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The Last Message of the Buddha

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Post time 10-7-2004 02:19 AM | Show all posts |Read mode
This is taken from this site:
http://www.tipitaka.net/ebooks/p ... 20of%20the%20Buddha


                                                 The Last Message of the Buddha
                              ''When I am gone, my Teaching shall be your Master and Guide.'

Three months before His passing away the Buddha addressed His disciples and said: 'I have delivered sermons to you during these forty-five years. You must learn them well and treasure them. You must practise them and teach them to others. This will be of great use for the welfare of the living and for the welfare of those who come after you'.

'My years are now full ripe; the life span left is short. I will soon have to leave you. You must be earnest. O monks, be mindful and of pure virtue! Whoever untiringly pursues the Teaching, will go beyond the cycle of birth and death and will man an end of Suffering.'

When Ananda asked the Buddha what would become of the Order after He pass away, the Buddha replied, 'What does the Order expect of me, Ananda? I have preached the Truth without any distinction; for in regard to the Truth, there is no clenched hand in the Teachings of the Buddha?. It may be, Ananda, that to some among you, the thought will come 'The Master's words will soon end; soon we will no longer have a master.' But do not think like this, Ananda. When I am gone, my Teaching and the disciplinary code shall be your Master.'

The Buddha further explained: 'If there is anyone who thinks, 'It is I who will lead the brotherhood', or 'The Order is dependent on me, it is I who should give instructions', the Buddha does not think that He should lead the order or that the Order is dependent on Him. I have reached the end of my days. Just as a worn-out cart can only be made to move with much additional care, so my body can be kept going only with much additional care. Therefore, Ananda, be a lamp and refuge unto yourselves. Look for no other refuge. Let the Truth be your lamp and your refuge. Seek no refuge elsewhere.'

At the age of eighty, on His birthday, He passed away without showing any worldly supernatural powers. He showed the real nature of component things even in His own life.

When the Buddha passed away into Nibbana, one of His disciples remarked, 'All must depart---all beings that have life must shed their compounded forms. Yes, even a Master such as He, a peerless being, powerful in Wisdom and Enlightenment, even He must pass away.'

The parting words of the Buddha:
'Appamadena Sampadetha Vaya Dhamma Sankhara'.
'Work diligently. Component things are impermanent.'

[ Last edited by ariyamusafir on 11-4-2005 at 01:08 AM ]
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 Author| Post time 10-7-2004 02:26 AM | Show all posts
Originally posted by ariyamusafir at 10-7-2004 02:19:
This is taken from this site:
http://www.tipitaka.net/ebooks/p ... 20of%20the%20Buddha



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There was once I read not from the net on a book, that the buddha said that those who see the dhamma see the buddha. Not sure where I got that already, will investigate and let you guys know, if you are interested.
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Post time 11-7-2004 12:49 AM | Show all posts
The final hours of Buddha is very touching to some. When He is on his final stage, there are people elsewhere running & rushing to meet Him for the first time and also for the final time but failed. To some of His disciples & those who knows Him who were present is an experience of unbearable because they have grown accustomed to the Buddha's teachings for decades. It is a sense of lost they feel.

Buddha had come to us several times. He will come again when the time is right.
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 Author| Post time 11-7-2004 02:55 AM | Show all posts
Originally posted by Adm_Cheng_Ho at 11-7-2004 00:49:
The final hours of Buddha is very touching to some. When He is on his final stage, there are people elsewhere running & rushing to meet Him for the first time and also for the final time but fa ...


There are two types of Buddha. One called mighty buddha (have the name but not sure the spelling in ABC but will get back to it later) the other called Pecceka Buddha, know also as silent Buddha. Sakyamuni Buddha is a mighty Buddha, which comes once in an extremely long time, wheras for a silent Buddha, maybe now in this world there is one or more or maybe none. I will explain more on this with reference later.

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Post time 26-6-2005 03:05 PM | Show all posts
Here today and gone tomorrow.
And back again the day after tomorrow?

The Buddha tells you not only what to do but how to do it.

After his last message here are his last moments
Digha Nikaya 1.156

"The Buddha entered the first jhana ......and leaving the 8th jhana he attained the cessation of feeling and perception.
Then the Ven. Ananda said to the Ven. Anuruddha: "Ven. Anuruddha, the Buddha has passed away."
And at the Blessed Lord's final passing there was a great earthquake accompanied by thunder (lightning and rain)."

There is another passage before the last sentence. Roughly he goes back to jhana 1 and then up to 4 and away.
On theoretical grounds it's difficult to see how it works.
Maybe it's for insight meditators. And craving stops, clinging and becoming stop?
But dependent origination puts mental formations relinking with the consciousness of the new body.

The description of jhana 9 is usually
"abides in the cessation of feeling and perception. And having seen by intuitive wisdom his cankers are utterly destroyed.
He goes unseen.......he has crossed over the entanglement in the world."

[ Last edited by Alwin on 26-6-2005 at 03:07 PM ]
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Post time 26-6-2005 07:26 PM | Show all posts
Originally posted by ariyamusafir at 11-7-2004 02:55 AM:


There are two types of Buddha. One called mighty buddha (have the name but not sure the spelling in ABC but will get back to it later) the other called Pecceka Buddha, know also as silent Buddh ...

Sammasam Buddha?
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 Author| Post time 26-6-2005 10:17 PM | Show all posts
Originally posted by Vijaya at 26-6-2005 19:26:

Sammasam Buddha?


My spellings might defer from some books mentioning or explaining. Sammasam Buddha are also called Mighty Buddha and Pecceka Buddha are sometimes refered to as Silent Buddha. Buddha Gotama is an example of a sammasam buddha.
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Post time 27-6-2005 08:04 AM | Show all posts
... Therefore, Ananda, be a lamp and refuge unto yourselves. Look for no other refuge. Let the Truth be your lamp and your refuge. Seek no refuge elsewhere.'

True to Kalama Sutra's words. He gave guidance but the answer is within you. Use the guidance and find the answers in your self.
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