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Everyone wants to know about the Lord Buddha. How did you become enlightened?
Hello, Channel Poy. Normally, when we talk about enlightenment or the Buddha's enlightenment, does everyone think the same as View? That is, when I was a child, View felt that enlightenment is when a person, one day, went to ordain as a monk. After he was ordained, he sat down, thinking about this and that, imagining until reaching a point where it was like a glimpse of the truth of life. It came up without any reason, and it's done.
After enlightenment, it gradually became the process of taking the truth of life to teach other people, right? That's what I've been thinking about. It was like this all along until one day, Nawiw sat thinking and thinking, and then she thought, "Huh?"
But in Buddhism, we believe in cause and effect. Something happens, and then it has an effect. The enlightenment of the Buddha is not something that should be expected to happen suddenly. There must have been some factors that occurred that made the Buddha think that way until he came to see it as the main truth of life. Dharma is something that has come to be a religion, Buddhism, until today.
So today, I tried to find the answer: How did the Buddha become enlightened? If you are ready to listen to a story that is both fun and educational, now that we have the gist, let's go listen.
Yes, let me explain first that the story I'm going to tell is... Of course, it's not written directly. It is stated in the Tripitaka that the Buddha attained enlightenment. How could it be possible to tell the story that View picked up? Of course, the main reference would be in the Tripitaka, which tells us what the event was. Sometimes we can analyze it and say, "Oh, from this incident, the Buddha thought like this."
This is a story from history. Yes, because each person is certain. The Sleeping Buddha is a person, right? That one person will think of something that is translated. It must consist of many things that affected his life as he grew up. What was society like back then? What was the city like? What do other people think?
Just like all of us, when you think of something, you have to look at it, right? Oh, now society believes this. What do we ourselves think about this? Do we think the same as society, or do we think differently from society? Or do we agree in some parts and disagree in some?
The same goes for the enlightenment of the Lord Buddha. Buddha Niew believes that it must be composed of stories from that era's society. What did society think at that time, and what was enlightenment? The Buddha thought differently from society at that time. This is a new idea, an extension. Where did this idea come from at that time?
And for sure, please sleep that all the content that View picked up. Let's say that if someone listens and feels like, "Hey! I want to read more and know where it came from." If you are confused, refer to the view on the side below, as usual. You can go in and have a look.
Okay, let's get into the story. If we talk about the era of the Lord Buddha, the Buddha was a person who lived around 500 years before Christ in the area of India and Nepal, which is the Indian region. The society of North India during the time of the Buddha was a society where the main idea was the idea of Vedas; they believed in Brahmanism, right?
In the early days of Brahmanism, what they worshiped were the basic gods. There are many, such as Phra Pirun, Phra Agni, and Phra Indra. Due to the concept of Brahmin religion, various things in society have been around for a long time, developing many different rules.
It's all gone, no matter what the rules are about doing various worship ceremonies, including rules of caste, which many people will say is caste. I understand that it means class division. Society determines who is high and low class. But in reality, the matter of caste is not just a matter of class division; it is also a matter of duty that you are in the country.
Which floor is your duty from birth to death? What are your duties like this? Born into the Brahmin caste, you have the duty to study the Vedas and pass on knowledge to others. Not just a Brahmin like a priest, but being a teacher is this and that. They are all Brahmin caste, while if you are a Kshatriya caste, this warrior caste, all rulers, your duty is to fight and govern.
The expansion of the land and the physician caste also decreased. It is divided according to each person's duty. It is believed that each caste has its origins in the Buddha. Brahma is the same, but with duty and something else. This difference makes each caste different.
Yes, there are rules and regulations of our own that are so tight that it's like society at that time. They compared it to being so pressed that it's like a conflict ready to explode. Because of the Brahmin side, he taught that everyone must do their duty. People have to keep doing their duties like this over and over again.
Right, while the Kshatriya caste was also taught that you have to fight, you have to expand your territory. You must defend your own territory until the end. That time was the time when India was not a single unity, but in northern India, it split into about 16 regions, which is Mahajanabad.
Like what Phiw said, I have already told you in the clip about the Buddha in history. Because of the society, there are rules and criteria that almost explode. Being like that makes people have it. One group felt that they couldn't do it anymore, and with these social rules, they thought it was better to leave.
It is better to be from this kind of society where living with people is better. Most of them cannot leave this society. No, they can't break this rule because everyone believes the same thing, and everyone crosses out that this is the rule of society. So these people thought this was the way out for them.
The exit of the soul is the exit from society. It was boiling hot, and these people ran into his mouth. Let's give up our worldly lives and our caste-based duties. Things that we received since birth are gone. Try to find ways to think and practice your own practices to find the ultimate truth of a new life.
Who thought, "Hey, that's what the Brahmin has been telling us all along. This may not be the ultimate truth." The people then went to search for their own ultimate truth. In the forest, we call someone who abandons the rules and social criteria for going out into the forest a monk.
That's right, and I believe that many people will be confused a little bit, saying that a Brahmin is a monk and a nun. How is being a monk any different? This must be said to be different because a Brahmin is a person who still follows the rules of society. The Brahmin there is the duty you have been given since birth.
You have been born from the mouth of God. Brahmana has a duty to teach and to study the Vedas. It is his profession. His profession is to get up in the morning and study the Vedas, teaching people to perform ceremonies and do various things. Because he is still within the rules of society, these Brahmins can get married.
If you have a child, you can live a normal life. Otherwise, Brahmins will disappear. Can you imagine that? While these monks and nuns, it's not a profession, it's not a duty, but they chose to isolate themselves from society. Then they go and observe celibacy or observe the rules of something of their own to find the truth of life.
His own, which is to live in a salt lick in the forest. What? He doesn't care anymore that you are a Brahmin. He is a king, a doctor, a formula; he is any caste, but he is the one who said he is not. Now, the rules of various social castes are just for fun. Go be yourself in the forest and find your own way.
In the forest, as I said, society is so hot, it's like something is really pressing. There were many forests in the time of the Buddha, right? It is full of monks who have fled from society, full of its own practices. So, these people are each of them. That is, each person leaves society on their own, right? They will have their own way of thinking and their own school of thought.
There is something unique about it if you follow it. The Tripitaka also has records of this group. These people are roughly divided into six groups. As the name shows, the six groups that are being told are group-type groups. The teachings say that he believes in which groups.
But in these six groups, there will be subgroups. Go on and ask, "Oh, how many people live together?" And what is the name called, like Mahavira? Jainism that arose before the Buddha. In a moment, it's like a group. Who escaped from society or another group that the Pancavaggi group we know well is the Pancavaggi group.
If we remember the Pancavaggi from the life story of Buddha Ananya Kondanya, he was once a Brahmin. The first one was a Brahmin who was in a divination ceremony of the Buddha when he was a child. But cut to the next scene, several decades later, Anya Kondañña no longer wants to be part of the Brahmin society.
He goes out and becomes a monk, goes out and becomes a hermit in the forest. Pancavaggi is another group that tried to search for the truth in the forest as well. So it's clear that the forest in the past was the spiritual outlet. People who want to break away from the rules should choose.
I was already wondering which group I would try it with. This group of blue-haired, naked, and exhausted people suffer. This group of food is something to ponder over and over again. Here, each group has different methods.
Now, the question is, what makes a monk? Buddha decided to go out like that. Stay with the monks until they are taken away towards enlightenment in the past before going out to suffer. This is Prince Siddhartha. He is in Wanasat