RELIGST 1B06 Lecture Notes - Mahayana, Dharma
14 Apr 2014
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What did the buddha do: buddha was someone who succeeded in his goal, buddha spent a lot of time meditating, thinking about how the cycle of samsara works in order to understand it and thus escape it, buddha renounced the world, buddha"s method is still followed by many buddhists today, to achieve nirvana, follow buddha"s method but that"s the only response. The buddha"s first birth as sumedha: the buddha is a lot like us (cid:224) stuck in the cycle of samsara until he found out how to escape it, buddha, a long time ago, decided to become a buddha, the decision was made when he was born for the first time as sumedha, as sumedha, he came across another buddha, sumedha is kneeling, sumedha was inspired by this past buddha to become buddha and was preparing to become a buddha is his lifetimes, each lifetime, he became incrementally closer to becoming buddha and achieving enlightenment.
