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Very Special Thanks to all generous participants, in local and from the distance i.e. Montreal, Toronto and USA, for faithful and kindly contributing your time, four requisites and strength to participate the Kathina Ceremony in Bodhikaram Temple which was held on October 22, 2011 with happily meritorious activity. Our unity has brought us to the success in wholesome acts towards prosperity and happiness and to be strengthening our faith for preserving Buddhism and Khmer Culture.
May the Fourfold Blessings of the Buddha i.e. Longevity, Beauty, Happiness and Strength be yours! May all beings in the universe be at peace and happiness!
The man who was to become the Buddha was born Siddhattha Gotama around 2,600 years ago as a Prince of a small territory near what is now the Indian-Nepalese border. Though he was raised in splendid comfort, enjoying aristocratic status, no amount of material pleasure could satisify the enquiring and philosophic nature of the young man. At the age of 29 he left palace and family to search for a deeper meaning in the secluded forests and remote mountains of North-East India. He studied under the wisest religious teachers and philosophers of his time, learning all they had to offer, but he found it was not enough. He then struggled alone with the path of self- mortification, taking that practice to the extremes of asceticism, but still to no avail. Read more...
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If we look at our life, very simply, in a straightforward way, we see that it is marked with frustration and pain. This is because we attempt to secure our relationship with the "world out there", by solidifying our experiences in some concrete way. For example, we might have dinner with someone we admire very much, everything goes just right, and when we get home later we begin to fantasise about all the things we can do with our new-found friend, places we can go etc. We are going through the process of trying to cement our relationship. Perhaps, the next time we see our friend, she/he has a headache and is curt with us; we feel snubbed, hurt, all our plans go out the window. The problem is that the "world out there" is constantly changing, everything is impermanent and it is impossible to make a permanent relationship with anything, at all. Read more...
