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This moment of realization is
what has become known as the enlightenment of Buddha Shakyamuni.
From this moment onward, Prince Siddhartha became known as Buddha
and he spent the rest of his life teaching these lessons to whoever
wished to know, the resultant recorded wisdom becoming identified
as Buddhism.
The Buddha's enlightenment
consists of the knowledge that one is responsible for one's own
experience of happiness or unhappiness, based on cause and effect.
There is no independent force judging you as such. The answer
to everything is contained within your own mind. |
ne day, he was sitting
under the Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya when the realization dawned
on him that through a lack of understanding of the nature of
mind, we mistake ourselves and our egos for permanent phenomena,
rather than the ephermeral phenomena that they are, and subsequently
we engage in the type of karmic activity which keeps us in the
continual bondage of the pain and suffering of being born and
getting sick and dying.
