Prince Siddhartha

2,500 years ago this Earth planet was visited by one by the name of Prince Siddhartha, better known today as the historical Lord Buddha.

This merciful personality was deeply concerned with solving only one issue: the persistent and universal problem of human suffering. Nothing else consumed him. He could have stayed beneath the bodhi tree after he attained nirvana, like so many others before him, but no. He stood, and went to the deer park in Benares and began preaching his message. He spent the next fifty years of his life trying to help fellow humans to suffer less, to become happier, cheerful, serene and wise by using empirical methods that he himself had tried and had worked for him.

Today, billions have taken advantage of his causeless mercy and many 'little Buddhas' have carried forward his message for the benefit of all sentient beings. The mercy of Sri Buddha is so great, that one need not even believe in the supernatural. Anyone, no matter how disenchanted with religions, can take refuge in his pragmatic teachings and find solace in them. Having observed the universality of human suffering, he chose to exclude no one. This is the sign of a truly magnanimous being, a huge blessing to all the members of our race.

In a spirit of deep appreciation and thankfulness, I extol the glories and compassion of Prince Siddhartha.

Om Namoh Buddhaya!

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The video features recitation of the Heart Sutra by Marina Lighthouse. The Sutra contemplates sunyata, or the essential emptiness of all phenomena. It is said that by contemplating and apprehending sunyata one may become instantly awakened. Buddha's teaching is not, however, nihilistic. He did not teach that 'everything is not real', but that things are not real in the way that we perceive them to be. The Sutra ends thus:

Gaté,
gaté,
paragaté,
parasamgaté.
Bodhi!
Svaha!

Which means...

Gone,
gone,
gone over,
gone fully over.
Awakened!
So be it!

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• siddhartha

[zfrozen]

what progem to do this video??

[Fieldhouse12]

Cool! I feel good watching this:)