Buddha is not a god, a prophet or a messenger. He's just a normal human but thanks to the efforts themselves, open their own potentials and directly aware of the true nature of reality.

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More than five hundred years before Christ on the first full moon of the month calendar Vesakha India, Siddhartha Gautama He sat cross-legged under a lotus position under the Bodhi tree by the river Niranjana India, at a later This famous name Bodhgaya. Swear not get up until you see the path that he still desires search, Siddhartha deep in meditation. When the night had ended, he increasingly deeper into the nature of reality until the last moment, he had achieved complete and thorough awareness of the truth directly. When the morning star just rising in the East, his enlightenment was fulfilled and what not budge. Siddhartha became the Buddha, the Buddha from Sanskrit, means a fully enlightened. We should also know that Tibetans call him Shakyamuni, the name means 'saint of Shakya line'.

Buddha is not a god, a prophet or a messenger. He's just a normal human but thanks to the efforts themselves, open their own potentials and directly aware of the true nature of reality.

The entire Buddhist tradition exists is to experience and share the profound awareness to people about it.

Although the Buddha's enlightenment took place over a period of one night, spiritual struggle to achieve the goals that have spent years trying hard not stop. Buddhists believe that not only in this life at the time, but also in countless lifetimes before that, the Buddha has prepared the foundation for his insight into reality. Tibetan tradition has it that in countless aeons ago, a forerunner of the Buddha was born in a cow's body in hell and win sometimes to pull a car. He felt pity for the weak cows with his double win should have told the guy Alan Dama realm ruled that He was willing to pull his chariot. Alan angry guy killed him with a trident; at that moment, his consciousness is motivated by compassion was reborn in heaven Tam tam decade. There, he continued to accumulate merit undergone countless lives.

His book explains Siddhartha left the throne Prince and ascetic living life like. However, he did not see the ascetic path and order appropriate to undertake the pursuit of the truth of his own .

 

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Although denouncing austerity seems to be a failure, in fact it is a great victory of Siddhartha. He has overcome the very human tendency is always looking for ways to deny that he was well. Siddhartha had to let go of all that has been achieved during the ascetic, except that he was prepared to chart their own path in the pursuit of truth longing. He did not mention anything to lose all his disciples, he was not afraid to start over from the beginning, instead, he admitted he was confused, and continue their own queries.

Finally, after years of dreams and omens personality overnight got food, Siddhartha sat under a tree in Bodhgaya and spent a night in meditation. He vows to make a last attempt and vowed not to leave the place until the achievement of their pursuit of enlightenment. Tibetan art describes that moment with such great pictures coming artist of Buddha sitting on a haystack busa just beneath the spreading branches of an ancient sacred fig tree that later known as the Bodhi tree or tree of enlightenment. Around him in the direction across thousands of evil exhale menacing flames along the peculiar shape. There are demons Minister archery, bird names, or even break the mountains. Legend has it that Buddha Shakyamuni was confronted with Mara (a Buddhist term to personify impermanence and death, often called the Devil), along with an army of guys. Mara induce Buddha hoping he would give up his pursuit.

It is a symbol of the difficulties that every individual will encounter on the path to enlightenment. The temptation was a symbol of fear, suspicion, and longing back to the pleasures and worldly purposes. But the Buddha did not pay attention to their performances ma; and, all things considered only the illusion of magic, he never showed fear ghost army. Tier University Dr Buddha was about to accumulate merit and powerful enough to overcome all temptations. When the arrow, and all the flaming arrows again, touching his aura, they immediately turn into flowers and fall to the ground exhausted description. Buddha continued meditation posting confidential. Then Mara tactical and try to caress the Buddha. Mara convened a group of female ghost ordered them to dance dances very sexy. But the Buddha continued to meditate: not something to convince him to leave the chosen path. Finally, Mara had accepted his Buddha under the Bodhi tree.

 The temptation to Buddha

Many texts recounting this story; Mara recalled the Buddha tried to seduce the Prince received his mission, how the Buddha defeated the army of ghosts and make them afraid with flaming sword like; we read the legend on the ground he put his hand up Prithivi land called god to witness to him how. Traditional Tibetan Yamantaka that he won by demonic appearance of the body Yamantaka half red half black; There are also other Tibetan texts tell the story that the Buddha left side of the river Niranjana flesh and the body is in heaven Akanisha France, where he entered the realm Mahamudra Diamonds. Obviously, these stories are just the mystical way to express what happened. The truth is that the Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree alone and no man saw what was really happening. The story was, as well as story of Jesus being tempted on a mountain, just the icon shows the stages of enlightenment and the obstacles that anyone will have the day to yourself to overcome.

 Siddhartha attained enlightenment

After forty-nine days of meditation posting confidential, Siddhartha reached the final awakening as the result of the prince went asceticism became Buddha - Exalted. The realization of Buddha Shakyamuni about the ultimate truth of absolute reality was opened under the hierarchical like a blooming lotus flower garlands gradually each layer. The first tier is a kind of calm reflection and detachment, in which the practitioner happy and peaceful, but just the usual sense of abandon (Ly birth bliss). In the next step, the Buddha Sakyamuni become no problems with vibrations of the mind and thoughts are transformed to enter a state of peace and joy deeper (The birth bliss) . At Level Tuesday, he reached a joy greater clarity (Ly wedding bliss) until he entered the ranks fourth and last level of the unconscious, where, joy and faded, only leave a line of utmost peace of mind and clarity that can directly perceive reality (Discharge pure concept).

Four floors of consciousness opening was prepared to Buddha Shakyamuni aware of the floor unconscious. Level of awareness that first occurred in a soup (from 6 pm to 10 pm) when he naturally remembers all past lives, what the Buddhists call Additional intelligent network. He recalled tens of thousands of past life as a whole rose that lives in every detail. Everyone has memories of detail that they blocked somewhere in his mind. We can see people being hypnotized recounts the life of a cough. Sometimes they raised the event that we can verify through public records. Again, once when I knelt at the foot of his master, he Sai Baba in India, I saw my past life pass before him as a fast spinning reels. The truth is that everyone can reach the trance that Buddha Shakyamuni, as well as the position before him and after he has revealed to us. Buddha Shakyamuni's just a man. Some Buddhists, said some of his previous life was recounted in stories  Jataka  belonging to the Pali canon. Shakyamuni Buddha of this era, Kali Yuga time (era decadence classically Brahmin); before he had Dipankara Buddha (Buddha Dipankara); and such great era of enlightenment followed by Maitreya Buddha (Buddha Maitreya). You have reached enlightenment when they moved away from the line of life and death and no need to regenerate. However, Buddha Shakyamuni has decided to return to the live stream to teach mankind the truth of liberation, as Buddha Dipankara had such a decision; as Maitreya will make that decision in the coming century.

 Compassion of the Buddha

Buddha Shakyamuni is full of heart when he saw beings're caught in the cycle of birth and death is never at rest. As the night advanced to the second watch (from 10 pm to 2 am the next day), he has to penetrate a different perception, is the Buddhist God called intelligent labels. The capacity of perception and the understanding of his super Vietnam expansion that saw him know directly about any size and existing realms. He saw not only the world of human beings to circulate among men, heaven and hell, but he also saw all the realms of A-tu-la, peta, animal. In all his realm, he saw all beings themselves cause suffering for themselves by their own actions. Christians are well aware of similar things in the teachings of Jesus, "the people who reap what sow".

In Buddhism, the law of cause and effect are called now. Law balance is now explained in the texts of Hinduism. In the operation of the principle of natural law, by thought and action, every sentient beings who are casting for its own part number. Any action that people are also put into motion in return for that person as the starting point of the act's like a cycle of events. That is the ultimate justice and career of a man who followed them from one life to another until you have met or are metabolized in terms of consciousness. Buddha Shakyamuni clear the eternal law and expose feel pity for all beings to float forever in the process around him without knowing why and did not know how to out.

In the third watch (from 2 pm to 6 am), Buddha Shakyamuni reached absolute awareness and absolute enlightenment. For him, now has lost its object, because it is like France, is absolutely legal. He enlightenment attained can not speak the language because it is beyond language, form, or even more ideas. France may know, but never fully expressed, even by the Buddha. The enlightened including a perfect peace, joy and a clear understanding can not be shaken when you get to experience the absolute truth. It's fun unlimited, infinite bliss and infinite compassion.

The moment completely breached ignorance moment coincides with sunrise at 6am. Siddhartha had defeated all the forces of Mara, was found to be filled through self delusion and have to clear all the defilements of the mind. The battle was completely finished; He was aware of supreme bliss, forever; like he saw the sun rising over the horizon in the morning, he was fully awake from the night of the soul. Not only glimpse the truth, he has truly become one with Truth. Now he is a Buddha.

 What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is described most clearly as a state of being rather than a cognitive penetrating into the body. From the perspective of wisdom, it was the realization penetrated directly into the nature of reality and the truth. It is not an understanding with the intellectual character that is a harmony one with the truth. With the Enlightenment, there was a liberation from ignorance, anxiety, sadness, and every misfortune. And, can be regarded as a bonus, we experience a trance of pure existence. This state is a real possibility for anyone who has been sinhra in the body. Known as the "liberated soul", Buddhists of all sects are pursuing the same goals. Buddhists call the state can not describe it, is beyond existence and non-existence, where all greed, ignorance, misery have been eradicated, is Nirvana. This state can be achieved both in this life and after death.

From Nirvana literally means extinguished, fire symbolizes greed, hatred, and ignorance has been extinguished. First of all, Nirvana is the end, the end of the cycle of reincarnation and is the ultimate liberation of all suffering. This concept is difficult for Westerners to grasp, because at first listen, it seems like the destruction of all that we perceive as valuable. That seems to say that we are free to destroy us from suffering; who committed suicide in the action center close to the most selfish.

Things that Buddha Shakyamuni described like mystical experience that mankind has ever described in every age and in every culture. For example, the Greek philosopher Plato lâ of neo Plotinus experienced a fusion of his soul with God. He told us that everything was all that everything is one. Many other Western philosophers argue that what we call "I" is not the "I" true, and at certain times, we can get a glimpse of a "I" greater. Some mystics call the Infinite, Essence, or the universe is God or the soul of the Universe. But the idea is similar to the view of the Buddha Sakyamuni can be found in the philosophy of Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Kant, and Kierkegaard. In particular, the great accomplishments of Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) in his perception of the intrinsic dignity of the human conscience which he is standing on all spirits, and is the source of all things, Schopenhauer truth was discovered independently. Likewise, the Christian mystical Angelus Silesius (1624 - 1677) compared the merger to infinity as a drop of water becomes one with the ocean, "Every drop of water into the sea when it flows out sea, just as the soul final flourish and become God. "

 The description in the poetry of the Buddha's enlightenment

Epic  Light of Asia  by Edwin Arnold aims to present the life of the Buddha as understood by the Southern Buddhists, also described the same way a religion similar to:

At Nirvana, He is a Life.

But he does not live at the same time.

But strangely, he is constantly present.

Om mani padme hum!

Morning dew luminous slide into the sea!

 

Similarly, the set of Hindu scriptures Upanishads describe Atma (State falls), is considered a spiritual reality of human existence above and outside the body, mind, and mind. Ingredients essence that can integrate with Brahman (the Great falls, or supreme soul Universe), is the result of self-awareness or equal to the enlightenment of the Buddha Sakyamuni. The current Hindu saint, Sai Baba him, saying, " Whom always conquer selfishness, lust and win their own benefit, to destroy every planet impulses gas and Wildlife man and give up the natural tendency to consider the body as the self, he is clearly on the path of dharma. He said that the goal of teaching is the integration of the waves on the sea, the integration of the self into the superego "(Quote  Dharma Vahini , page 4), and, " We are only a shadow of my consciousness upstream, and basically, we are not an individual, but the Supreme Consciousness that ".

Such ideas are always located in the heart of the Eastern mysticism, and Buddhism can be very difficult for Westerners to grasp. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the mystical stressed that his integration is the integration with God brings a personality. Despite the presence of God in heaven and in the human soul, He also transcends this world. But in the Eastern religions, with the emphasis that the mystical experience is a unified whole with God. Buddhism does not believe in a god creative independence, but as we can see, the truth is that Buddha Shakyamuni revealed to us, in essence, similar to what is at the core of most other religions and philosophies.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTHFOLD PATH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/4/2015.