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The Buddha

The Enlightened One Siddhartha Gautama

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Buddha’s path is a peaceful one. In His journey, Buddha spent most of His entire life seeking enlightenment, and He achieved it. He then gifted the world His wisdom by sharing His teachings and work through His organization—Buddhism.

In His search, The Buddha learned that the only way a soul could evolve and obtain a heightened level of enlightenment is through separation from the pursuit of material goods and pleasures. He discovered that the soul attains humility after detachment from materialism is achieved. He learned that it is by being humble, that one protects oneself from falling into the traps of vanity, greed, and living for pleasure through materialism. Humility and compassion towards others assure love. Creating love and harmony is how one evolves. 

One of the greatest teachings that The Buddha taught is that you will be protected from suffering by making peaceful choices. By following a peaceful path in this world, making harmonious and compassionate choices, you will save your soul from suffering and attain the state of Nirvana and experience bliss in your afterlife.

Lord Buddha, also frequently known as Siddhartha Gautama and Shakyamuni, was born in Lumbini, in what is today southern Nepal. Named Siddhartha Gautama at birth, Buddha incarnated as a Prince in a small kingdom just below the Himalayan foothills. His father was a chief of the Shakya clan. It is said that twelve years before His birth the Brahmins prophesied that He would become either a Universal Monarch or a Great Sage. Brahmins are the caste from which Hindu priests are drawn, and are responsible for teaching and maintaining sacred knowledge. 

Buddha, or Siddhartha, spent His early years enjoying all of the pleasures and indulgences that His father’s wealth and power could provide Him. He grew up in princely luxury, shielded from the hardships of the outside world. He was schooled by Brahmins and trained in archery, swordsmanship, wrestling, swimming, and running. At age 16, He married the beautiful princess Yashodhara, who gave birth to their son. 

Buddha continued His life with all the comforts and luxuries that He has always known. 

However, when the Prince was 29, He encountered a sudden inner spiritual crisis. On a trip to the city, Siddhartha saw several people starving, homeless, and sick—visibly suffering. Through all of these years, He was unaware of the suffering that existed in the world outside His mansion walls. He was sheltered from the realities of how many people do not live as He does, comforts with privileges—but instead they suffer. Buddha felt overwhelmed with empathy and compassion for the people who were struggling. This began Siddhartha’s search for clarity as to why there was suffering in the world. 

Siddhartha felt strongly about wanting to understand why some people suffered and others did not. He was determined to find the answers, and thus changed the course of the life which was already planned for Him. 

Unable to enjoy the riches and comforts of His lavish lifestyle any longer, Siddhartha made a life-altering change at this point. He denounced His riches, comforts, and His future kingdom. He decided that the only way to find out why suffering existed was to leave His privileged world and live with the impoverished to experience what it was like to be starving, homeless, and struggling—in hopes of finding clarity. 

The prince left His father’s kingdom and the royal life behind and entered the forest where He cut off His hair and exchanged His royal robes for the simple dress of a hunter. From that point on, He ate whatever was placed in His begging bowl. Early in His wanderings He encountered Bimbisara, the king of Magadha and eventual patron of the Buddha, who, upon learning that the ascetic was a prince, asked Him to share His kingdom. The prince declined but agreed to return when He had achieved enlightenment.

Over the next six years, the Prince studied meditation and learned to achieve deep states of blissful concentration. But, He quickly matched the attainments of His teachers and concluded that despite their achievements, they would be reborn after their death. He next joined a group of five ascetics (monks)—Kondañña, Assaji, Bhaddiya, Vappa, and Mahānāma—who had devoted themselves to the practice of extreme forms of self-mortification which involves the practice of self-denial with the belief that this way of practicing could lead one to Nirvana, to liberation. Extreme fasting, denial of clothes and shelter, sitting in the same posture for long hours, not killing insects and life-forms even if they are harmful are few forms of self-mortification. 

While meditating in the woods, Buddha was found by a milkmaid named Sujata. She mistook Him for a tree spirit because He was so emaciated. Concerned, she offered Him some rice milk which revived Him. He ended His asceticism and went to the nearby village of Bodh Gaya where He sat on a bed of grass beneath a Bodhi tree and made a vow to God to remain there until He is given the answer of why there is suffering in the world. 

Now known as Buddha, He remained in the vicinity of the tree for seven weeks, savoring His enlightenment. He meditated, fasted and prayed to God to answer His question. Finally, after the seventh week of deep meditation, Buddha received His answer from God. 

Buddha was given a clear vision and message from God Almighty explaining the answer that He sought clarity on for so many years. 

Buddha saw a vision in His Third Eye of a circle with a wheel inside it. God told Him that “every soul will re-birth on Earth, until they have been purified of all their sins and mistakes—no matter how many lifetimes it takes. Once a soul reaches its level of perfection and is deemed pure and holy, free of all sins, then they are allowed to live full-time in Nirvana, Heaven, with Me (God). Until then, suffering is a necessary step for souls to learn from and to clear up their negative Karmic debt that they have accumulated from errors in past lives.” 

God told Buddha to teach people this principle of life on Earth. He also asked Buddha to teach people not feel sorry for the suffering because their circumstances were created by themselves, but instead to feel and give compassion to them and to help them. God showed Buddha it is a mistake for people to turn their back on the suffering, especially if they have so much more and are not suffering themselves. He enlightened Buddha that the wise choice is to turn towards the suffering and offer them relief and mercy. 

Buddha adopted these lessons from God, along with another important one. Buddha also learned that it is only through peaceful thoughts that non-harmful actions are created; and it is only through peaceful choices that one will create positive karmic blessings and not the negative karmic consequences that will cause them to experience negative suffering someday, as well as continuing to re-birth on Earth. These ideas became the foundation of Buddha’s teachings, known as Buddhism. 

Jesus is King. He is our Lord and Savior. Jesus was given a special mission by God to come and save us from the mistakes that Creator saw we were making. The mistakes that God saw that mankind was making would cause us suffering because they would result in negative karmic consequences and lessons for us have to learn from. Jesus wanted to rescue us from these painful outcomes that we would face both here on Earth and in our Afterlives. He was sent to us to teach us what God’s wishes and rules were for us to be allowed to live in God’s world (Earth). His teachings were intended to protect us from our own mistakes. Jesus taught us that by heeding God’s Word, we could create rewards, which would bring positive things (karmic blessings) into our lives both on Earth and on the Otherside. He educated us that if we disobeyed our Creator’s rules, we would suffer unfortunate experiences (karmic consequences) that would result in undesirable circumstances in our future. Instead of being allowed fully into Heaven’s Paradise, our consequences would send us into a lower, more painful dimension (Purgatory) to learn from our errors; as well as being continued in future incarnations. 

Jesus came to enlighten us that on our path of free will, we would have to make choices. Depending on what we chose, those choices would have either a pleasant or a painful outcome for us. He taught us that this fate applies to our Earthly lives and when we leave this dimension—our Afterlife. He showed us that we would live on after when our physical bodies no longer existed. He brought us insight that the only path to a happy Afterlife, free of pain and suffering, was the road that followed His teachings and obeyed God’s wishes—which is also the only path to Heaven.

Jesus came to Me and said: “I am the Light of the World,” and then asked Me to share the message. He was given a special Holy Mission to save all souls from the pain and suffering that we create through our own karmic choices. He came to save and protect us from the un-favorable and painful future fate that exists in Purgatory, Hell, and even in our lives here on Earth. He was given to us, like a gift, to rescue us from our unwise choices that would result in miserable outcomes for us. He showed us the way to protect ourselves from pain and misery and become eligible to receive the blessing and wonderful bliss of being allowed to live in God’s Heavenly Paradise—free from suffering. 

He was created and entrusted by God with the wisdom, strength, and power to have absolute authority over us. Jesus is The Master Teacher to us and to the entire Universe. He is like no other. Jesus appeared to Me and said that He is a “True God.” He was chosen to do God’s Will at the highest level possible. Jesus was anointed by God with every spiritual gift possible including miraculous powers and all knowledge at a God level—for all of eternity. He is an Ascended Master, and our Lord and Savior. He is Christ. 

Jesus also said that He is the “leader above all of the other Ascended Masters, Spiritual Guides, and Angels in Heaven” and that "They all work under Him.” The vision that He showed Me was Him standing a couple feet taller than all the other Ascended Masters (and other Guides and Angels) and standing in the middle (above Them), leading Them. He also appeared much ‘larger’ than any of Them. 

Christ sits at the Right Hand of God, serving Him from Heaven. I have seen Him sitting on a huge Golden Throne, watching over the Universe with God, governing everyone and everything—all the time.  

Jesus is the Light of the World 

From the very beginning, Jesus showed signs of miracles. He even entered our world through one—the immaculate conception. 

God has the power to do whatever He desires, and He showed us this by bringing Jesus into the world in a miraculous way.

Mother Mary conceived Jesus not through traditional means with a man. She, instead, simply received Him, as a virgin unexpectedly and miraculously in Her womb. Mother Mary received a divine visitation from Archangel Gabriel who was the messenger who told Her of Her gift from God and Her mission to birth and raise the Holy Son of God. Jesus was created and given to both Mary and our world in a sinless manner. He was created without original sin.

While Jesus was here on Earth He was largely human because He had a human mother, but the sinful nature of humans was not passed down to Jesus because He did not have a biological father. The human nature of Jesus came from Mary, but the Heavenly nature came from God and the Holy Spirit. As a result, Jesus was both God and human while He was on Earth. In Heaven, He is entirely Divine. 

God sent Archangel Gabriel to Nazareth with a message for Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph. The Angel told Mary that She would bear a Son, whom She would name Jesus. "He will be mighty," the Angel said, "and will be named the Son of the Most High God." 

Mary was surprised, as She was a virgin. "The Holy Spirit will come upon You, and God's power will rest on You," the Angel said. Mary responded, "I am the Lord's servant." 

When Joseph found out that Mary was expecting a child, rather than believing She was pregnant by the Holy Spirit, He believed that She had been unfaithful to Him. With a broken heart, Joseph decided that He should end Their engagement.  

However, something interesting happened. Mary received another visit from the Angel Gabriel, who told Her that the Holy Spirit would come upon Her and that "You will conceive in your womb and have a son, and you shall call Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give Him David's throne, and He will rule over Jacob's house forever, and His kingdom will have no end."  Joseph was not aware of this visit.

Then, not long after leaving Mary, Joseph had His own visitation. "Do not be afraid, Joseph, son of David, to take Mary your wife into your home," God’s Angel advised, "Because this child has been conceived in Her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a Son, whom you should name Jesus because He will redeem His people from their sins."

When Joseph awoke, He followed the Angel's guidance. Rather than leaving Mary, He welcomed Her into His home, married Her, and awaited the birth of Jesus. 

Jesus continued to show signs that set Him apart from others. He went through a normal maturation process like all other growing kids. However, He was endowed with God's Spirit and favor from the moment He was born. Thus, He was far ahead of other young men when it came to absorbing God's Word and spiritual concepts. 

Jesus referred to God as His “Father” openly since childhood, never wavering. Luke's account of Jesus's life includes a story about something that happened when He was 12 years old. On a journey back from Jerusalem, Jesus had gone into a temple, unbeknownst to Mary and Joseph. He was missing for several days. They frantically looked for Him and were worried sick. When They finally found Him, He was seen engaged in serious discussions with some of Jerusalem's most learned teachers. Rather than being annoyed by someone so young, these men were stunned by Jesus's questions and His mastery of complex theological issues. Luke’s account says, “They were astounded by His intellect and responses.” Mary inquired about where Jesus had been. He responded, confused as though it would have been obvious, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”  

Jesus became a human to take on the corrupted fallen nature of mankind, live obediently within that nature, restore our existence to new life, and condemn iniquity in the flesh, thus creating a new way to be human. 

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The Buddha

WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE

When Buddha visits Me, this is what He looks like. He is medium tall in height and has a thicker build. He has dark brown hair that I usually see Him wear up in a bun on the top of His head. He has large brown eyes that slope down slightly on the sides. His skin is tan. He wears a gold robe that that only covers Him partially on top, which runs diagonally across His upper half, revealing His stomach. The robe then fully covers Him completely from the waist down.


When The Buddha visits Me, He has a peaceful energy, which is so impactful that it fills Me and the room I’m in. He sends Me the most serene sensations, while I am linked to Him during His visitations with Me, putting Me in a state of complete serenity. He speaks slowly and deliberately with meaning and purpose in every word He says. His voice is soothing and has a lower tone to it. The Buddha is extraordinarily peaceful, strong and compassionate, leaving absolutely no doubt that Buddha has achieved the level of wisdom of becoming one the Four highest-ranking Ascended Masters in the Universe. 

Signs Buddha Gives

WHEN HE IS PRESENT

If you are lucky to be visited by The Buddha and receive His wisdom, here are some signs that you can look for that indicate He may be visiting you. When Buddha visits Me, the room will become extremely calm. I will see a Buddha statue or Buddha head floating in front of Me, or a peace symbol.

He will announce Himself as He is coming through at the same, saying, “Siddhartha,” “Siddhartha Gautama,” “Buddha,” or “Wise One.” I will then become merged with His soul, as He comes close to Me to receive His full message. It is always a powerful and blissful experience that I cherish.  

Buddha taught what He learned, and continues to teach through His chosen Oracles, in hopes that everyone will finish their cycle of rebirths on Earth, so they can live in Nirvana with God - and be released from further reincarnations, where pain and suffering are experienced on Earth. 

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FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

One of the most important teachings in Buddhism

A Boddhisatva is an enlightened being that has been deemed worthy by God of being allowed the privilege of entering the bliss of Nirvana full time, but choses instead to put off Paradise to help others reach enlightenment. 

The Four Noble Truths represent the path to enlightenment.  These truths were taught by the Buddha Himself, and they explain the nature of human suffering and the path to liberation from that suffering. The Buddha teaches us to follow these noble paths to free ourselves from the clutches of suffering. In Buddhism, to understand is to experience. The path to enlightenment as a journey to understand, and then eventually escape from, the suffering of life. This emphasis on suffering is not said in a negative sense. 

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FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

One of the most important teachings in Buddhism

The first truth teaches that everyone in life is suffering in some way (suffering, incapable of satisfying, painful) is an innate characteristic of existence in the realm of samsara;

Suffering comes in many forms. Three obvious kinds of suffering correspond to the first three  sights the Buddha saw on His first journey outside His palace: old age, sickness and death.But according to the Buddha, the problem of suffering goes much deeper. Life is not ideal: it frequently fails to live up to our expectations.

Human beings are subject to desires and cravings, but even when we are able to satisfy these desires, the satisfaction is only temporary. Pleasure does not last; or if it does, it becomes monotonous. Even when we are not suffering from outward causes like illness or bereavement, we are unfulfilled, unsatisfied. This is the truth of suffering.

2nd Truth: “Origin of Suffering (Samudāya)”

The second truth states that all suffering comes from desire (tanhā).  

The Buddha taught that the root of all suffering is tanhā. This comes in three forms, which He described as the Three Fires, or the Three Roots of Evil, or the Three Poisons.

These are the three ultimate causes of suffering:

  • Greed and desire

  • Delusion or ignorance

  • Hatred and destructive urges

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3rd Truth: “Cessation of Suffering (Nirodha)”

The third truth says that it is possible to stop suffering and achieve enlightenment.

The third noble truth states that the cessation of suffering is possible. This doesn't mean that we will never experience difficult situations again, but it does mean that we can find a way to end our suffering

The Buddha is proof that there is an end to man's suffering when He reached Nirvana. Nirvana is the state of liberation from our desires, cravings, and attachments. It is not something that happens overnight, but rather it is something that can be achieved through following the Eightfold Path of the fourth truth.

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4th Truth: “Path to the Cessation of Suffering (Magga)”

The fourth truth teaches about the Middle Way, which are the steps to achieve enlightenment.

The fourth noble truth is the path that leads to the end of suffering. This path is called the Eightfold Path, and it contains eight steps that we must follow in order to achieve liberation.

In this noble path, the Buddha described eight ways divided into three forms of training:

  • Ethics: Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood

  • Concentration: Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration

  • Wisdom: Right Understanding, Right Intentions

Nirvana means extinguishing. Attaining Nirvana is reaching enlightenment - and means extinguishing the Three Fires of greed, delusion and hatred. Someone who has attained enlightenment is filled with compassion for all living things. Nirvana is better understood as a state of mind that humans can reach. It is a state of profound spiritual joy, without negative emotions and fears.

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