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Antique Religion - Buddha Said Heaven Welcomes All Pure and Good

by DerekDashwood

Gautama Buddha (560-480 B.C.E.)was born a prince in the Sakya or
warrior caste, the second highest in the Hindu faith of India.
His mother died when he was young and the boy was brought in
luxury with servants in a palace.

When Gautama was 29 and just after the birth of his son he felt
the need to leave and felt great sorrow at leaving his family. He
wandered across the fertile Ganges plains to the tree covered
hills of Vindhya hills where he lived for six years.

Here Buddha practiced the usual ways of the ascetic then common
among holy men in India. He shaved his head and beard, put on the
yellow robes and tortured his body with long fasts and every
known form of physical mortification.

He became known as a pure man yet the truth seemed to escape him
until he awoke from a fainting fit from hunger he awoke as light
came like a flash to his mind.

All the fasting, the suppression and control of the breath, the
fasting were leading him to enfeeblement of mind and body. To
reach unclouded reason, flawless thinking, surveying the
processes of thought, acquire clarity of vision and unadulterated
experience, a person must have proper food and lead a healthy
life.

Buddha was thrilled by his discovery but his disciples were so
shocked that their master would turn away from constant suffering
and all left him. The day that followed has been said to be one
of those defining moments in history.

Left to himself Gautama walked the forests in now Bihar and sat
by the banks of the River Neranjara where he sat under a wild fig
tree. Here a lady presented him with a dish of milk which
invigorated him.

And it is said there, after his ranging through every emotion
known to humanity from blackest despair to sublime hope. Gautama
found at last the peace and certainty he sought. Truth was
revealed to him and he became the Buddha, the Enlightened One.

Followers became drawn to him from the great and ancient Hindu
religion, which caused consternation among the ruling courts. The
caste system which Buddha rejected held that all were born into
one of five levels of caste, with the ruling court on top.

Next were the warrior caste to protect the court, then down to
merchants who were needed for trade and wealth, the higher
skilled laborer, and at the bottom the Untouchables. They were
all stuck in their positions for life, an Untouchable could never
work his way up into court. This is changing now in modern India
finally.

Buddhism exported better in other nearby lands, where the gentle
teachings allowed all to reach heaven, or Nirvana by living pure
lives and forgoing excess. Buddha has long since taken on more
oriental eyes and the fat belly in south east Asia, Japan and
again now in China.

It seems the feeling of empty lives is driving young affluent
coastal Chinese to be meditating in city parks and the
authorities are so far able to realize this is not threat.

People are reporting happier lives and feeling more calm. What
came to the West in a faddish wave in the 1960 era and has shown
evidence of reducing high blood pressure and many calming
effects. Good news circles the world in way and waves that can be
very good news.

We will carry these thoughts into further articles that had
Gautama be the first to break through the Hindu anger about his
greater freedom to a rather court style Nirvana that was not sure
Untouchables were ever going to more than the septic brigade.

Buddha overlapped their eight steps which might have you become
a cow or monkey on your steps through reincarnation. He added a
fast track that anyone could choose to make it to Nirvana or
Eternal Bliss or Heaven in this life if one lived a pure life and
learned the four basic truths.

Derek Dashwood enjoys antique religion books that can show how
small acts can lead to great or small changes we later take for
granted. Now antique religion has prove to show which ways were
helpful, and which were most vital, and we talk about it further
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