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The Great Temple Borobudur

 

The Great Temple Borobudur

Two major events happened in this world in the 7th / 8th century which is the golden age of Buddhism particularly Tantrayana, the two events are :

The Great Master Padmasambhava brought Tantric Buddhism from India to Tibet and He built the first Buddhist Monastery named Samye Monastery in Tsedang-Tibet, and at the nearly same time The King of Sailendra Dynasty built The Great Temple Borobudur in Magelang, middle of Java Island-Indonesia.

The Great Temple Borobudur was built nine levels which was symbolize Nine Yanas that were exist in the past in Buddhist religion, the Nine Yanas were :

1. Sarvaka Yana

2. Pratika Buddha Yana

3. Mahayana

4. Kriya Tantra

5. Upa Tantra

6. Yoga Tantra

7. Maha Yoga

8. Anu Yoga

9. Ati Yoga

The Great Temple Borobudur was also built with the architecture and very high science of that era, Borobudur was built with square shape and one Stupa of Buddha in the center, this symbolizes The Five Primordial Buddhas :

1. In the north side of The Great Temple Borobudur laid Amoghasiddhi Buddha, The Buddha who was in The North.

2. In the east side of The Great temple Borobudur laid Akshobhya Buddha, The Buddha who was in The East.

3. In the south side of The Great Temple Borobudur laid Ratnasambhava Buddha, The Buddha who was in The South.

4. In the west side of The Great Temple Borobudur laid Amitabha Buddha, The Buddha who was in The West.

5. In the center of The Great Temple Borobudur laid Vairocana Buddha, The Buddha who was in The Center.

The wall of The Great Temple Borobudur carved with reliefs depicting The Buddha’s teachings of both Sutra and Tantra.

The Great Temple Borobudur is recognized by every Great Master of Buddhism as The Holy Mandala of tangible Nirvana that can be seen in this life.

The Smile of Lord Buddha

The Smile of Lord Buddha

Lord Buddha was very wise and compassion, He had crossed thousands of rebirths, He left the world’s life, meditating under a Bodhi Tree and find The Path To Enlightenment, leaving Samsara, beyond the process of birth, old age, sickness and death.

After reached Enlightenment Lord Buddha wrote the way to reach Enlightenment, He taught His disciples The Path To Enlightenment. All the teachings of Lord Buddha taught from generation to generation until now and still relevant even until whenever. Doctrine of Lord Buddha known as Dharma.

Lord Buddha has found The Path To Enlightenment, leave Samsara towards Nirvana, He just showed the way but never force us to run like Him, all depends on us.

If we want to listen to The Teachings of Lord Buddha, He smiles.

If we want to learn the Dharma, He also smiles.

If we want to practice His Dharma, He will smile.

But if we do not believe to The Teachings of Lord Buddha, He is still smiling.

Or if we underestimate The Teachings of Lord Buddha, He remains smiles.

Although we complain His Dharma, He just smiled.

Even if we deny The Teachings of Lord Buddha, He replied with a smile.

If in the end we just humiliate The Teachings of Lord Buddha, He always smiles.

 

Believe the Dharma or not believe it, we are going to feel it. Lord Buddha was very wise, He was teaching us all He knew but does not ask us to believe, He teaches us to check the truth of His Teachings.

Praise The Lord Buddha.

May all beings be happy.

May all beings be free of Samsara.

May all beings reach Enlightenment.

May all beings entered Nirvana.

Teachings of Lord Buddha (3)

Teachings of Lord Buddha (3)

 

– Life is suffering

– Suffering comes from ourselves

– Suffering not from outside, not a punishment, but suffering is the consequences of an action

– We have to cope all the suffering on our own, we can not rely on outside help

– Suffering is caused by craving which develops into attachment

– Fervent desire that always gets the fulfillment of which became a habit, this is the source of suffering

– Desires/expectations/ demands are met is not a happiness, at first glance looks yes, but after the desire is fulfilled, it will require new desires, and so on we just feel happy for a while

– The real happiness is not because of lust fulfilled, precisely because of lust outages is the true happiness

– Although it has not been able to extinguish the craving, but only to reduce or minimize the craving will lead to tranquility

– Although it has not extinguished the flames of desire, even though only a smaller will give happiness

– Lust will not be extinguished even though it was raining gold

– Suffering are also made by our own because of the flames of hatred

– If we are not selective with the desire, it will be a blaze of passion that would be the cause of suffering

– Desire is the cause of suffering, that’s The Teachings of Lord Buddha

 

Lord Buddha said that it is very difficult to be born as human beings, after birth as a human beings we must live with the suffering, we should experience the life of birth, old age, sickness and death, therefore do not add any suffering in our life but we must strive eliminate the suffering from our lives.

 

May all beings be happy and could achieve Nirvana.

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