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A mind bending story of a Buddha.

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Oɴᴄᴇ, Bᴜᴅᴅʜᴀ ᴡᴀs ᴍᴇᴅɪᴛᴀᴛɪɴɢ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴇᴇ. Tʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴀ ʟᴏᴛ ᴏғ ᴅɪsᴄɪᴘʟᴇs ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴇᴏᴏʟᴇ ғʟᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ ɴᴇᴀʀʙʏ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴄᴇɪᴠᴇ ᴛᴇᴀᴄʜɪɴɢ, ᴡɪsᴅᴏᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ʙʟᴇssɪɴɢs.  Sᴜᴅᴅᴇɴʟʏ, ᴀ ᴍᴀɴ ᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀᴏᴡᴅ ɪɴғᴜʀɪᴀᴛɪɴɢʟʏ, ᴀʙᴜsɪɴɢ Bᴜᴅᴅʜᴀ ᴡɪᴛʜ sʜᴀʀᴘ ᴡᴏʀᴅs. Hᴇ ᴡᴀs ᴀɴɢʀʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜɪs sᴏɴ, ʜɪs ᴏɴʟʏ ʜᴇɪʀ, ᴅᴇᴄɪᴅᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴀ ᴍᴏɴᴋ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ʜᴇᴀʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴇᴀᴄʜɪɴɢs ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴇᴠᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴs ғʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ Bᴜᴅᴅʜᴀ.  Tʜᴇ ᴍᴀɴ ᴡᴀs ᴀɴɢʀʏ sᴏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ ʜᴀs ɴᴏ ʜᴇɪʀ ᴛᴏ ᴘᴀss ᴏɴ ʜɪs ᴡᴇᴀʟᴛʜ ᴀɴᴅ ʜɪs ᴏɴʟʏ sᴏɴ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴡᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ᴀs ʙʜɪᴋᴋʜᴜ sᴜʀᴠɪᴠɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʟᴍs ʙᴇɢɢᴇᴅ. Tʜᴇ ᴡᴇᴀʟᴛʜ ʜᴇ ᴀᴄᴄᴜᴍᴜʟᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡᴇʀᴡ ғᴜᴛɪʟᴇ ɪғ ʜɪs sᴏɴ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴊᴏɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀɴɢɢʜᴀ. Aᴄᴄᴏʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʜɪᴍ, Bᴜᴅᴅʜᴀ ᴡᴀs ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴀʙʟᴇ. Bᴜᴅᴅʜᴀ ʟɪsᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ sʜᴏᴜᴛɪɴɢ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʜɪs ᴜsᴜᴀʟ ᴄᴀʟᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴏsᴇᴅ ᴅᴇᴍᴇᴀɴᴏᴜʀ. Hᴇ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴛʀɪᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ʜɪs ʟɪᴘs ᴛᴏ ᴀʀɢᴜᴇ ᴏʀ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴇʀ ᴍᴀɴ's ᴀᴄᴄᴜsᴀᴛɪᴏɴs.  Aғᴛᴇʀ ᴀ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ, ᴍᴀɴ sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴀʟᴍ ᴅᴏᴡɴ. Sᴏᴍᴇ ᴏғ ʜɪs ʀᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴠᴇs ᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴀʟᴏɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ʜɪᴍ ᴀᴡᴀʏ. Aғᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴡᴀs ᴏᴠᴇʀ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴅɪsᴄɪᴘʟᴇs ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴀʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴄᴜʀɪᴏᴜs ᴛᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʜᴏᴡ Bᴜᴅᴅʜ...

Quotations: Sutrasརྒྱལ་བའི་བཀའ། The Word of the Buddha

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ངས་ནི་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཐར་པའི་ཐབས་བསྟན་གྱི། ། ཐར་པ་རང་ལ་རགས་ལས་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས། ། I have shown you the methods that lead to liberation, But you should know that liberation depends upon yourself.[1] Buddha Shakyamuni ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་རྒྱུ་ལས་བྱུང་། ། དེ་རྒྱུ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པས་གསུངས། ། རྒྱུ་ལ་འགོག་པ་གང་ཡིན་པ། ། དགེ་སྦྱོང་ཆེན་པོས་འདི་སྐད་གསུངས། ། All dharmas originate from causes. The Tathagata has taught these causes, And also that which puts a stop to these causes— This too has been taught by the Great Shramana. Buddha Shakyamuni: Essence of Dependent Origination dharani དགེ་སློང་དག་དང་མཁས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། ། བསྲེག་བཅད་བརྡར་བའི་གསེར་བཞིན་དུ། ། ལེགས་པར་བརྟག་ལ་ང་ཡི་བཀའ། ། བླང་བར་བྱ་ཡི་གུས་ཕྱིར་མིན། །[2] Monks and learned ones, Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect. Śākyamuni ལྔ་བརྒྱ་ཐ་མར་གྱུར་པ་ན། ། ང་ཉིད་ཡི་གེའི་གཟུགས་སུ་གནས། ། ང་ཡིན་སྙམ་དུ་ཡིད་བྱོས་ལ། ། དེ་ཚེ་དེ་ལ་གུས་པར་གྱིས། ། In the last five hundred year period, I will ap...

Nangkor CS Celebrates Her 25th Birthday

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I am immensely delighted to see Nangkor school attaining her 25 years as a peak of learning in the east.  It is always privileged and proud to be Nangkorean ( student alumni of Nangkor school), having gotten an opportunity to study in such a prestigious school was everyone's wish. I was happy to be a part of Nangkor and to study there with highly qualified teachers and fellow mates whose heart and soul were endowed with milk of human kindness -beautiful souls.  To commemorate the 25 years of her impactful presence of NCS I have written a narrative article of my stay in the school. Here it reads... In the words of a young boy[me] who wanted to study in his awaited dream school to chase his goal, wrote a memoir in retrospect, reads the following:  'How I Remember My Alma Mater Being Once a Nangkorean' “Memories are always special Sometimes we laughed by remembering the day we cried. And we cried by remembering the day we laughed….!! That’s life.” I came to Na...

Bᴜᴅᴅʜᴀ Tᴇᴀᴄʜᴇs Sᴇᴠᴇɴ Kɪɴᴅs ᴏғ Wɪғᴇ/ʜᴜsʙᴀɴᴅs

𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘩𝘩𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴/𝘏𝘶𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴:  1. The first is a wife/ a husband like a murderer. 2. The second is a wife/ a husband like a thief. 3. The third is a wife / a husband like a boss. 4. The fourth is a wife / a husband like a mother / a father. 5. The fifth is a wife / a husband like a sister / a brother. 6. The sixth is a wife / a husband like a friend. 7. The seventh is a wife / a husband like a servant. THERE ARE SEVEN KINDS OF WIVES Firstly, a wife who has a malicious mind is not faithful in marriage, abandons her husband, has nefarious relations with other men just because she is overwhelmed by their wealth or appearance, disdain her husband, has affection, and charms with others. Such a wife, the Tathagata calls the wife like a murderer. Secondly, the wife does not take general care of the family economy; on the contrary, she still wastes the legal property of her husband creating. Such a wi...

𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑾𝑵𝑬𝑫 𝑰𝑵 𝑴𝑶𝑶𝑵𝑺𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑬 𝑯𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑺

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𝑴𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑨𝒔 𝑰 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒓. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆  𝑰 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇  𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔, 𝒖𝒏𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔  𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒌  𝑨𝒔  𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅  𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆   𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝑰 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔  𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆?...