Around 560 BC, was born in Kapilavasthu (in ancient India, now Nepal) Siddhartha Gautama, crown prince of the Shakya clan, from which derive their appellation Shakyamuni ( sage of the Shakya). Having lived a life full of luxuries and pleasures deprived of contact with the sad things of life, was found in three successive trips by the limits of the royal gardens, with scenes of him previously unknown, that reverberated deep inside an old man, a sick, weak, thin and worn by his relatives died. Knowing that his lineage is not isolated from these misfortunes (Old age, sickness, death), he realized the futility of spending on luxuries and pleasures of life and wanted to find a way to escape such trials. The image of an ascetic, who lead a life of renunciation of material things and mastering their passions, wandering in search of truth inspired him and so he abandoned his wealth and his future throne and left for a cure for sickness, old age and death.
For six years he learned the teachings of the great spiritual teachers of the time and continued to practice extreme self-mortification. Realizing that I had not find the answers or be free from suffering, left extreme practices, and sitting under a fig tree East meditated to attain supreme transcendent wisdom, watching before images of their former existences, beings to commit acts and receiving the effects of their actions, born, growing, aging and dying over and over again in different ways of existence, dragged by the force of their actions, their desires, their ignorance, their passions. Had thirty-five years of age, after an intense effort and eventually became a Buddha, ie, a wake, an Enlightened. During
forty-five years following his teachings spread, exposing the laws discovered adapting his words as his audience, leaving an excellent example and a guide to mankind, which was the basis for what we now know the name of Buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama
is the name that is known to the founder of Buddhism. The word Buddha is used not only for the founder of Buddhism, but to any person who has achieved enlightenment. Means "awakening" or "know." It is also known as Shakyamuni ("sage of the Shakya clan") (not to be confused with Hotei, the so-called Smiling Buddha). He was born around the year 652 BC in Kapilavastu, a village in the Nepalese Terai at the foot of the Himalayas. His father, Suddhodana Gotama, was a minor noble. His mother was Maya-devi. According to legend, when Buddha was born blind their sight, the deaf and dumb spoke and celestial music filled the world. Maya died shortly after birth and small Siddhartha was raised by his aunt Pradjapati.Los early life of Prince Siddhartha spent entirely unrelated to any spiritual activity. According to legend, shortly after his birth he was visited by the Brahmin Asita, an ascetic of great reputation for wisdom and for his ability to interpret omens. Brahmin sage had predicted that Siddhartha would become a world leader or a religious teacher, which shocked his father Suddhodana he wanted his son follow in his footsteps and one day succeed him as king. He thought the best way to avoid the tendency to religiosity was to prevent any experience with the bitter side of life, so he created around a bubble wrap made of pleasure and without any contact with the realities of life . Siddhartha grew up in his father's palace surrounded by luxury and comfort. When he reached adolescence Yashodhara married his cousin, with whom he had a son, Siddhartha began to gnaw Rahula.A curiosity about how things were in the outside world and asked permission from his father to fulfill his desire. Suddhodana agreed, but prepare for the end of ordering his son cleared the streets of any vision that might offend the conscience of the prince overprotected. However, their careful arrangements failed, as Siddhartha, acclaimed by the crowd on its way through the streets, could not help noticing the pain in its most agudas.El discovery of old age, sickness and death was traumatic for Siddhartha . He realized that he too was subject to the same fate suffered by all men and their mood became somber. In a new exit to the outside, the prince saw an ascetic, a mendicant monk, and was so impressed by the peaceful character of this man, and for his dignified demeanor despite her ragged clothes, who suspected the beggar had made a sort of pact with old age, sickness and death. Decided to also adopt it, the life of the monks mendicantes.Siddhartha left home, leaving behind his wife and son, at age 30. Jumped into the world with a shaved head and dressed in rags themselves of an ascetic, without money or property of any clase.Aprendió two important things: first, that meditation and concentration did not lead to total liberation, but needed something more, and second, that at a certain moment, no teacher was able to teach anything else. Siddhartha went determined not to keep looking for external sources wisdom, but to find within himself the power that flowed into the end of his journey corazón.Al Siddhartha walked sorry to sit under the shade of a fig tree of India, called Bo or Bodhi tree (fig tree, ficus religiosa), considered the tree of ciencia.La culmination of his thoughts came when he realized that he had already been freed permanently from all passion, to the point that we no longer weighed upon him the illusion of self, your true self was beyond the dualities of pain-pleasure, time and space, life and death. He realized that never again reborn, who had broken the eternal turning of the Wheel Life. This was the nirvana.Siddhartha awoke from his meditations become Buddha, "The Awakened", "Enlightened One." The lighting was in a place called Bodhgaya, in the Indian state of Bihar. The Buddha continued to sit under the Bodhi tree (fig tree, ficus religiosa) for some time, enjoying the solitude of Gautama said liberación.Siddhartha died around 486 a. AD, at 80 years of age. The cause was food poisoning that caused vomiting, bleeding, severe pain, according to testimony, endured with great fortitude. Finally, he lay in a grove of mango Kushinagara, about 175 kilometers northwest of Patna. There, surrounded by his disciples, reached the eternal peace of complete extinction, the paranirvana, a state that only accepts those who have attained nirvana in their lifetime.
For six years he learned the teachings of the great spiritual teachers of the time and continued to practice extreme self-mortification. Realizing that I had not find the answers or be free from suffering, left extreme practices, and sitting under a fig tree East meditated to attain supreme transcendent wisdom, watching before images of their former existences, beings to commit acts and receiving the effects of their actions, born, growing, aging and dying over and over again in different ways of existence, dragged by the force of their actions, their desires, their ignorance, their passions. Had thirty-five years of age, after an intense effort and eventually became a Buddha, ie, a wake, an Enlightened. During
forty-five years following his teachings spread, exposing the laws discovered adapting his words as his audience, leaving an excellent example and a guide to mankind, which was the basis for what we now know the name of Buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama
is the name that is known to the founder of Buddhism. The word Buddha is used not only for the founder of Buddhism, but to any person who has achieved enlightenment. Means "awakening" or "know." It is also known as Shakyamuni ("sage of the Shakya clan") (not to be confused with Hotei, the so-called Smiling Buddha). He was born around the year 652 BC in Kapilavastu, a village in the Nepalese Terai at the foot of the Himalayas. His father, Suddhodana Gotama, was a minor noble. His mother was Maya-devi. According to legend, when Buddha was born blind their sight, the deaf and dumb spoke and celestial music filled the world. Maya died shortly after birth and small Siddhartha was raised by his aunt Pradjapati.Los early life of Prince Siddhartha spent entirely unrelated to any spiritual activity. According to legend, shortly after his birth he was visited by the Brahmin Asita, an ascetic of great reputation for wisdom and for his ability to interpret omens. Brahmin sage had predicted that Siddhartha would become a world leader or a religious teacher, which shocked his father Suddhodana he wanted his son follow in his footsteps and one day succeed him as king. He thought the best way to avoid the tendency to religiosity was to prevent any experience with the bitter side of life, so he created around a bubble wrap made of pleasure and without any contact with the realities of life . Siddhartha grew up in his father's palace surrounded by luxury and comfort. When he reached adolescence Yashodhara married his cousin, with whom he had a son, Siddhartha began to gnaw Rahula.A curiosity about how things were in the outside world and asked permission from his father to fulfill his desire. Suddhodana agreed, but prepare for the end of ordering his son cleared the streets of any vision that might offend the conscience of the prince overprotected. However, their careful arrangements failed, as Siddhartha, acclaimed by the crowd on its way through the streets, could not help noticing the pain in its most agudas.El discovery of old age, sickness and death was traumatic for Siddhartha . He realized that he too was subject to the same fate suffered by all men and their mood became somber. In a new exit to the outside, the prince saw an ascetic, a mendicant monk, and was so impressed by the peaceful character of this man, and for his dignified demeanor despite her ragged clothes, who suspected the beggar had made a sort of pact with old age, sickness and death. Decided to also adopt it, the life of the monks mendicantes.Siddhartha left home, leaving behind his wife and son, at age 30. Jumped into the world with a shaved head and dressed in rags themselves of an ascetic, without money or property of any clase.Aprendió two important things: first, that meditation and concentration did not lead to total liberation, but needed something more, and second, that at a certain moment, no teacher was able to teach anything else. Siddhartha went determined not to keep looking for external sources wisdom, but to find within himself the power that flowed into the end of his journey corazón.Al Siddhartha walked sorry to sit under the shade of a fig tree of India, called Bo or Bodhi tree (fig tree, ficus religiosa), considered the tree of ciencia.La culmination of his thoughts came when he realized that he had already been freed permanently from all passion, to the point that we no longer weighed upon him the illusion of self, your true self was beyond the dualities of pain-pleasure, time and space, life and death. He realized that never again reborn, who had broken the eternal turning of the Wheel Life. This was the nirvana.Siddhartha awoke from his meditations become Buddha, "The Awakened", "Enlightened One." The lighting was in a place called Bodhgaya, in the Indian state of Bihar. The Buddha continued to sit under the Bodhi tree (fig tree, ficus religiosa) for some time, enjoying the solitude of Gautama said liberación.Siddhartha died around 486 a. AD, at 80 years of age. The cause was food poisoning that caused vomiting, bleeding, severe pain, according to testimony, endured with great fortitude. Finally, he lay in a grove of mango Kushinagara, about 175 kilometers northwest of Patna. There, surrounded by his disciples, reached the eternal peace of complete extinction, the paranirvana, a state that only accepts those who have attained nirvana in their lifetime.
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