The Buddha practiced loving-kindness towards all beings – gods, men, animals and ghosts and this is called Universal Love. If the Buddha wanted to find happiness for himself alone, he could have done so long before the time he actually attained the eternal happiness of Nibbana. He could have attained that with much less difficulty also. What he thought was that entering into that eternal happiness alone while so many were suffering would be like an unkind mother enjoying a delicacy alone while her hungry children were looking on. So, the Buddha, out of compassion for all living beings, plunged himself into the suffering Samsara (round of birth and death) and took the longer and more hazardous route to reach the farther shore. He had to live many lives and the number of lives that he spent in his self imposed “training course” is incalculable
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:55:35 +0000
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