Good morning everyone. Today I'm going to continue
Buddha's story. Let's find out today.
Buddha was born into a royal family back to ancient time in India
His father is a king of the kingdom. When his mother gets pregnant there is
one auspicious sign when she have the pregnancy
of the Buddha she dreamed a white elephant and this
white elephant offered her a lotus flower during the dream.
Once Buddha's mother woke up immediately she discovered she got
pregnant, and the father of the Buddha was extremely
happy because he was waiting for a son to inherit his kingdom after his pass away.
During the pregnancy of the Buddha's
mother she never need to eat anything from the royal family
because every day when she wakes up she will discover there's a lot of
delicious food aside of her bed from the holy goddess of the angel
offering her the food because she had the pregnancy for the Buddha.
So days after days she never had any uncomfortable signs during her pregnancy
Just before she was due the king decide to invite one of the
very famous fortune-teller come to the royal family
and to give the prediction for this future prince
Once this fortune-teller came to the palace
immediately he bowed to the queen and all the people were very surprised
how can he bow to the queen instead of bowing to the king.
The fortune-teller said because she is going to
have birth from her body holy Buddha one day if he decide to go to the
cultivation path. But once he did that
he immediately cried so the king and the queen
was afraid what's wrong with this fortune teller
Why once he bowed to the queen he began crying,
and the king asked him why. The fortune-teller said
because this baby is going enlightened as lord of Buddha after he dies
so he has no luck can meet this great teaching
so that's why he's crying So before the Buddha birth everyone is
expecting this would be very holy person fortune-teller told him if king keeps him
in the royal family become the future
king the neighbor country
will not fight and try to attack their country because
he is going to be a superpower king in the future.
If his son decides to become a monk get into liberation path cultivate, he will
enlighten as a lord of Buddha to free all the suffering from the Six Realms of
sentient being. So once the fortune teller told the
Buddha's father the king was quite scared
the king decided he will always keep his son
inside of the royal family will not allow him to meet any monk in his life
so he will always stay with him become a future king of this country.
Once this fortune teller shares his prediction for this baby
the mother of Buddha decide to travel back to her
own country in the neighbor. Just about passing a forest
and on the lunar day of April 8, she had the birth
for this Buddha Once Buddha was born
all the holy angels around him
to give a shower to the baby Buddha and immediately the Buddha
just stand up and walking by himself seven steps
and he pointing his finger to the sky
and said all the universe
top from the heaven to lowest
hell realm all the universe
I will be awakened one there is nothing
a truly joyful life in this term of life
but only cultivation once he says that full color of a golden
lotus bloom each step when he walk by himself
So all the attendants around the queen
notice this is a very auspicious sign of the Buddha's birth
of course king was very happy finally has a son
can inherit his kingdom. So he built a special
luxury palace
in this royal family the kingdom and
keep this baby growing up there So on the age of four
the Buddha already can predict many magical things happen in the country
So when he slowly grew up a lot of attendant people around him
notice since the childhood of a Buddha
he is very special than others. He had very strong
physical ability can move an elephant just like throwing a candy into the sky
without harming this elephant and not only that
each time when he walked into this royal garden
all the birds all the insects just were singing for him
and coming to his body, not afraid of him at all
so that's a very special connection this baby Buddha has with all sentient
beings. When he becomes the age 14,
his father each year
select 500 young ladies to always entertain him in his palace
so he will not go outside of the palace to meet his future holy teacher.
So when he was at aged 17, queen and king
decided to find a beautiful princess from the neighbor country to become
his wife. One day
Buddha decided to go out of this royal palace to see outside. Then King feel
since he already grew up, and he has over 100 beautiful female attendants always
around him to singing dancing for him and the King feel
is no way the prince will go outside seeking for liberation path. So he agreed with
the prince to let him go outside. So he traveled from the east gate to
outside. He discovered this one person
hardly can walk feel very suffering
and he asked his attendant what's wrong with this person why the
way he walks different than me attendant replied to prince
this is called illness
my lord. Because this person gets sick that's why
he is not able to normally function like all of us
Then prince said why I never seen such a
ill people in my palace? The attendant told him because the king
never permitted anyone who
is sick go close to you so that's why you never
see a sick person in your life but
all of us will get sick like him, no exception.
And he feel even more sad and still returned back to the palace
That day he eats less
and also he reduced the amount of entertainment time with all 500
beautiful girls He feels life is full of some sufferings
So the king feels worried, but he's still sending another 500 young
girls to bring entertainment to prince every
single day and try to let him forget about this ill man
A couple years after, prince was still asking king
to let him go outside to see the natural thing of the country
Then king agreed. So this time
prince traveled from south gate to outside
and he saw there's one old man, very very old
he hardly can walk by himself and his skinny wrinkled skin
show a lot of signals to the prince and the prince asked his attendant
who is this old man why he has so much wrinkle and he is so
different than me? In my palace, I never see a person like
him. The attendant replied to the prince
he said prince these call old people
in your palace the king never sent anyone who is old to
serve you So that's why you never see old people
in your palace. Every one of us
will get old like this old man so once prince realized
maybe one day he could be old as well so he feels sad and still returns back to
the palace. The king notice
prince feel sad and not eating much food anymore
reduce a huge amount of time to enjoy his entertainment with all
beautiful girls in the palace. He
decided to add 500 more beautiful dancers the girls
to entertain the prince. After couple months later
prince still traveled outside the palace once he goes outside
his saw there's a bunch of people crying together and there is one person
lying on the floor not moving his body at all
So immediately prince asked his attendant what's this why this person is not
moving his body? The attendant told prince
prince this is we say death
this person passed away so he is no longer alive
so that's why you can see his body cannot move anymore
all of us one day
after we become old we also will die once the prince heard his attendant explained
death is like that
prince even more shocked and he feel even more sad
and still returned back to the palace once the prince saw
the sickness the illness
the old and the death
and you realize the life is full with all sufferings and impermanence
it's not as beautiful as his life in the palace
so he decide to
go back to talk to his father the king say
I want to really go outside of the palace to
seeking my true path of life, I want to discover the truth
In the final time the prince leave the palace from the north gate
he saw there was a monk walk
very gently with a compassionate attitude toward everything and he asked attendant
who is this man why he's so different from
how I look now? The attendant told him
my lord this is monk
he is the person not like the ordinary all of us
enjoy the life with a husband and a wife have a children
they decide
to devote all their life, entire life on liberation path to cultivate
once the prince heard the attendant explain this is
a monk immediately he confirmed his decision
what he wants to do for his life. He returned back to the palace
the same night he woke up during the midnight
and he saw entire royal palace
there's a thousand of the dancers beautiful ladies
they get all drunk and sleeping on the floor
and the prince feel this is not the way I saw them every day.
Every day they look so beautiful but they look like those dead body
with another dirty part in the body which I cannot see and the prince turned
his eyes to look at his wife and he also noticed
she is no exception from this kind of body like those dancers
So he feel life is not the way
he thought. He enjoyed in the royal palace
so he decided to leave palace to go outside.
So he traveled by himself he took a horse
and the attendant decided to follow him and he traveled to outside of the royal
palace. So I will continue what happened to
Buddha after he leave the palace
and seeking for his liberation path and I hope next time I will have you to
join me for continue the Buddha's
liberation path. See you next time