Last night, I saw the YouTube video on the FB which was posted by my friend , SB. She is a staunch Buddhist and she do a lot of charity work for her temple. I say syabas to her for sharing the video. After that, I went to YouTube and download all the 5 segments for all of you. I watch all the five parts last night and I was quite impressed with the recording.
The video starts with the life of the Buddha since birth and how his mother die after he was given birth in the Himalayas mountains and his father was a chieftain among the tribes. He grown up in the palace and have good life and all the pleasures of power. His father kept him from the misery of the outside world until he was a grown up man. At birth, the wise men have predicted that he will either be a good leader or a great teacher and that was the reason, the father restrict his movement to be in the palace.
When he was old enough, he was restless and he wants to know the true meaning of life and once day, he escape out from the palace and could see the suffering outside the palace. He kept wondering out of the palace until one day, he wants to go far to search for the truth meaning of life.
The video showed how he practice the different forms of meditation and almost die from an extreme form of meditation to search for the truth. One day, he saw a sitar player , tuning his guitar and he notice that the sitar player do not let the strings too loose or too tight and only in the balance and the sitar will let out good music. He finally realized that we should not torture our body to the extreme and we only follow the middle path in search for truth.
The video goes on to show how he attained enlightenment and how the internal demons came out to disturb him and how he prevail and gain enlightenment in his thirties and how he spend the rest of his 40 years to spread the dharma and the tools to attain the truth. The basic of the Buddhist philosophy is the four noble truth which ends suffering. Buddhism is an art of living and not a religion and by keeping our mind in clarity and mindfulness, we will enjoy eternal happiness and free of suffering. There is no God in Buddhism and we believe that our mind is our Universe and one of the many Universe. New Universe are created all the time and this principle co-incite with the Big Bang theory.
A good insight into Buddhism from a journalist view and we will have a basic understanding of Buddhism if we watch the video. Don't miss it and see whether what impact it will be on you. The video is like a treasured painting hanging on the wall, if it is fated that you will own it, the time will come and it will be yours. Don't force yourself to accept it, analyse it and test it to get its real truth.
Namaste.
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