12/05/2025
2569th Buddha Birthday ✨Happy Buddha Purnima ✨
May I be born in the land of Buddhist ideals in my next birth☸️🌻
HAPPY BUDDHA PURNIMA & HAPPY VESAK
DAY 🌹🌹🌷🌷🥀🥀🙏🙏
On this specious Day of Buddha Purnima brings lots of Peace, Happiness, Love, Wisdom & Prosperity for everyone 🙏🙏
NAMO BUDDHA 🙏
NAMO DHAMMA 🙏
NAMO SANGHA 🙏
Sending a Precious dhamma greeting to all my dearest dhamma family and friends with lots of love and Metta.
On the auspicious occasion of Buddha Purnima may you and your family members be happy, healthy and enjoy serenity, peace and tranquility in life.
May all beings be happy and free from suffering .
May the mind of every being be pure and devoid of selfish greed .
Happy is the Birth of Buddhas.
Happy is the Preaching of the Dhamma.
Happy is the Unity of the Sangha,
Unity brings constant Peace.
Rare is birth as a human being.
Hard is the life of mortals.
Hard is the chance to hear the Sublime Truth.
We are fortunate to have both.
Do not let slip this opportunity
(for spiritual growth).
For those who let slip this opportunity
grieve indeed when they go to states of woe.
Vesak is the spiritually most important date in the Buddhist calendar. We are celebrating and recollecting three main events in the Buddha's life, all of them occurring on the Full Moon of May:
1. Birth
The Bodhisatta was born in beautiful Lumbini Grove under Sāl trees ('shorea robusta'), with hismother Mahāmāyā standing and holding on to the branch of an Ashoka tree ('saraca asoca'), and the little child pacing 7 steps to the North and declaring that this is his last birth.
2. Supreme Awakening ('Sammāsambodhi')
Meditating all night, seated on the Vajirāsana ('Diamond Throne' - actually several sheafs of kusa grass offered to the Buddha which he used as his seat ), facing east to the rising sun, under
the Bodhi Tree('Ficus Religiosa') at Uruvela/Bodhgaya near the banks of Nerañjana River, the Buddha realized the Four Noble Truths, destruction of all defilements, and perfect enlightenment.
3. Great Final Nibbāna ('Parinibbāna')
Lying on his right side in the Lion's posture, facing West to the setting sun, the Buddha attained the Remainderless Nibbāna Element between the Twin Sāla Trees near Kusināra in the grove
of the Mallas.
Visakha Puja Day is one of the most important days in Buddhism and for Buddhists. It is the day Buddhists assemble to commemorate the life of the Buddha, and to give reverence to His purity, profound wisdom and immense compassion for all humankind and living beings by reflecting and using His teachings as guidelines for their lives. Visakha Puja Day also marks the anniversary of three significant events in the life of the Buddha – His Birth, Enlightenment, and Attainment of Complete Nibbana – that occurred on the 15th day of the 6th waxing moon.
When Queen Mahamaya, King Suddhodana’s Royal Consort, was due to give birth, she returned to her home in Devadaha City for the childbirth as it was a royal tradition. Along the journey, she stopped to rest under the sala trees in Lumbini Park. As she was standing and holding on to a tree branch, she gave birth to a prince. The birth occurred on a full moon day of the sixth lunar month eighty years before the beginning of the Buddhist Era. When the prince was five days old, he was bestowed the name Siddhattha – meaning ‘fulfillment’.
News of Prince Siddhattha’s birth spread quickly, eventually reaching Hermit Asitha, an acquaintance of King Suddhodana residing in the Himalayas. Hermit Asitha requested a visitation to see the newborn prince. When he saw the prince, he predicted that the prince would be self-enlightened and discover the path to Nibbana, and eventually become the Buddha. The prince would teach the people the way to end suffering and spread love and kindness to all humankind. After presenting his prediction, Hermit Asitha bowed respectfully at the prince’s feet. Witnessing the act, King Suddhodana was overjoyed and bowed to the prince as well. Later, the King invited eight Brahmin scholars specializing in astrology to examine and predict Prince Siddhattha’s destiny. Seven of them predicted that the prince will become a Supreme Emperor if he assumes the throne; however, if he decides to ordain, he will become the Buddha. However, Konddanya, the youngest of the Brahmins, prophesied that the prince will choose the latter path and become the Buddha.
His Enlightenment
King Suddhodana wished for Prince Siddhattha to continue the reign of the kingdom and to eventually become the Supreme Emperor. He provided every luxury his son could ever want in the three palaces (for seasonal occupation) that were filled with beautiful royal consorts in an effort to shield the prince from witnessing any forms of suffering and sadness that would lead to apathy and a desire to ordain. The opulent life of the prince was filled with beauty, wealth, royal attendants, prestige, fame, and bliss.
One day, when Prince Siddhattha was 29 years old, he rode his horse outside the palace and encountered an aging person, a sick person, a co**se and an ascetic. The sight of the aged, diseased and the dead caused him to reflect on the uncertainties and suffering in the lives of human beings. But upon seeing the ascetic, an individual seeking escape from the suffering, Prince Siddhattha was moved by that lifestyle and aspired to become ordained one day.
Soon after, Princess Yasodhara, the prince’s royal consort, gave birth to a son who was given the name Rahul, meaning ‘fetter’. This name was chosen because Prince Siddhattha realized that if he did not ordain now, his love and obligation to his wife and son would ultimately bound and prevent him from ever ordaining. That evening, he decided to leave the palace in order to ordain and search for the path to overcome suffering.
Six years after departing the palace to ordain and spending time searching arduously, Prince Siddhattha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree along the banks of Neranjara River on the full moon night of the sixth lunar month, and became the Buddha at the age of thirty-five. During the first meditative stage, he attained the ability to recount every past lifetime that he was ever born; in the middle stage he attained what is called ‘the divine eye’ and acquired the ability to see past lives of all living creatures in the cycle of existence, or samsara.
In the final meditative stage, he was able to eliminate all his defilements through the wisdom he gained; Prince Siddhattha was now fully enlightened and became the Buddha. At the present day, the place where he attained enlightenment is in the town of Bodh Gaya, located in Gaya City in the Indian state of Bihar.
His Attainment of Complete Nibbana
After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha taught His Teachings, or Dhamma, to the people for the next 45 years until he was 80. On the full moon night of the sixth month, as the Buddha rested in Kusinara City of the Malla Kingdom, he delivered his final discourse as follows: “Behold monks, naturally all conditioned things must undergo changes. Strive to work hard to benefit yourself and humankind, and by not being reckless.” He then entered Complete Nibbana on the full moon night of the sixth lunar month. The location where the Buddha attained Complete Nibbana is in Kushinagar District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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If your mind remains calm, the world will have peace.
When your mind remains undisturbed but clear, you can see the reality of your world.
In fact you create your own world.
May you be filled with loving kindness.
May you be well.
May you be peaceful and at ease.
May you be safe.
May you be happy.
"May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes....
May all sentient beings be free from dangers and suffering and its causes....
May all sentient beings not be separated from sorrowless bliss....
May all sentient beings abide in equanimity free of bias, attachment and anger, and share Loving-kindness and compassion with others....."
Sadhu sadhu sadhu 🙏🙏
