The Buddha practiced loving-kindness towards all beings - gods , men, animals and spirits and this is called universal love . If the Buddha wanted to find happiness for himself alone,he could have done so long before the time he actually attained the eternal happiness of Nibbana . He could have attained that with much less difficulty also . What he thought was that entering into that eternal happiness alone while so many were suffering would be like an unlike mother enjoying a delicacy would while her hungry children were looking on. So,the Buddha , out of compassion for all living beings , plunged himself into the suffering Samsara (round of birth and death ) and took the longer and more hazardous route to reach the farther shore . He had to live many lives and the number of lives that he spent in his self imposed “ training course is incalculable .
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:43:22 +0000
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