The Buddha

The Four Noble Truths

1st Nobel Truth or Dukkha Suffering is a part of human life. Birth, old age, sickness and death are all suffering.
2nd Nobel Truth or Tanha The Buddha discovered what causes suffering is our desire for sensuous things, clinging to things that, by their nature lead to suffering.
3rd Nobel Truth or Nibbana There is state beyond suffering
4th Nobel Truth or Eightfold Path The way to avoid suffering is to follow the right way of thinking laid out in the Buddha's Eight Fold Path.

The Eight Fold Path. Buddha Statue

1. Right Understanding, The world is as it is. Avoid filtering thoughts (i.e.: greed, hate, delusion, lust and like that) our will always have a different (usually worse) result than we would have guessed.
2. Right Mindedness, Avoid . lust, ill-will and cruelty.
3. Right Speech,to abstain from lying, tale-carrying, use of harsh or vain talk.
4. Right Action Right Action is to abstain from killing, stealing and harming others for your own benefit.
5. Right Living is to avoid wrong way of living and to get ones livelihood by right way of living.
6. Right Effort consists of the Four Great Efforts:
a) the effort to avoid evil and worthless things,
b) to overcome, evil and sinful things
c) to develop disciple strives to create good,
d) and to maintain existing virtues
7. Right Attentiveness leads to the attainment of purity, overcoming of sorrow, worry, pain, grief, pursuit of right path to reach peace and Nirvana.
8. Right Concentration, is to fix the mind on a single object.

Some Quotes from The Buddha or Enlightened One

Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, was born in the 
Lumbini garden about 563, B.C. lived about 80 years and died about 
483 B.C.. His Father, Suddhodana, was king of the Shakya tribe just 
south of the Himalaya mountains. His mother was Maya (died seven 
days after his birth) and Siddhartha was raised by her younger 
sister, Mahapajapati.

Siddhartha grew up living the extravagant life of a prince 
and at the age of sixteen, married a girl named Yasodhara. 
Siddhartha was to live a life secluded from unpleasantness but 
chanced upon seeing the reality and inevitable suffering of life.

At the age of twenty-nine, Siddhartha left his kingdom and 
newborn son and spent six years seeking enlightenment, studying 
methods of various religious teachers One day a young girl 
offered Siddhartha bowl of rice and in that moment, he realized 
that the way is a path of balance rather than extremism. He 
called this The Middle Way.

That night Siddhartha sat under the Bodhi tree, meditating 
until dawn and attained enlightenment at the age of thirty-five. 
Since than Siddhartha became known as Buddha, or "Enlightened 
One". For the rest of his eighty years, the Buddha preached "the 
Dharma" in an effort to help others.

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