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Life Story of the Buddha with Alex Gillette

Join us Wednesday October 16th at 7pm as one of our very favorite Dharma Bums Alex Gillette tells the "Life Story of the Buddha". This is a beautiful story and great opportunity to learn more about the history of Buddhism. Events at the Dharma Bum Temple are always free and all are welcome, just show up! Siddhartha Gautama, better known as the Buddha, (563-483 BCE) was according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India in the 6th-5th centuries BCE. The events of his life are largely legendary, but he is considered an actual historical figure and a younger contemporary of Mahavira also known as Vardhamana, who established the tenets of Jainism shortly before Siddhartha's time. According to Buddhist texts, a prophecy was given at Siddhartha's birth that he would become either a powerful king or great spiritual leader. His father, fearing he would become the latter if he were exposed to the suffering of the world, protected him from seeing or experiencing anything unpleasant or upsetting for the first 29 years of his life. One day (or over the course of a few) he slipped through his father's defenses and saw what Buddhists refer to as the Four Signs: 1. Aged person 2. Sick person 3. Dead person 4. Religious ascetic Through these signs, he realized that he, too, could become sick, would grow old, would die, and would lose everything he loved. He understood that the life he was living guaranteed he would experience suffering and, further, that all of life was essentially defined by suffering caused by craving and desires. He therefore followed the example of the religious ascetic, tried different teachers and disciplines, and finally attained enlightenment through his own means and became known as the Buddha (“awakened” or “enlightened” one). Afterwards, he preached his “middle way” of non-attachment from sense objects and renunciation of ignorance and illusion through his Four Noble Truths, the Wheel of Becoming, and the Eightfold Path to enlightenment. After his death, his disciples preserved and developed his teachings until they were spread from India to other countries by the Mauryan king Ashoka the Great (268-232 BCE). From the time of Ashoka on, Buddhism has continued to flourish and, presently, is one of the major world religions.