"The stories say that before his birth the mother, the Queen of Lumbini
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The Buddhist tradition regards Lumbini, present-day Nepal, to be the birthplace of the Buddha.[50][note 1] He grew up in Kapilavastu.[note 1] The exact site of ancient Kapilavastu is unknown. It may have been either Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh, present-day India,[33] or Tilaurakot, present-day Nepal.[51] Both places belonged to the Sakya territory, and are located only 15 miles apart from each other.[51]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Conception_and_birth
a small Indian Kingdom had a dream, "A beautiful White elephant offered the Queen a Lotus Blossom and then entered the side of her body." When sages were asked to interpret the dream they predicted the queen would give birth to a son destined to either become a great leader or a holy man. One day, they said he would either conquer the world or become an enlightened being, The Buddha.
another narrator: "People like stories, it is one of the way we learn. The story of the Buddha's life is an archetypal journey. But, it is a means to an end it is not an end in itself.
Another narrator: "Within 10 months of conception as a tree lowered a branch to support her a baby boy was born emerging from her side."
My thought, "If it was within 10 months and because she was royalty it is possible this was a caesarian birth because medicine for royalty usually then in all countries greatly exceeded the medicine for the common man or woman. Also, this is 2500 years ago so we really don't know what medical technologies were present. IN ancient Egypt, for example, they were very advanced like this too. Just look a mummification of one indication of this. Or, it might be thought of as simply a supernatural occurance where the baby levitated out of the womb. However, then we are told the mother died about 7 days later which might be because of a caesarian section without anti-biotics to prevent infections from setting in in a tropical climate like you will find in both Nepal and India in that region." end note.
previous narrator: "7 days later the queen died."
"The world is filled with pain and sorrow" the Buddha would one day teach. But I have found a serenity" he told his followers, "that you can find too."
New narrator poet: "Everyone understands suffering. It's something we all share with everybody else.
It's at once ultimately intimate and ultimately shared. So, Buddha says, "That's a place to begin." That's where we begin.
Previous earlier narrator: "No matter your circumstances you will end up losing everything you love you will end up aging you will end up ill.
The problem is we need to figure out how to make that all be all right.
previous narrator: "What he actually said was that life was blissful. There's joy everywhere only we're closed off to it."
His teachings were mostly about opening up the joyful or blissful nature of reality. That the bliss and the joy is in the transitoriness of life.
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PBSApr 8, 2010 - Award-winning filmmaker David Grubin tells the story of the Buddha's life narrated by Richard Gere, a journey especially relevant to our own ...- I recorded this video on my TIVO and started to watch it and realized that many of you might benefit too. Then when I looked for a way to quote my source I was very happy that I can also share this video with you online if you wish by clicking on the word button for the source.
- So, if you are looking for the bliss or joy in life watch a baby play, watch any young puppy or animal play, watch a butterfly fly by. Walk or drive to the beach and watch the waves crash. Observe and enjoy the amazingness of life all around you. Be happy therefore in each magic moment in life. This is the secret of life.
- If we spend all our lives worrying about pain and dying we are already dead.
- Born. died 20 buried 60.
- So, rejoice in each and every moment you have left.
- Each moment is bliss!
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