BUDDHA GAUTAMA - Master Buddha's Short History

BUDDHA GAUTAMA

Gautama Buddha's teachings can survive brilliantly in the face of various scientific advances. There are enough scientific discoveries to prove that the Buddha's Teachings of the past twenty-five centuries have been proved to have been properly described by the Buddha Gautama. It is also recognized by the famous scientist Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) who mentions "only Buddhism that can answer the needs of modern science .

The principles of the Buddha's core teachings of Love and Compassion [Maitri Karuna] have a revolutionary power to stimulate society with its environment toward goodness. Gautama Buddha's teaching is believed to be a doctrine that directs world peace with the sacred motto of Compassion and Love without distinction.

Gautama Buddha's universal teachings can thrive and be accepted by various cultures, as the successors of this Teachings are able to make adjustments in disseminating the Teach according to local culture and customs.

Master Buddha's Short History

King Suddhodana Gautama with his exquisite Ms. Dewi Mahamaya ruled the kingdom in Kapilawastu in the southern Himalayas with justice and wisdom. Although married for 20 years, but has not been blessed with a son. Until one night, Dewi Mahamaya dreamed of seeing a white elephant who for then consort and then pregnant.

According to the prevailing customs, the empress should give birth in the home of his parents, so that at the time of giving birth, go Mahamaya to the palace of his parents in the kingdom of Koliya. On the way, Dewi Mahamaya stopped to rest in Lumbini park. At the time of rest, his son was born.

Everyone was happy, even the heavens and the earth seemed to also welcome his joy over the birth of his son who fell during the month of Purnama Siddhi in Waisak month (Mahayana Buddhism version, 566 BC 8th day of the fourth month according to the lunar calendar. World Fellowship of Buddhist, May 623 BC).

On the fifth day of the Prince's birth, the king gave his son Siddhartha the name, which means 'to reach his goal'. Dewi Mahamaya died a week after giving birth to her son. Her sister, Dewi Mahaprajapati, was then handed over to the task and responsibility of raising and educating Prince Siddharta.

One day, Asita's ascetic who dwells in the mountains near the palace of the king Suddhodana notices the light that shines brightly in the palace and decides to visit the palace. The king welcomed Asita's ascetic while showing his son. As soon as he saw Prince Siddharta, Asita's ascetic wept and said, "Too bad, I am old, I will not receive the Buddha's teachings, oh!" (Buddha comes from Budh, meaning consciousness) Buddha means one who has reached consciousness perfect). The king was surprised and asked for further explanation from Asita's ascetic who added, "Later he will leave the palace to go ascetic looking for perfect consciousness.Sam should be happy, because the Prince is the Gem of the World that is able to liberate beings from suffering He is the eternal light of the world that never go away ".

Asita's ascetic words make you uneasy day and night, for fear that her only son will leave the palace and become a hermit, wandering without shelter. For this you have chosen many servants to take care of Prince Siddhartha, so that his only son will enjoy this worldly life. All forms of suffering tried to be removed from Prince Siddhartha's life, such as sickness, old age, and death. So Prince only knows worldly pleasures.

In the Age of 7 years Prince Siddharta has studied various sciences. But Prince Siddharta was less interested in the lesson. Prince Siddharta inhabits three palaces, the spring palace, the rainy season and the transition. For 10 years the Prince Siddharta lived in worldly pleasures.

One day Prince Siddhartha asked for permission to walk outside the palace, where on different occasions he saw the Four Significant Conditions - the parents, the sick, the dead and the saints. So Prince Siddhartha grieved and asked himself, "What is the meaning of this life, if all will suffer sickness, old age and death, especially those who ask for help to those who do not understand, who both do not know and are bound by everything something of a temporary nature! ". Prince Siddhartha thought that only the holy life would give all of those answers.

Prince Siddhartha's inner turmoil continued until he was 29 years old, just as his only son Rahula was born. One night, Prince Siddhartha decided to leave his palace and accompanied by his coachman Canna. His determination has been unanimous to do the Great Release by living as a hermit.

In his wandering, the ascetic Gautama studied the ascetic exercises of the ascetic Bhagava and then deepened the ascetic ways of two other ascetics, namely the ascetic Alara Kalama and the Udraka Ramputra hermit. But after learning how to meditate from both teachers, still has not found the answer he wanted. So realize the ascetic Gautama that in such a way implies will not achieve the Perfect Enlightenment.

Then the ascetic Gautama left his two teachers and went to Magada to perform a tortured ascetic himself in the Uruwela forest, on the banks of the Nairanjana river that flows near the Gaya forest. Despite his six years of self-torture in the Uruwela forest, the Gautama ascetic still can not understand the nature and purpose of the hermitage.

One day the monk Gautama in his hermitage heard an old man advising his son on a boat that crossed the Nairanjana river by saying, "If the string is tightened, the voice will be higher, and if it is tightened, break the string, and the sound of the harp disappears. If this string of lyres is loosened, the voice will be lowered, and if it is too much, then the sound of the harp disappears."

The advice was very meaningful to the Gautama ascetic who finally decided to stop his tapanya and went to the river to bathe. His bone-dwelling body was barely able to sustain Gautama's ascetic body. A woman named Sujata gave Gautama a hermit a bowl of milk. His body felt very weak and death almost took his soul, but with a strong will of steel, the ascetic Gautama continued his samadhi under the Bodhi tree (Asetta) in the forest of Gaya, while pretending, "Though my blood dries up, my flesh rots, the bones are scattered, I will not leave this place until I reach the Perfect Enlightenment."

Feeling hesitant and hesitant over the ascetic Gautama, he almost despaired against the temptation of Mara, the devil's great devil. With a strong will of steel and with firm faith, finally Mara's temptation can be resisted and conquered. This occurs when the morning star shows itself on the eastern horizon. Now the ascetic Gautama became bright and clear, as bright as the dawn of dawn on the eastern horizon. The ascetic Gautama had attained the Perfect Enlightenment and became Samyaksam-Buddha [Sammasam-Buddha], just at the Purnama Raya moon in Waisak when he was 35 years old (according to Mahayana Buddhism version 531 BC on the 8th day of the 12th month, according to Lunar calendar version of WFB, in May of 588 BC). At the time of attaining the Perfect Enlightenment, of His body emits six Buddha rays [Buddharasmi] in a Blue color which means bhakti; Yellow means wisdom and knowledge; Red which means compassion and compassion; White has a sacred meaning; Orange means enterprising; and the fifth mixture of the rays.

After attaining the Perfect Enlightenment, the ascetic Gautama received a degree of perfection, among others: Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, Tathagata ('He Who Came', He Who Has Been '), Sugata (' The All-Knowing One '), Bhagava (' The Great ') etc. The five ascetics who accompanied him in the jungle of Uruwela were the first disciples of the Buddha who listened to the first sermon [Dharmacakra Pravartana / Dhammacakka Pavattana], where he described the Middle Way he found, the Eight Paths of Glory, including the beginning of his preaching that explains the Four Noble Truths.

Gautama Buddha traveled to spread the Dharma for forty-five years to mankind with compassion and affection until he reached the age of 80, where he knew that in three months he would be Parinibbana.

The Buddha in sickness lay between two Sala trees in Kusinagara, giving the last Dharma sermon to His disciples, then Parinibbana (version of Mahayana Buddhism, 486 BC on the 15th day of the 2nd month of the Lunar calendar WFB version in May, 543 BC).

The last Gautama Buddha Sermon contains a very deep meaning for His disciples, which include:

• Believe in yourself in developing the Teachings of the Buddha.

• Make the Buddha's Teaching (Dharma) a life of enlightenment.

• Everything does not last forever.

• The purpose of the Buddha's Teaching (Dharma) is to control the mind.

• The mind can make a person a Buddha, but the mind can be

make someone a beast.

• Should respect each other and be able to avoid any kind of dispute.

• When neglecting the Buddha's Teachings, it can mean having never met the Buddha.

• Mara (demons) and the desires of worldly lust are always looking for opportunities to deceive the human race.

• Death is only the destruction of the body.

• The true Buddha is not a human body, but the Perfect Enlightenment.