enlightment - Spiritual Blogs - Ashtar Command - Spiritual Community2024-03-29T14:42:16Zhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/enlightmentBuddha : Life – Part IIhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/buddha-life-part-ii2013-11-30T11:59:22.000Z2013-11-30T11:59:22.000ZAndreas Botsarishttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/AndreasBotsaris<div><p></p><p class="separator" style="text-align:center;clear:both;"><a style="margin-right:1em;margin-left:1em;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ht65tTspVdM/UpInCEQP43I/AAAAAAAAIbU/vZBdtPZvv2c/s1600/Buddha.jpg"><img width="640" height="359" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ht65tTspVdM/UpInCEQP43I/AAAAAAAAIbU/vZBdtPZvv2c/s640/Buddha.jpg" border="0" alt="Buddha.jpg" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><h1 class="entry-title"><font color="#0000FF">Life – Part II</font></h1><div class="entry-meta"><p></p></div><p></p><div class="entry-content"><p><font color="#0000FF"><font style="font-size:22px;"><b>Buddha</b></font></font><font style="font-size:22px;"><b><br /> channeled by Jahn J Kassl</b></font></p><br /><p>I am amongst you. Arrived with a huge team. Masters surround me and Masters, who have already ascended, work on your energy fields, so that you can awaken. Finally there is only one obstacle, which makes it impossible for you to reach Buddha-hood: It is the hanging on to your known life and it is your refusal, to let in to God, whereby the really huge development steps are not forthcoming.<font id="more-13340"></font></p><p>I am Buddha, who has arrived. The One who has arrived amongst you and the One completed in God. Follow me and remain true to self, then you understood. We continue with the message from yesterday and I take on the same track of the Ascended Masters as yesterday. For that the following Knowledge is necessary. As you know, <b>there are already many ascended Masters here on earth, as never before in the history of Mankind. These are mainly incarnated in human bodies, which means, they have decided, to walk again the very demanding path of human evolution</b>.</p><p>Each of you know, what it means to “be human”, to be exposed to these givens and so is this fact, that already completed Masters have arrived as humans among humans, a very significant one. <b>This decision was made by all Masters, because the earth got into severe turbulences during the ascension process</b>. Many of these “turbulences” are known to you. In order to stabilize the ascension process and guarantee it, it required such high energies and it still requires them today (This is the actual mission of the PAT, note George).</p><p>It is also worth knowing, that <b>every already completed Master had to acquire a “human deficiency”, so that he can enter into bodily form. Because an illumined Being has only one thing on his mind: to immediately leave this world and return to the Source. These are mostly “small characteristics”, which keep these Beings on the ground of the earth </b>(this is extremely important information for all of you as not to bother about your alleged personal deficiencies as they are artificial and necessary prerequisites for you to stay on the ground and complete this mission, note George.).</p><p>Of RAMA KRISHNA you know, that he paid a lot of attention to eating and asked his wife several times during the day, what kind of food is being served for eating. This may sound rather odd for his students and not understood, until RAMA KRISHNA declared: “<i>From the day, when I stop asking my wife about food, I will remain on earth for another three days</i>.”</p><div><p>And so it happened. One day the Master lost interest in eating, his questions went silent and three days later his essence changed – and he ascended to God. RAMA KRISHNA is also at my side at this moment, when it is said: The corridor of the Masters guarantees your ascension, if you actually claim it for yourself. This “minor deficiency”, which a completed Master has to decide on, so that he can walk on earth in a human body, has also been necessary, so that this Being can go into a deep relationship with this earth. With this earth, as it has been so far: incomplete, imperfect, unrefined.</p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">This is described here, so that you can have an idea, how important this time is and that the description “<b>The time of all times</b>” is absolutely on the spot. In summary it is evident today, that all paths lead to ascension, even detours. What is it now, what do need to take into consideration now? What do you need to work on and what do you need to let go?</font></p></div><div><p>a) As was mentioned before, grapple with your actual assignments.</p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">b) Grapple with the fact, to let go of linear thinking, because it makes you impatient and helpless, especially now, because patience and equanimity are indispensible. Life and every process in God’s Creation happen in circles – in elliptic rings and cycles – and never are a linear matter.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">You are used to think about, how to get from A to B. And you muse about the fastest way. As an arrow can only fly in a linear direction, so you plan your life: A-B. That doesn’t take you very far, except to your next target and when you arrive, you select a new target from B to C. And so it goes on forever. This is completely wrong on a spiritual path, with this method you will go nowhere. Observe, what happens, after you throw a rock into the water. The rings and circles, which show themselves on the surface of the water, are symbolic of life and the great cosmic river of life. That is life, everything moves in rings and is never linear.</font></p></div><div><p>For you it means quite practically: Get involved in Life, as you let go of all concepts, which can be measured. Simply be totally within self. The more you pursue a goal, the stronger it withdraws from you very often. This is also a law and one likes to forget it. This means, be totally with a thing and relax. Enlightenment is always a gift from the Creator and will never be given, after one has cited the thousand’s mantra, has visited the hundred’s temple or has directed one’s daily meditation totally towards enlightenment.</p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">The greatest adventure, which a human Being has to enter into, before he achieves enlightenment, is the adventure of letting go. In these days what one needs to omit, is to prepare the ascension in such a manner, that it is connected with “success expectations”, which are founded in your concept of linear time. Everything is on its way, <b>individual ascensions are taking place and you will also be called</b>. This will happen on the day, when you are totally relaxed sitting under a tree and sitting on the ground and looking up to the sky in heaven – without expectation, without tensions, without wishes, without intentions – as you are totally in self and you cannot react to any distraction from your mind, because you have arrived.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">The human will of holding on to old programs and the human unwillingness to actually let go, defeat some great leaps in consciousness. Letting go is not a concept. Letting go is the alpha and omega, as one considers the heaven, and essential for the successful return to God.</font></p><div style="margin:10px 0px;text-align:center;float:none;"><ins style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:;width:468px;height:15px;display:inline-table;visibility:visible;background-color:transparent;"><p><ins style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:;width:468px;height:15px;display:inline-table;visibility:visible;background-color:transparent;"></ins></p></ins></div><p>At the end of this message I list the following:</p><p>1) <b>The transformation and the ascension continue undiminished</b>.</p><p>2)<b> It has been successful, to have some leaders of nations agree to a soul transfer</b>.</p><p>3) <b>The fronts of the armed forces without light crumble</b>.</p><p>4) The light warriors begin to realize their victory. In these days remain like a rock within self.</p></div><div><p><font style="font-size:16px;">Immediately address each insecurity and each doubt by researching their traces, the cause of them; and eliminate these consistently and thoroughly. Anchor yourself in the vibration of love, which can immediately define your life, so you consciously take care of it. Overcome the thinking and feeling in linear structures. Become the bow, whose string relaxes after each tension, yes, has to relax, so that the next arrow can be sent on it’s way. Which means: Relax, be the bow and not the arrow.</font></p></div><p><font style="font-size:16px;">God’s empire comes to you, after you have realized, how you attract it and tempt it into your presence. After you have accomplished the greatest of all deeds: LETTING GO! Life comes, after all false concepts have been eliminated; Love is all-present, after you can expect more of yourself than before. Letting go, which is even very modern today, is understood by only a few.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">Also the “trust in God” is rarely understood, because mainly those should rely on it, who seem unsuitable for the demands of this world.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">Many assume and many err. Because actually are Letting go and trust in God the all-healing servants of every human consciousness, which wants to complete itself. Dear Creators of many worlds, who you are! Create the kind of world from now on, on which you would like to live. Be and live, what you expect from the world. Be the change, be the way and everything will adjust immediately to your decision. So it is up to you and because, what is not yours, we, the Ascended Masters, who create the corridor of light for this Mankind, so that all will arrive in the Light, will take care of it.</font></p><p><font style="font-size:16px;">The days lose the power over you, so you learn to see the great arc and recognize yourselves as eternal consciousness. To live, as it complies with you, or live, as many conditionings prescribe it to you and offer it to you? You have the choice!</font></p><div><p><font style="font-size:16px;">We remain near you. We remain with you. We share the sleeping locations with you. We carry you, when you are tired and we hold you, when you are in danger of falling. Please let yourselves totally in to us. We are the ASCENDED MASTERS. Having arrived with the Enlightened, Who is here</font></p><p>BUDDHA</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.lichtweltverlag.com/de/blog/index.html">http://www.lichtweltverlag.com/de/blog/index.html</a></p><p><b>first published on November 17, 2013 in</b></p><p><a href="http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/">www.stankovuniversallaw.com</a></p><p><font style="font-size:22px;"><b>translated by Franz</b></font></p></div></div></div>Buddha : Life – Part Ihttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/buddha-life-part-i2013-11-29T11:01:55.000Z2013-11-29T11:01:55.000ZAndreas Botsarishttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/AndreasBotsaris<div><p></p><p></p><p></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span class="font-size-5"><a href="http://amargonavtblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/buddha-life-part-i.html">Buddha : Life – Part I</a></span></h3><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:16px;">--..So how is a Buddha born, how do you make a Buddha, how does Buddha-ship emerge?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">First it is true for each human Being, whether he is disappointed of life or he bathes in happiness of his life, to reach the null-point, when all interest in it has been lost. I am poor, it does not interest me, I am unhappy, it does not interest me, I am rich, it does not interest me, I am happy, satisfied and proud, yet, it does not interest me. Disinterest in all – in the sense of being untouched by it, what this wonderful illusion offers – is the morning kiss of the Creator and brings everything on its way.....</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:16px;"><a href="http://interactive.wxxi.org/files/images/highlights/Buddha.jpg" target="_blank"><img width="540" class="align-center" src="http://interactive.wxxi.org/files/images/highlights/Buddha.jpg?width=540" alt="Buddha.jpg?width=540" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span class="font-size-6" style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-size:22px;"><b>Buddha</b></span></span><br /> </span></p><h1 class="entry-title"><span style="color:#0000FF;">Life – Part I</span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-size:22px;"><b><br /> channeled by Jahn J Kassl </b></span><br /> <br /></span></h1><p></p><div><span style="font-size:16px;">You have to give up life in order to encounter Life. In order to live, you have to die the Great Death </span><span style="font-size:16px;">and reach enlightenment.</span></div><div><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">I am BUDDHA</span></div><div><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Enlightened Co-creators, as such I talk to you, because after a long absence I have returned to Earth.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;"><b>Enlightened Beings border the way and through this corridor, </b><b>mankind cleaves the way towards Heaven.</b></span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">What keeps you, what keeps you back, what is it, that happens again and again, which lets you fail and fall back or lets you stop? Why does enlightenment remain such a distant goal and why did it not become the way? If one asks you, how is life, you say: “It could be better.” And if one asks you why, you say: “Because what I long for is not being fulfilled. ”So you argue with God, with yourself and with the world and you miss Life while it happens.</span><br /> Others on the other hand say: “My life is wonderful.” Or “I have achieved everything.” And you point to the transitory accomplishments, which no star in heaven would change its place for.<br /> One group is frustrated with life and the other is bored; and each type of human Being is far from being enlightened, because they are so distant from God: The frustrated One, because life is not being fulfilled and the “satisfied” One, because his life in this world seems to be quite successful.<br /> What makes the difference? Nothing.</div><p></p><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Both characters succumb to the mistake, that a successful life is subject to the influences of this illusory world. As long as it is so and this error remains, everything will essentially stay as is; inner and outer worlds remain, which create pure illusions; is the heart an unpolished vessel and the treasure, which acts in the Inner of a human Being, is untouched. Life, really awake and alive, conscious and mindful, has rarely anything to do with life, as you still find it and live it today. Thereby it is mainly this stage of being, whereon you were active so far, to be recognized as pure illusion, which you have created yourself for the sole purpose of seeing through it and leaving it.</span></div><p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-size:16px;">To live in the world, yet not be of this world, to fulfill assignments, yet never lose self in them, because he who looses self in his activities can not carry out the tasks given to him from God and can not turn to the main question: what is it, that let me here?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">I speak to you about life, as you got used to the never-ending cycles of death like slaves on a galley, who got used to an inevitable fate. Let us break through these conditions and I say to you: <b>the enlightenment is your natural state </b><b>and the lack of this knowledge developed solely, </b><b>because you moved away from your divine nature.</b></span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">So how is a Buddha born, how do you make a Buddha, how does Buddha-ship emerge?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">First it is true for each human Being, whether he is disappointed of life or he bathes in happiness of his life, to reach the null-point, when all interest in it has been lost. I am poor, it does not interest me, I am unhappy, it does not interest me, I am rich, it does not interest me, I am happy, satisfied and proud, yet, it does not interest me. Disinterest in all – in the sense of being untouched by it, what this wonderful illusion offers – is the morning kiss of the Creator and brings everything on its way.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">After that the real ones, the really essential questions about life are drawn up and after that enlightenment is only a stone’s throw away.</span><br /></span></p><div style="margin:10px 0px;text-align:center;float:none;"></div><p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-size:16px;">It was always like that, at all times and in all times; and also at my time – when I carried the “way of the middle”, the empathy and the wisdom of life, into villages and cities – it was not any different.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">It is now very important for humans, who have entered the path of enlightenment, to look through the world and your life as an illusion and to turn away from happiness or misfortune, so that the process of enlightenment remains in its momentum or gains in its momentum.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">To view this life as an illusion, does not mean, to deny this life. Who would deny the illusion of a magician, as he is totally absorbed in it? It is important to view life as a magic-cosmic play and yet do not succumb to this game. And you succumb to it, if you get lost in unnecessary activities, which have nothing to do with your actual life assignments.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">A human Being comes to earth with two things:</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">1) with the assignment, to look through this illusion and pierce through the veil of lack of knowledge and</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">2) with the assignment to implement his individual assignments.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">This means, that a human Being is only entitled to lose himself in life, to a certain extent, if he follows the matrix of his blueprint; every human Being, who does not live accordingly, wastes his life and is imprisoned in this illusionary world for much longer. This is of utmost importance, as the worlds are released and ascend, now, as humans are closer to the day of self-salvation than ever.<b> </b></span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;"><b>Follow your activities, if they are interlocked with </b><b>your assignments, let go of all activities, which have </b><b>nothing to do with self and your divine appointment </b><b>for this world.</b><b> </b></span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Let go of all humans, all families, all religions and all communities, which do not exist in your blueprint, because he who leads such a substitute life suffers from misfortune and finds pleasure in transitory happiness like a child, which forgets new toys in a corner – after these have been tried out for a while.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">The distance from the essential, the denial of your assignments, the lack of courage, so you are asked to change, are like a weight of lead, which binds you to this world and never lets you to take off and ascend to heaven. These words shall serve you, shall give you stimulus, to give up your transitory life and accept your eternal life.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">How to give up, how to accept?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Giving up, because you recognize your inner dependency on the world of illusion and you dissolve it; accepting, because you devote yourself without compromise to your divine assignments and you give your longing for union in God a free run. Because you do not brake a racing horse, and if you do nonetheless, it will slacken, it gets lazy and it gets ill, until you do not even recognize it as such and it asks for the shot of mercy.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Many human Beings can be described as “lame”, “slackened” and “slow” race horses, which lose themselves in the hurdle race of t his world and which shun the race track, as a lazy worker shuns work and the busy One shuns to examine the sense of his activities.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">A medal, two sides and all human Beings are affected, who came to this world, in order to live Life and not to act out a life, which was superimposed on them.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">The distance from God is for many human Beings still very large, like an already extinguished star from earth.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">And your ascension, your enlightenment are always bound to love in God and to the experience of God. The big cosmic wheels only merge until micro and macro cosmos fuse together, what is expressed in the fact, that the human Being begins to think and feel in terms of great cosmic connections.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">These words are meant for those, who strive for enlightenment, yet over and over again get lost and loose self. And also to those, who do not give any space to their longing for God, because they are busy with things, which belong to the transitory and lifeless world.<b> </b><b>Do the right thing, by doing, what you have come for, </b><b>every other activity is wrong.</b></span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">This is the only mistake in life, which you have to attribute to yourself, so you arrive beyond the veil, after you have done your work, and have to recognize, that you slaved at the wrong construction site.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Ascension and enlightenment are siblings, which cannot be separated from each other, because the enlightened One has ascended at the moment of his enlightenment, no matter on which earth he found himself, and the ascended One pierces all veils of illusion, achieves enlightenment and comes home to God’s All-that-Is.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Today, as you wait for the day X and have longed for so many events, it is given to you, that each transformation has to happen within yourself, before these fruits on the great tree of life, the All-that-Is reality, manifest.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">In these days there are two things which are very important for you:</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">1.) To live YOUR life in accordance with your blueprint.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">2.) To dissolve the inner bindings to the transitory life and live your universal assignments with purpose, with courage and with wisdom; to serve your individual plan of creation and to do everything possible, to fulfill it, no matter what the cost is, with every fiber of your Being!</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">So what is your life?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Is it what you do now, is it what occupies you today? Now, while you listen to these words or read them? Have you filled your heart with enough energy and your spirit with enough will-power, so that your absolutely unique track of life reveals itself?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">A bride groom, who does not court his bride, will lose her; if a human Being pursues the spiritual path only half-heartedly, the successes</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">will be miserable.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Were you without compromise, when it was necessary to be without compromise, or have you stepped back and were satisfied with lower hanging grapes?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Is your life a repetition of succeeding events or is your life a unique expression of your Being with unique assignments, which you are conscious of and which you fulfill consistently today and with all possible care?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Where does your life fail? Where does your life succeed? Where does your soul reveal to you, that neither success nor failure have any significance, because they belong to the transitory nature?</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Many questions, which bring you into the light and into self, many questions, which – the more you look at them without compromise and without fear – can eliminate all tensions and mistakes from your life. Mankind is healed, because amongst you are enlightened Ones, who deny their enlightenment consciously, so that they contribute to the ascension as a human Being amongst humans.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">And I talk to you about it on the day, when we are joined in the Light, on the day, when new fields of grace have been created, on the day,</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">which brings wisdom and joy, far removed from any self-deception.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">When enlightened Ones do not reveal themselves as such, in order to better serve their assignments, then it has reached a measure of love and empathy for a world and the humans, which is not exceeded by anything and cannot be surpassed by anything.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">I talk to you now about that and the transformation, which proceeds strongly and in great steps, because you have arrived in the Light of the Masters. We have gathered all around you, until you understand and recognize, that you have your spiritual home in our midst and in the heavenly realms, and that your place can only be there, where the light and the love spread to an unlimited extent.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">I am the enlightened One.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">I have walked through fire; I have overcome the world of darkness and have eliminated my self-deceptions. There, where I am, is your place.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">You only need to recognize it and totally open to that truth, whereby you are able to dismantle your tent, which does not protect you from the wind or can withstand any storm. It is up to you – always – all is always up to you and everything is always possible on account of you.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:16px;">Where you are not, there is nothing, and where you are, there is everything, what you are. Internalize this, internalize this truth: You are All.</span><br /> I AM<br /> <span style="font-size:20px;">Buddha</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><strong><font size="5">channeled by Jahn J Kassl </font></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:16px;"><a href="http://www.lichtweltverlag.com/de/blog/index.html" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://www.lichtweltverlag.com/de/blog/index.html</font></a><br /><font size="3"><b>published on November 17, 2013 in</b><br /></font><a href="http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/" target="_blank"><font size="3">www.stankovuniversallaw.com</font></a></span></p></div>Buddha's Teachings 2https://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/buddhas-teachings-22009-10-23T00:30:37.000Z2009-10-23T00:30:37.000ZKarlohttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/Karlo<div>Here is some of his wisdom:-A man is not to be considered a good man just because he is an able talker.-Profound truth, so difficult to perceive, difficult to understand, tranquilizing and sublime, is not to be gained by mere reasoning and is perceived only by the wise.-Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.-Right focus brings about reality.--Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.-The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.-Avoid aiming at the ruin of others.-Living well, favours a serene death and rebirth in a happy state.-One should understand according to reality and true wisdom.-Lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.-A GOOD friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.-To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.-A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.-Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.-Conquer a liar with truth.-Holding fast to the Truth they shall reach the topmost height.-You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person will not be found: You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.-Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.-Only the experience of nirvana makes it comprehensible to the wise.</div>Buddha's Historyhttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/buddhas-history2009-10-22T04:24:30.000Z2009-10-22T04:24:30.000ZKarlohttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/Karlo<div>Buddha was a great person. I admire him a lot. His teachings helped me grow my consciousness. Here is part of his history:History records that the Buddha was born as a prince in an ancient kingdom of northern India. Although as a youth he was protected by his father in beautiful palaces, as he grew older the Buddha encountered what we must all face: the inevitable sorrows of life. He saw the loss of all things we hold dear, and the aging, sickness, and death that come to every human being. Seeing this, he chose to renounce his royal title and leave his palace to become a seeker of truth, searching for the end of human sorrow, searching for freedom in the face of the ceaseless round of birth and death.For some years the Buddha practiced as an austere yogi in the forests of India. In time he realized that his extreme asceticism had brought him no more freedom than his previous indulgence in worldly pleasure. Instead, he saw that human freedom must come from practicing a life of inner and outer balance, and he called this discovery the Middle Path.Having seen this, the Buddha seated himself under a Bodhi tree and vowed to find liberation in the face of the forces that bring suffering to humankind. He felt himself assailed by these forces - by fear, attachment, greed, hatred, delusion, temptation, and doubt. The Buddha sat in the midst of these forces with his heart open and his mind clear until he could see to the depths of human consciousness, until he discovered a place of peace at the center of them all. This was his enlightenment, the discovery of Nirvana, the freeing of his heart from entanglement in all the conditions of the world.</div>Buddha's Teachingshttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/buddhas-teachings2009-10-21T22:50:42.000Z2009-10-21T22:50:42.000ZKarlohttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/Karlo<div>Live in Joy,in Love,Even among those who hate.Live in Joy,in Health,Even among the afflicted.Live in Joy,in Peace,Even among the troubled.Look within.Be still.Free from fear and attachment,Know the sweet joy of the way.Master your senses,What you taste and smell,What you see,What you hear.In all thingsBe a Masterof what you do,and say,and think.BE FREE.Are you quiet?Calm your body.Calm your mind.By your own effortsWaken yourself,Watch yourself,And live Joyfully.Follow the truth of The Way.Reflect upon it.Make it your own.Live it.It will always sustain you.Follow The WiseHow joyful to look upon the Awakened,And to keep the company with the Wise.Follow then the Shinning Ones,The Wise,The Awakened,The Loving,For they know how to work and forebear.But if you cannot find Friendor Master to go with you,Travel on alone -Like a king who has given away his kingdom,Like an elephant in the forest.If the traveler can findA Virtuous and Wise companion,Let him go with him Joyfully,And overcome the dangers of the way.Follow them,As the moon follows the path of the stars.</div>Buddha's Last Wordshttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/buddhas-last-words2009-10-21T22:30:00.000Z2009-10-21T22:30:00.000ZKarlohttps://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/members/Karlo<div>"Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All component things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation. Do your best."Then the Buddha lapsed into the Jhana stages or meditative absorption. Going from level to level, one after the other, ever deeper and deeper. Then He came out of the meditative absorption for the last time. Then He passed into Jhana a little way; and from this Jhana He passed into Nibbana leaving nothing whatever behind that can cause rebirth again in this or any other world.The passing away of the Buddha occurred in 543 B.C. on a full-moon day in the month of May, known in the Indian calendar as Vesak.</div>