Gautam

Truth.8

I am not Buddhist nor worship him....just  a teacher that I respect him ...read with open heart....than you know him....
p/s: Gautam never reject God nor talk about god.....he just do not want humans to preoccupied with God all the times but lacking in good moral life...that is reason he was in earth to teach the moral teachings....good teacher i would says...



Before dying, the  Buddha gavehis last sermon. This last sermon had eight main points:
1) The more desires    one has, the more they will suffer. Our mere existence is suffering. In our    life we distinguish pleasure from suffering and tend to cling    to pleasure. This is our inherent nature. But suffering is inseparable from    pleasure, for one is never found without the other. Therefore, the more we    seek pleasure    and avoid suffering, the more entangled we become in the duality of pleasure    and suffering.
    2) Be content with our state of being. If we are not satisfied with our    state of being we will be slaves to the five desires which stem from the    five senses.
    3) When the self and the external world become one, eternal serenity is enjoyed.    Forget the self, forget others. Become one with no barrier between the self  and the outside world.
  4) Without any interruption, practice meditation. Meditation includes not only  sitting. Every moment of one's life is meditation. This means to experience  the oneness of    yourself,    time, and place.
    5) Do    not forget what the Buddha taught. As Buddha was dying, he told his disciples  to forget about him and his belongings. The important thing was to remember  his teachings.
  6) When we enter samadhi and understand impermanence, we are unshaken.    Everything is constantly changing, including ourselves.
    7) Nonattachment is the essential wisdom. Because all existence is fleeting,    attachment to them is wasteful.
    8) When we reach enlightenment we and the world become one, and there isno duality.



In this first         stage he saw each of his previous existences, and then understood the         chain of cause and effect. In the second he surveyed the death and rebirth         of all living beings and understood the law that governs the cycle of         birth and death. In the third he identified the Four         Noble Truths: the universality of suffering, the cause of suffering         through selfish desire, the solution to suffering and the way to overcome         suffering. This final point is called the Noble Eightfold Path, this being         eight steps consisting of wisdom (right views, right intention) ethics         (right speech, right action, right livelihood), mental discipline (right         effort, right mindfulness, right concentration), which ultimately lead         to liberation from the source of suffering.
      When day         came, Gautama had attained perfect illumination, and had become a Buddha.         The rays emanating from his body shone to the boundaries of space. He         stayed in meditation for seven more days, and then for four more weeks         he stayed by the tree. Through his process of enlightenment he discovered         that all sentient beings in this universal life possess buddhahold, and         all are future potential buddhas.

to read further, go here:http://www.souledout.org/wesak/storybuddha.html

Sephiroth

Who's Gautam? Oh, I think you mean Gautama (with an A at the back).

Truth.8

Sephiroth posted on 13-4-2013 02:28 PM
Who's Gautam? Oh, I think you mean Gautama (with an A at the back).

I normally call him Gautam...

If we are not satisfied with our    state of being

now, this what I normally says.....always we should be thankful for what we have....

to me, when i wake  from bed...is like ' sedekah" because i still can live ....
even we have 10 cents in our pocket...thankful to Divine

Sephiroth

by Truth.8

I normally call him Gautam...

And I normally call you a Muslim lapdog. But that could not be proper if I start referring to you as one everyday, right? Go and learn to refer to people by their proper name. Gautama's true name is Gautama Siddharta. If you cannot even do that, just use the word Buddha. That could be enough.

[qoute] to me, when i wake  from bed...is like ' sedekah" because i still can live ....
even we have 10 cents in our pocket...thankful to Divine  [/qoute]

You have the same mentality of a beggar in the street.