suitable for contemplation and
meditation practice.
Finally, He
did
it and became the first Buddha at that time. The title Buddha
Gautama, the Buddha Sakyamuni is
the world
honored since.
He
along with five fellow
practitioners for 6 years, and persist ascetic mortification.
His body looked
like the dry bones thin,
deep-set eyes
down, declining
health
as he no
longer going
strong anymore.
He
saw clearly,
asceticism, mortification not the path
out of
suffering and relieves suffering.
He decided to eat normally
again. His five fellow
practitioners, who put their faith
and hope absolute him,
thought that he was
daunting and left him alone. He committed
himself to strive to realize the truth
of Ultimate.
After
making a decision to spread the moral which relieve the suffering of the
world, The Buddha set out to Benares.
Here, at
the Deer
Park near Benares, the
Buddha first preached his old five
fellow practitioners.
Buddha
opened with advice monks should not get into two
extremes: one extreme is lifestyle of sensual indulgence and a second
extreme asceticism,
mortification because it makes mental fatigue, mental confusion, which
is
harmful, useless. The Buddha advised to leave the two extremes, followed
the Middle
Way and the Middle Way leading to purity of life, mental clarity and
ultimate
liberation.
In 45 years, the
Buddha visited many places to preach.
When
he was 80 years old and on the way from Rajagriha Vaisali
to Shravasti, he was ill and knew that his passing will last three
months later.
He continued his journey until
he reached Pava, where he was
seriously ill.
Many men, women,
elderly, youth, children gathered up in
the woods Sala to express reverence,
sorrow and farewell
to the Buddha for his last time
in the world. And then the Buddha
entered Nirvana after the
completion of the work of a
teacher's greatest
The
Buddhism however continued to expand what Buddha taught. Now, Buddhism
has their own community that spread around the world today.
THE END
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