Week 9 Reading Notes: The Life of Buddha - Reading B

 The Life of Buddha (by Andre Ferdinand Herold)


Siddhartha Becomes the Buddha

  • Siddhartha had left his home, becoming a hermit and experiencing other things
  • In meditation, S sees the awfulness of rebirth
  • He contemplates the reason for existing and has a waterfall of thoughts connecting existence to tires to desire to sensation to contact to the senses to name and form to perception to impression to ignorance
    • So he concludes ignorance is the root of death, old age, suffering, and despair
    • Concludes that leading a life of holiness will lead to suppression of desire and thus end the endurance of birth and suffering   
  • after this contemplation, Siddhartha was now Buddha
Siddhartha Deserted by His First Disciples
  • S decided to meditate by the Nairanjana
    • During this time, he stopped breathing because he was so engrossed in thoughts
    • The Gods thought him to be dead, and his mother, Maya, who now lived among the Gods came down to see him and wept and spread flowers over his body
  • As Maya scattered flowers, S awoke and told her he was fine and not to worry
  • Siddhartha remained at this river for 6 years, and sat in wind, sun, and rain
    • Villagers jeered and threw things at him but he did not acknowledge them
  • The daughter's of the head man of a nearby village brought S gifts of food, which he one day ate all that was offered because he was withering away
    • They continued to bring home food that he finished immediately
  • His 5 disciples began to doubt him, as he had not obtained true knowledge during this long period of meditation
    • And he had begun to receive abundant food from the nearby village
    • And so the disciples abandoned him
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