May 4, 2012 by Ipohgal
This year’s Vesak Day falls on 5th May, 2012. Vesak , is observed during the full moon of May. Vesak celebrates Buddha’s Birthday, or Buddha Day, and is celebrated in honor of the birth, enlightenment and passing of the Buddha.
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Happy Wesak Day to you and your family Ipogal!
Happy Vesak day to you and your family. May you be guided by the Buddha Dhamma. Sadhu ! Sadhu ! Sadhu !
Happy Wesak Day to you and your family 🙂
Hi everyone,
Happy Vesak Day to you too 🙂 May the Buddha’s compassion and wisdom guide us all 🙂
A little story for Vesak.
When Buddha was enlightened, he felt that it would be very hard to teach the Dhamma.
Enough with teaching the Dhamma
That even I found hard to reach
For it will never be perceived
By those who live in lust and hate.
Luckily for us, Brahma Sahampati, came to the Buddha to request him to consider otherwise.
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Let the sorrowless one survey this human breed,
Engulfed in sorrow, overcome by birth and old age.
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Let the Blessed One teach the Dhamma,
There will be those who will understand.
“Then, having understood Brahma’s invitation, out of compassion for beings, I surveyed the world with the eye of an Awakened One. As I did so, I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace & danger in the other world. Just as in a pond of blue or red or white lotuses, some lotuses — born & growing in the water — might flourish while immersed in the water, without rising up from the water; some might stand at an even level with the water; while some might rise up from the water and stand without being smeared by the water — so too, surveying the world with the eye of an Awakened One, I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace & danger in the other world.
“Having seen this, I answered Brahma Sahampati in verse:
Open for them are the doors to the Deathless,
Let those with ears now show their faith.
Thinking it would be troublesome, O Brahma,
I did not speak the Dhamma subtle and sublime.
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As they said, the rest is history.
Hi 16LeechStreet,
Thank you for the link. Isn’t it wonderful that the Buddha changed his mind and decided to share with us sentient beings the beauty and wonders of his wisdom? 🙂
Happy belated Vesak Day to you!