ANE KUNGA (Tibetan Nun): Avoid all negativity. Acquire all positive qualities. Completely tame one's own mind -- this is the path of the Buddha.
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Vesak is the most important of all the Buddhist holidays. It is actually the commemoration of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and passing.
As a way of showing respect to his holy accomplishments we walk around the Buddha three times, and we also make, do prostrations, bow down to the Buddha three times.
Each of us, in our own language, recited the name of the Buddha. So we were actually, with our bodies, voices, and minds, trying to emulate his holy path.
As a way of showing respect to his holy accomplishments we walk around the Buddha three times, and we also make, do prostrations, bow down to the Buddha three times.
Each of us, in our own language, recited the name of the Buddha. So we were actually, with our bodies, voices, and minds, trying to emulate his holy path.
It's obviously not easy, and that's why it takes a number of lifetimes of very diligent work to eventually attain it. But many great beings have in the past and will in the future, and so that's why many of us are striving in the present.
