"The day of the full moon of the 8th lunar month 81 years before the beginning of the Buddhist Era" "Kapilavatthu" "King Suddhodana" "Queen Maya" "Oh!" "Was it all a dream, then?" "Oh, but this fragrance... it's exactly the same as in the dream!" "What is your word, Purohit?" "The Queen's dream..." "What does it mean?" "By your mercy, my king," "I have applied and reapplied all my knowledge and all my skill." "Queen Maya will give birth to a prince possessed of great wisdom, courage and ability." "Truly?" "Long live the King!" "What is it?" "My Lord, we are having a son." "I..." "I'm deliriously happy." "I thank you truly, my Queen." "I am very happy." "You are content now, are you not, Sister?" "What joy is so great as that of a son to carry on the family name?" "Truly, what's the use if a king like me should produce no heir to succeed the throne." "A wide kingdom such as I rule, will certainly expand into new territories." "Pajapati, I appoint you chief nursemaid to the Queen." "Have no concerns, Your Majesty." "I will care for her more than for my own life." "I thank you with all my heart, Pajapati." "Why aren't you resting?" "It has been 10 months now has it not?" "Yes." "I have something to ask of my lord." "What is it?" "Have you forgotten?" "In the custom of the Koliya clan, when a woman is with child, she must return to her birthplace and give birth to the child there." "I have not forgotten." "But... you are now far gone in pregnancy." "I'm afraid..." "My lord, do not forbid me!" "If that is your desire, I will not hold you." "I thank you from my heart." "The day of the full moon of the 6th lunar month" "Here general." "I wish to rest here for a while." "Your Highness, why are we stopping?" "I would rest a while." "Look!" "The serenity of this place!" "It is full of Sala trees." "It's so beautiful!" "What's happening?" "The fragrance!" "Most excellent am I in the world." "Supreme am I in the world." "Chief am I in the world." "This is my final birth." "There will be no future births for me." "Oh!" "The great recluse has come!" "The great recluse!" "It is he!" "By your mercy, the recluse Asita requests an audience with Your Majesty." "May Your Majesty prosper." "May your reign endure." "May you rule in righteousness." "Be at your ease, Asita." "Why have you come?" "I desire to see the Prince, my King." "And here he is!" "Here you are, Asita." "These are the features of a great being for the world!" "But Asita, why do you sob?" "The majestic and beautiful body of the Prince is marked with the 32 major and" "80 minor signs." "The Prince will become a fully enlightened Buddha." "I weep, for I am advanced in years and unlikely to live long enough to hear his profound teachings." "I am King, my son will also be King." "How could he possibly become a monk?" "It's impossible." "His destiny is unalterable, My King." "Farewell!" "May Your Majesty prosper." "Your Majesty, I have selected the eight most expert Brahmins." "These are the proposed names for the Prince." "Consider them carefully." "Good!" "I agree to the name of Siddhartha!" "Now!" "Divine the Prince's destiny!" "We have examined the signs." "He is rich in indications." "It is truly wonderous!" "What say you, Brahmins?" "We see two alternative possibilities for the Prince." "They are..." "Should the Prince remain a man of the world he will become great monarch." "But, should he go forth into the religious life he shall achieve enlightenment and become the Buddha." "But, why is Kondanna raising a single finger?" "Well, my King." "The meaning of my single finger is that there is but a single future for the Prince." "He will not remain a man of the world." "He will go forth as a monk." "He will achieve enlightenment..." "and become the Buddha." "Are you quite certain?" "It is certain that one who bears these 32 marks will not remain a man of the world." "He must go forth as a monk, achieve enlightenment and become a Buddha." "I am pleased that all eight of you have foreseen that the Prince will be a great man." "This child, the Prince, is to be called," "Siddhartha!" "Long live Prince Siddhartha!" "Look, my royal sister!" "The people are holding a great celebration for the Prince." "I do not know whether your mother will live to raise you." "Why do you say such a thing my sister?" "It is a bad omen." "Leave it, Sister." "But if anything should happen to me you must care for the Prince in my place." "Day 7th after the prince's birth" "It is passing odd, Purohit." "The Queen died suddenly." "I examined her thoroughly and found nothing unusual." "It is truly strange!" "Oh Maya!" "What will become of our son?" "I fear the oracle!" "What the child will become depends on how he is raised." "Siddhartha will become a mighty king!" "You win!" "Hooray!" "However we think about it, we can't get the answer." "We do understand it now." "Siddhartha is so smart!" "School of Visvamitta" "May you flourish, Great King." "Be at ease, Tutor." "And the matter I have entrusted to you?" "Do not worry, Your Majesty." "Prince Siddhartha will certainly become a mighty king." "Prince Devadatta" "Siddhartha!" "Wait up!" "Come on!" "Quickly, Ananda!" "Oh!" "What's that?" "This swan's been shot." "I'll take it home and take care of it." "Stop!" "The swan is mine!" "I shot it." "No!" "This swan belongs to me!" "Yeah?" "We'll see about that!" "Siddhartha, remember well:" "From this moment we are enemies." "Hm!" "Prince Devadatta has sent an envoy to claim the swan." "But isn't Prince Siddhartha the one who saved it?" "Somebody who hurts others has no right!" "It belongs to the one who saved it!" "Several years later" "The 3 Palaces" "These three palaces I built just for you." "You who will be King." "Oh, my!" "How beautiful they are!" "Thank you, Father." "Let's explore!" "Wait for me, Nanda!" "Catch me if you can, Ananda!" "With such a life, why would Siddhartha go forth to become a monk?" "Asita is wrong." "Absurdly wrong!" "Come everyone!" "The time has come to seek a consort for the Prince." "I'll throw a grand wedding." "Thank you, Father." "But there is one condition, my King:" "I will only marry the girl that I choose myself." "None of them will look me in the eye." "Princess Yasodhara Bimba" "It's just that..." "We're out of garlands." "Ahh..." "Princess, please accept this ring instead." "Devadaha" "King Suppabuddha" "What does the letter say, My Lord?" "King Suddhodana asks for our daughter Yasodhara Bimba's hand in marriage to Siddhartha." "We will not give her to him!" "Why not, my brother?" "It is our established custom that the consorts of our princesses must be men of knowledge and ability." "Siddhartha has neither." "Tomorrow..." "Can Prince Siddhartha defeat the other princes in competition?" "May it please Your Majesty, it is time for the match to begin." "Allow me to present the five competitors:" "First:" "Prince Ananda," "Prince Devadatta," "Prince Nanda," "Prince Dandapani," "And finally:" "Prince Siddhartha." "Well." "Now we'll see how good you really are, Siddhartha." "Prince Ananda shoots first, from a distance of 2,000 Was." "(Wa is an old distance unit)" "Oh!" "Wow!" "A good shot!" "Prince Devadatta!" "Wow!" "What a shot!" "Up next:" "Prince Nanda!" "Excellent!" "Prince Dandapani!" "Shooting from a distance of... 8,000 Was!" "Look at that!" "Strong, straight and far!" "The final archer:" "Prince Siddhartha!" "Prince Siddhartha will shoot at a distance... a distance of: 10,000 Was!" "It's gone that far..." "Will it go all the way?" "What's happening?" "Look there!" "Nothing's happening!" "I think he missed." "It's hard to believe Siddhartha would have missed!" "You've lost Siddhartha!" "I wonder..." "Lets take a look." "Where's the arrow?" "It went in here... where did it go?" "It came so far so fast." "We didn't see it!" "Prince Siddhartha of Kapilavatthu scores at 10,000 Was!" "Prince Siddhartha has been found suitable to receive Princess Bimba's hand in marriage." "13 years later" "Princess..." "I wish to visit the park." "Tell Channa to prepare my chariot," "I'm going to the royal park." "Yes, Your Highness." "What?" "He's going to the park?" "All of you!" "Quickly!" "Beautify the city and the route he will take." "He must encounter nothing unpleasant or unsightly!" "Do you understood?" "It is nearly time for the Bodhisatta to go forth as a monk." "Let us descend and place omens before him." "Our city is lovely indeed!" "Stop the carriage, Channa!" "What has happened to that man, Channa?" "He is an old man, my Prince." "After much time, all of us decline into old age." "My body - must it become like that as well?" "Yes, my Prince." "Stop, Channa." "Stop!" "Ahh, help me, help!" "It is too painful!" "Please... this is torture" "I can't bear it!" "Help me." "This man is suffering because he is ill, my Prince." "And all of us must struggle with the pain of illness?" "You should not have gone so quickly." "How are we going to live?" "But this is too sad." "Let's go home, Channa." "Stop the chariot." "Who is that?" "How peaceful he seems!" "He is a monk, my Prince." "Going forth as a monk is a means of abandoning defilements in order to gain release from all suffering." "In order to gain release..." "Like that?" "King Suddhodana has dispatched me to inform Your Highness that Princess Bimba has given birth to a son." "Rahula, a fetter, has been born." "My nephew is too lovely!" "My grandbaby!" "Earthly pleasures are fleeting." "There are but obstacles and chaos." "I must abandon the princely life and go forth to find the way beyond suffering." "Channa." "Prepare the best horse." "Tonight, I will leave the Kingdom." "I would first look upon the face of my son." "You make everything ready." "Yes, my Prince." "If Bimba awakes, I might never go forth." "I will become the Buddha first, and then return." "Let's go now, Channa." "The gate's not locked!" "Mount up, Channa!" "What is it!" "?" "Lord, do not go forth into the religious life." "On the seventh day hence you will become a universal emperor." "You will rule the four great continents and the 2,000 surrounding isles." "Therefore you must return to your kingdom!" "I knew already that these would be offered me." "I desire them not." "I shall be a Buddha helping others to end all suffering." "Mara, do not hinder me." "You have been warned!" "We must get on, my Prince." "Go!" "Kandhaka" "Channa, take my clothes and Kandhaka back to Kapilavatthu." "My Prince!" "Permit me to go forth with you as your servant." "No, Channa." "I want you to return and inform my father that" "I have gone forth as a monk." "If that is your wish." "I will do as you command, my Prince." "This hair is not suitable for a renunciate." "I will cut it off." "If I am to become enlightened, let this hair float on the air and not fall back to earth." "If you are determined to go forth, then accept these necessities." "From this moment forth," "I take on the status of a monk." "Kandhaka!" "Alas..." "Kandhaka!" "Alas..." "My dear son." "For 29 years," "I endeavored always to hold you, that you would become a universal emperor." "He left us without the least farewell." "Was it necessary to abandon his father, his aunt and all of us who love him so dearly?" "Royal mother, do not grieve overmuch." "The Prince has done a good thing." "May we all rejoice in the virtue of his deed." "I pray you to have faith in him." "He will soon achieve enlightenment." "Rajagaha, Magadha Kingdom" "Councilor!" "What affairs are afoot?" "All is well in the realm." "Nothing unusual to report, My Lord." "It is widely spoken, Sire, of a monk who is graceful in gesture and splendorous of appearance has entered our realm, My Lord." "Well then:" "Who is this monk?" "What Kingdom is he from?" "He is a prince of the Sakiyas, My Lord." "A prince of the Sakiyas." "Go then and find him." "We would go to him and show reverence." "I have heard your story, and I am deeply impressed." "I would ask you to abandon the status of a monk." "I would cede to you half of my dominion." "I thank you from my heart." "But I have gone forth for the sake of fully awakened knowledge." "I seek none other." "If it is thus, I ask that you return to me when you have attained enlightenment and teach me." "So I shall." "I would ask leaving now to seek a liberation." "May My Lord prosper." "Hermitage of Alara" "I have attained the same level as the master." "His doctrine, however, does not lead to the end of suffering." "I will leave his school, therefore, to seek the Dhamma of the extinction of suffering." "I don't know what has become of the other Brahmins who predicted the infant Prince's future." "Prince Siddhartha has now gone forth." "He will one day achieve enlightenment and become the Buddha." "Should I invite those seven Brahmins to follow and serve him, they would not be lacking in faith." "Kondanna, our fathers have all died." "With your permission, we four Brahmins, would go with you." "In that case, let us call our group "Pancavaggiya"." "Hermitage of Uddaka" "May I invite Your Highness to come with me?" "You have equaled my achievement:" "The eighth level of meditation." "Please join me in governing our community." "This way of practice is not the way to the end of suffering." "I will leave and continue my search for the way to end the suffering." "The village of Uruvela" "There he is!" "The Bodhisatta." "Let us go to him." "He is as majestic and beautiful as they say!" "These men are Vappa, Bhaddiya, Mahanama, and Assaji." "May you strive with diligence." "We will minister to your needs, Our Lord." "I thank you, sirs." "I will persevere in these austerities, to the utmost, to attainment." "I have mortified my body in many ways." "Until my mind burns with agitation and my body trembles." "My head aches terribly." "Yet, this is not the path to the extinction of suffering." "Perhaps fasting will take me beyond suffering." "For nearly six years I have born grievous pains." "Nothing of all I have done leads to the end of suffering." "Of the three strings of the vina..." "over-taut and the string breaks;" "over-loose and it doesn't sound good." "That beautiful sound must come from a string that is neither too taut nor too loose." "This middle path!" "This is the best way." "This is the path to take." "Great man," "Why have you abandoned the true path of liberation?" "We have wasted our time and energy serving you all these years." "You have turned from perseverance to self-indulgence." "We can no longer serve you." "Farewell!" "Milady, why are you preparing such a large offering?" "It is an offering for a deity who has granted my every desire." "Back then, Sujata, in a prayer," "Implored the god to bestow on her a son." "Beneath the shade of the large Banyan," "Promising the immortal, if he were to grant," "So great the offering would be in return delivered." "Oh!" "A wish of Sujata, at last, has come to fruition." "Then much to her delight," "She would make rice as the offering." "And a big herd of rich-flavored - milked cows was gathered." "And a crop of sweet-smelling rice was harvested." "And a number of servants were ordered," "To make the fresh and pure Madhupayasa." "Sending forth so fine a smell," "It would be at predawn given under the tree." "Oh!" "And thus did she lead them (servants) thereto," "Bearing a brimful priceless golden dish of a pleasing recipe." "Quickly, we will be late." "Oh!" "Milady!" "At dawn, I saw a holy monk, splendorous of form..." "as if a deity had taken human form, seated beneath the Banyan tree." "Yes!" "He must certainly be a deity." "Let us hurry to him." "Deity of the tree," "I would like to offer to you this rice-milk." "Be pleased to accept this offering." "I am no deity but a monk in quest of liberation." "But my desire has been fulfilled." "Therefore I offer you this milk-rice along with this golden bowl." "My desires have been fulfilled." "May your heart's intention be fulfilled as well!" "If I am to achieve enlightenment and Buddhahood today, may this bowl float against the current." "Another Buddha has arisen, hasn't it?" "Oh!" "That is the great man." "Where will he go to continue his endeavors?" "I, Sotthiya brahmin, have full faith in you." "Do me honor of accepting these eight sheaves of Kusa-grass as your throne." "This Bodhi tree is a good place." "Here I shall resume the struggle." "Even though my blood should run dry and nothing is left but flesh and bones," "I will not stir from this seat until I achieve the goal." "I have been trying to stop Siddhartha ever since he went forth!" "But now, Siddhartha is near to attainment." "Siddhartha, vacate my throne!" "Remain, and you will be burnt to ashes!" "Oh!" "You're too brave." "Siddhartha!" "This throne has arisen by the power of goodness accumulated over countless lifetimes of virtuous conduct." "Siddhartha!" "Such talk is nonsense." "Who could possibly bear witness to such goodness in the past?" "Sitting alone." "No army." "Not so much as a single weapon!" "Look you well, Mara." "Virtue is my army." "Wisdom is my weapon." "And the Earth is my witness." "I, servant of the Bodhisatta, have seen and known." "I bear witness to his perfection of the virtues." "Whenever he has poured libations for the dead," "I incline my head to receive the flow of virtue." "My hair is wet with the water of his goodness." "I will let my hair down so that you can see." "Oh!" "Exalted one, I worship and praise you." "Throughout the world of gods and humans you will convey those beings who are capable beyond the cycle of suffering to the attainment of Nirvana." "The Bodhisatta notes his in and out breaths until his mind becomes peaceful and open in its natural state." "He sees the wheel of death and birth of all beings in accordance with their deeds." "He knows the defilements:" "Greed, hatred, delusion." "He knows:" "What suffering is." "What the cause of suffering is." "What the extinction of suffering is." "He knows the path of practice leading to the extinction of suffering:" "Morality, concentration, wisdom." "He investigates name and form in accord with these Four Noble Truths." "His mind arrives at Nirvana, extinguishing name and form, and abandoning the defilements." "His mind thus freed, the Lord has attained full and perfect enlightenment." "Father, what's wrong?" "Siddhartha has attained Enlightenment." "What would we do?" "Don't you worry, Father." "This is a job for us!" "Excellent!" "My three loving daughters." "We'll see!" "Lord Gautama..." "Please arise, My Lord." "Do not remain here." "But come along with us." "Who are you?" "Where would you take me?" "My name is Raga." "I bring bewilderment to the beings of the world." "No one escapes my shackles of lust, Milord." "Not even you." "I'm called Arati." "I bring anger to the beings of the world." "No one escapes my shackles of hatred, Milord." "Including you." "I am Tanha." "I bring sensual desire to the beings of the world." "No one escapes..." "my shackles of desire." "Milord:" "You are no different." "Raga, Arati, Tanha, what you have said is true." "All beings fall to lust, hatred and desire." "Their minds are thus darkened." "But now, I have broken all your shackles." "Therefore, do not come near, but turn back." "I have achieved enlightenment." "I would show the way to others." "My teachers Alara and Uddaka have died." "I should go now and favor the Pancavaggiya." "That man coming this way looks like a great man." "Here!" "We shall not welcome him." "Come, Great Monk, My Lord." "For what purpose have you come to us?" "Behold, Pancavaggiya." "I have attained enlightenment, the perfect knowledge of awakening." "How is that possible, when you have turned from diligent striving to self-indulgence?" "Over the last six years, did the Tathagata ever claim enlightenment?" "Never, My Lord." "Well, then." "Show this Dhamma of enlightenment to us as well." "The day of the full moon of the 8th lunar month" "I shall now give to you the Dhammacakka Sutta." "This is my first teaching." "There are two extremes that the monk must avoid." "They are indulgence in worldly pleasures and self-mortification, which is troublesome and useless." "The middle way is the path to take." "Teach us clearly, My Lord." "The Tathagata..." "Has penetrated the Four Noble Truths." "These are the stages of extinguishing suffering." "Birth, old age, pain and death give birth to suffering." "The perceptions of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, heart and mind, instantly combine to form love, greed, anger and bewilderment." "These alone lead to suffering." "Hmm." "If you don't want to suffer, you must abandon the causes of the arising of suffering." "When those causes have been abandoned, they must be extinguished." "When you know-this is suffering;" "this is the cause of suffering;" "this is the extinction of suffering, you need also to know the practice that will bring about the extinction." "That is:" "The Path." "The Path consists of right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right recollection and right concentration." "These eight parts of the Path can be summarized as morality, mental cultivation and wisdom." "Yes..." "I understand!" "These Four Noble Truths are most excellent truths!" "Kondanna, you know, you understand." "My Lord, I request ordination." "Come, monk." "The sacred law have I perfectly proclaimed." "Do you then tread the virtuous path for the destruction of suffering." "The body, feelings, memory, attitudes and consciousness are impermanent, lacking self, suffering." "They are inconstant." "Ought we to cling to them?" "Examine this with your own wisdom." "These are not mine." "These are not me." "We understand the three universal characteristics, My Lord:" "Impermanence, suffering, non-self." "Go forth upon a journey, out of compassion for the world, for the welfare of mankind." "Proclaim the religion for the happiness and welfare of all deities and human beings." "For those who hear the Dhamma that we teach, defilements will abate." "But those who do not hear will decline." "Where are you going, My Lord?" "I am going to see the three Jatila brothers." "Welcome, monk." "I am Uruvela Kassapa, chief of the Jatilas." "Here are Nadi Kassapa and Gaya Kassapa." "Why do you wish to see us?" "Kassapa, if you do not object," "I should ask to spend the night in the place of fire worship." "I do not object, but a ferocious serpent lives in the cave of fire worship." "That is of no concern..." "if you grant your permission." "In that case, you may do as you wish." "You dare to enter my lair!" "We'll see about that!" "Oh!" "What's happening?" "!" "I think, the serpent is mauling the great monk." "My Lord, I request ordination into your order, the Sangha." "Kassapa, you are chief of the Jatilas." "You must inform the others first." "Oh, but we all share the same faith, Our Lord." "We would all request ordination from you, Great Monk." "Your Majesty Bimbisara, the Fully Enlightened Buddha has entered the Kingdom of Magadha." "The Lord is at the Supatittha Shrine with the Jatila brothers... and 1,000 newly-ordained monks." "Is this true, courtier?" "He has kept his word, then." "I am truly glad!" "Tomorrow, I shall go to him." "The Tathagata will teach Dhamma to you and to all." "My hope has been fulfilled." "Allow me to take refuge as a lay follower." "My Lord Buddha, allow me to offer Veluvana Park to the Sangha, the order of monks, with the Buddha as master." "My friends and I have agreed to leave Sanjaya's community." "His is not the path of release..." "I have the same idea." "In that case, let our comrades wait here." "The two of us will go separately in search of another community." "Whoever finds one will come back and tell the other." "I am deeply impressed by your deportment." "I would know the name of your master." "The great monk of the Sakiyas is my master." "What doctrine does your master profess?" "Whatsoever originates from a cause, the Tathagata shows the cause and the destruction of that cause." "Thus does the great monk teach." "I am deeply moved by this teaching." "Return to your master and" "I will follow afterwards." "I have a pact with Kolita, my dear friend, that he who first finds liberation will tell the other." "Your Servant has brought Upatissa, Kolita and their comrades for an audience with you, Our Teacher." "Oh, Blessed One, we request ordination into your community." "I give you both new names." "Upatissa, you are Sariputta." "Kolita, you are Moggallana." "The day of the full moon of the 3rd lunar month" "Khanti is endurance, a high austerity." "All the Buddhas teach that Nirvana is supreme." "He who harms others is not to be considered a monk." "One who molests other beings is not called a monk." "Do no wrong, do good and purify the mind, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas." "Among the community of monks," "I appoint Sariputta to be a chief disciple on my right, and Moggallana to be a chief disciple on my left." "They are both Arahants and have thoroughly penetrated the virtues of the disciple." "Many times I have sent emissaries to my son." "But every one ordained and not one has returned." "I've been told, My Lord, that when your messengers hear the Dhamma from the Buddha, they're deeply moved by the Dhamma." "They request ordination and never return." "Since that is the case, I have to depend on you." "Go and convey my invitation to the Buddha once more." "I hope this time we will meet with success." "Yes, Your Majesty." "The Buddha is the most holy of men." "I will ask for ordination." "But how shall I convey the invitation to the Buddha, to return home and visit his royal father?" "My retainers and I request ordination, My Lord." "Great Sage, the season is pleasant." "It would be a good time to travel to Kapilavatthu and visit your royal father and kinsfolk." "You go before, Kaludayi." "Inform my father that we shall return to Kapilavatthu along with 20,000 disciples." "I have good news, My Lord!" "The Perfectly Enlightened Buddha will arrive today." "Is it true?" "I've waited so long for this day!" "Oh Siddhartha, beloved son, you have come to your father at last!" "Oh!" "I'm so happy!" "The Buddha is coming!" "The Buddha has come?" "Hooray!" "Hooray!" "Hooray!" "The Buddha has returned!" "He is coming!" "Hooray!" "May it please Your Majesty..." "The Buddha approaches the city." "Yes?" "Wonderful!" "Quickly!" "Gather a party to receive him." "Let us go to receive the Buddha!" "The royal family and myself, at Nigrodha Temple." "Kapilavatthu" "Welcome, Lord Buddha and welcome to your disciples." "He has become a monk for a long time." "So what?" "Look!" "How marvelous!" "I've never seen such a thing!" "It's raining inside the temple!" "But I'm not wet!" "It's the magic rain." "Those who don't want to get wet aren't wet." "It is the power of the Lord's merit!" "It's been a long drought..." "and now it's raining!" "It's raining!" "Blessed One..." "Must you bring disgrace upon us by begging food from door to door?" "Alas!" "Great King," "Going on alms round shows non-attachment to food." "It is the duty of the Sangha, it is my lineage." "The people gain the power of good karma by offering food to the monks." "All right then." "So be it!" "Please come to the palace." "Princess Bimba is unhappy." "She would not come out to meet you." "Will you not go to her, Lord?" "Has the Buddha come to me?" "Dear..." "Ah..." "Buddha" "Lord, you were heartless and cruel to me and to our son." "Why did you abandon us?" "How could you!" "I went in quest of the path to the extinction of suffering for the happiness and welfare of all beings." "Princess... be not over-sorrowful." "Though in previous lives we were beasts together, you have always been faithful to me." "Once we were born as half-human-half bird creatures." "You were captured by a king who fell madly in love with you." "You wept in grief, and would eat nothing." "You gave up you life over our separation." "Parting is suffering." "But that is the way of nature." "On one day or another, there is always parting." "Rahula, the man speaking there is your father." "He went forth to became a monk on the day you were born." "Rahula, my child, come here." "Rahula, listen, go find your father... and ask for your inheritance." "Yes, Mother." "I will go to him at once." "Rahula." "Lord Monk, it is pleasant and peaceful here in your shadow." "I am your son." "Be so kind as to grant me wealth." "Rahula, I shall give you noble wealth." "You shall receive ordination as a novice." "Yes, My Lord." "You now have my treasure." "Rahula, the novice..." "A number of Sakiyan princes and pages have taken ordination." "They are:" "Upali, Bhagu, Devadatta, Ananda," "Kimbila, Anuruddha, and Bhaddiya." "Alas!" "Will I have no one to succeed me on the throne?" "Nandha has gone forth, and so has Rahula." "Who is left?" "Lord, from this day forward, if the parents do not consent to the ordination of a child..." "I beg you not to permit the ordination." "My disciples and I... would take our leave in order further to spread the religion." "It is the time for me to spend the rains retreat in Tavatimsa Heaven teaching Dhamma to my mother." "Moggallana will teach Dhamma to the community." "Anathapindika, ensure that there is food for the monks until I return." "It is by the power of great good karma that I gave birth to such an excellent son as this." "The virtue of a mother is beyond measure." "What Dhamma could be as great as the virtue of a mother?" "Hearing the Abhidhamma that I am going to teach is sufficient to attain Stream-Entry." "Moggallana, when will The Lord Buddha descend to earth?" "Would you ascend to the heavens and inquire of the Lord Buddha?" "Blessed Lord, the community is longing for your return." "Return and tell the people that" "I shall return from the heavens on Pavarana Day." "I return, My Lord, and wait for you below, along with all the people." "The day of my return" "I will be visible from the heavens, from the human world and from hell." "They will all see me together." "Yes!" "It's him, the Lord Buddha!" "The Lord Buddha has returned!" "Hooray!" "Oh, what joy!" "Hooray!" "Look!" "There's hell!" "Run!" "Hide!" "Ahimsaka is coming!" "Ahimsaka" "I go for the benefit of Angulimala, to the bandit forest." "If I do not go, he will kill his own mother, a crime for which he would fall into the deepest hell." "The Buddha has left the city, then." "I've heard that the bandit Ahimsaka stalks and murders men." "I fear the Buddha is in danger." "Good!" "Good if he's killed!" "My enemy will be gotten rid of without wasting my time." "Brahmin, sir." "I have news of our son." "What is it?" "Don't you know?" "King Pasenadi has ordered his troops to kill Ahimsaka our son!" "What?" "It can't be!" "I will go to him and warn him so that he might escape." "Nine hundred ninety nine!" "Oh!" "One more finger, and I will have completed the task set by my teacher." "Why can't I catch up with him?" "Stop, monk!" "Stop!" "I have stopped." "It is you who have not stopped." "Monk, you're still walking but say you've stopped." "I'm standing still and you say I haven't stopped..." "What do you mean?" "I have stopped killing and harming beings of all kinds, thus I say that I have stopped." "As for you, you have not stopped harming beings, therefore I say that you have not stopped." "Angulimala, you still have good karma from previous lifetimes." "I come to help you to cease wrongdoing." "Because you have no spiritual friends you have fallen into delusion." "You must hurry to perform good deeds." "This lifetime will be your last." "How could I have fallen into such crime and delusion?" "I trusted my teacher's words." "Alas!" "I have committed great crimes!" "My Lord!" "Please accept my request for ordination." "Come then, monk, well preached is the doctrine." "Lead correctly the celibate life for the cessation of suffering." "Ahimsaka will not kill the Buddha." "He has ordained, too!" "Then, you're dead!" "Forgive me!" "Please!" "Have mercy!" "There are other ways of eliminating the Buddha." "Now!" "Go!" "Elephant in rut!" "Run!" "Step aside, Ananda." "I have perfected the virtues." "By their power, none can take my life..." "Neither beasts, nor men, nor gods, nor Mara." "Nalagiri," "This lifetime you were born a beast, because of bad karma accumulated in the past." "Do not commit the very grievous karma of harming a Buddha, for such I am." "Doing so would cause you suffering through all of time." "Though the infidel released the raving mad elephant to stampede him..." "Even though I myself rolled a boulder down from the top of Gijjhakuta Mountain to crush him, nothing!" "Stray chunks of stone bruised his toes!" "This is maddening!" "Now then!" "This way may bear fruit!" "Cause a schism in the Sangha!" "I would like to propose some new rules." "Please consider them." "The monks must reside in the forest;" "They may eat only vegetarian food;" "They may not use robes offered by the public." "How dare you propose such rules?" "!" "These are rules of governance for the Sangha." "It would be well to adopt them." "In my view, the existing rules are unfitting." "Silence." "Everyone." "Devadatta, partaking of fish and meat is allowed, when three conditions of purity are met:" "The monk has not seen, has not heard and does not suspect that the animal was killed for him." "As for remaining always in the forest, going on alms-round, and wearing robes made from rags" "I make no rule." "I would have each do as he sees fit." "As for remaining always beneath a tree," "I allow this for no more than 8 months, outside of the rainy season only." "That hurts!" "I will yet find a way to eliminate the Buddha!" "There is something you should know, My Lord." "Devadatta has told us his intention to build temples and practice rites separately from you, my Lord." "It is easy for the good to do good, but hard for the wicked, easy for the wicked to do wrong, hard for the good." "That's Ahimsaka!" "Don't give alms to him!" "Right!" "Right!" "Run him out of town!" "Go!" "Go away!" "Get out of here!" "Now!" "Go!" "Angulimala." "Bear the pain." "Accept the results of your karma, deeds that would cause you to roast in hell." "It is only for this one lifetime." "I shall hold to endurance and love... accepting the results in this lifetime of all my past karma, as the Buddha taught." "I've been down for nine months now and I'm not getting any better." "Take me to the Buddha." "I have done wrong!" "I would beg forgiveness from the Blessed Lord, one last time." "We've passed Rajagaha City and are coming to Savatthi." "My Lord, Devadatta is nearing the Celestial Pokkharani Pond outside Jetavana Monastery." "Even if he comes into Jetavana, he will not see me." "He has committed too much bad karma." "We have come to the Pond of Pokkharani." "Shall we rest here and refresh ourselves?" "What!" "What's happening?" "Help!" "Help!" "Help me!" "I'm being sucked into ground!" "Where will Devadatta be reborn, My Lord?" "Devadatta was a sage, blessed with wealth and status." "But what he amassed were the results of negligence." "One who harms those who are harmless, molesting others, commits wrongs." "He falls into hell where no one can help him." "My mother holds false notions and lacks faith in Buddhism." "In my last seven days, I shall return home to teach her." "My Lord, I would bid my farewell to go to Nirvana." "Where will you enter Nirvana?" "At Nalaka village, My Lord." "Come into the house and rest." "He went forth and ordained since he was young." "Now he wants to come back to the house..." "I guess he'll disrobe as an old man!" "But now my son!" "You've just come and you've fallen sick!" "He seems very ill." "I'll keep watch over him tonight." "Who has come to honor you..." "Upatissa?" "The Four Great Kings of the heavens." "Are you mightier than the Four Great Kings?" "Yes." "They are like temple boys." "They have watched over the Lord since the moment of his conception." "And who is that?" "Lord Indra." "And are you greater even than Lord Indra?" "Lord Indra is like a novice monk, he bore the master's necessities when he descended from Tavatimsa Heaven." "Who is that?" "He shines the brightest of all." "That is Lord Brahma, the god that you worship, mother." "Oh!" "But are you then even greater than Lord Brahma?" "When the Buddha was born," "Lord Brahma held a golden net to receive him." "How mighty my son is!" "But the Buddha is his master." "How much greater must the Buddha be!" "If your mind inclines toward Buddhism, Mother," "I will teach you Dhamma." "I shall recite a discourse in praise of the Buddha for you." "This doctrine should be sufficient." "Cell of Moggallana" "They're coming again!" "The time draws near." "I will not flee... or use my magical powers." "This one!" "Because he uses magical powers to travel to heaven and hell." "He teaches the masses to do good..." "They all convert to Buddhism and leave us without devotees!" "Die!" "Oh!" "It's too much pain!" "But in this lifetime I must suffer all that remains of my past karma." "By the power of resolve" "I will appear before the Lord Buddha and make my last farewell." "My Lord." "I may bid my farewell to Nirvana." "From where do you pass to Nirvana?" "Kalasila, Lord." "Blessed Lord, for what cause has" "Moggallana suffered such a fate?" "Moggallana beat his mother and father and suffered in hell for hundreds of thousands of years." "In this lifetime he was beaten to death by bandits." "Is it not appropriate that he should have thus suffered from the fruits of his own karma?" "The forty-fifth year." "The Buddha is 80 years of age." "Vesali" "Shrine of Pavala" "Listen, Ananda, anyone who regularly cultivates the four supra-normal powers..." "Such a one can live on for many eons, should he so desire." "Even I too am like this." "Three times I spoke, and yet Ananda failed to understand my meaning." "Mara has confused Ananda's mind so that he would not ask me to extend my life." "Ananda, get rest." "You are exhausted." "Our Lord, may you now pass into Final Nirvana?" "Your disciples including of monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen are all full with knowledge of the Dhamma that you have taught." "Listen Mara, wicked one." "My Final Nirvana will occur within three months." "My time has come." "My dear lord!" "It's so strange!" "What an earthquake!" "It was terrifying!" "And the drums of heaven pounding and resounding!" "What caused it?" "The Tathagata's body has reached the end of its time." "This is the cause." "My Lord!" "I beg you to remain with us for the remainder of the eon." "Please, my Lord." "Think well, Ananda." "This is not the time to implore." "I spoke for three times and you would not understand." "I have acceded to Mara's request." "In three months" "I will achieve Final Nirvana." "Call a meeting of the monks." "I am a fool." "This is my fault." "All beings die in the end." "A clay bowl of any kind in the end shatters." "All living beings are just the same." "Without a clear and penetrating knowledge of morality, mental cultivation, wisdom and noble liberation... the cycle of death and birth has no end." "Monks!" "Each of you:" "Be a refuge to yourselves." "Rely on yourselves." "Do not depend on external help." "Learn well." "Cultivate yourselves." "Practice well." "My Lord, I am Cunda;" "I would like to invite the Lord... to my home for a meal." "Please accept these delicacies that I have prepared as an offering to the Lord." "Cunda, let this boar's dish be offered only to me." "Offer other food to the monks." "Cunda, I have eaten." "Take what remains and bury it in a pit." "For I see no one in this world who could fully digest it except the Tathagata alone." "Yes, My Lord." "Ananda, tell the monks to ready themselves." "We are going to Kusinara." "But before we go, you must allay the remorse that Cunda may later feel." "Cunda, do not be upset about the Buddha's condition, after eating the boar's dish then fell gravely ill." "Your offering was his final meal." "It has great merit, equal to that of offering his last meal before enlightenment." "Kusinara" "Ananda, I would request an audience with the Fully Enlightened Buddha." "I would ask concerning but one thing." "Subhadda, do not disturb the Blessed One, he is weary enough already." "Please, sir, have pity on me." "Blessed Lord, the wanderer Subhadda is demanding an audience with you." "He refuses to leave." "Ananda, let him come in." "He has come for the sake of knowledge." "Lord, your servant begs to ask..." "There are well known teachers who are renowned and famous, leaders of religious movements revered by the multitudes." "Have those masters attained enlightenment in accordance with their own teachings or have they not?" "Enough, Subhadda." "Put the question aside." "I shall teach you the Dhamma." "Listen to the Dhamma with a clear and attentive mind." "Any religious movement that does not cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path naturally has no wise monks." "But communities that cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path" "will have enlightened members..." "Just so does our community." "Your words are bright and clear." "It is as if one were to put upright what had been overturned, to reveal what had been hidden, to show the way to one who was lost." "I would take my refuge in the Blessed Lord Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha." "I request ordination, My Lord." "Subhadda, when you have become a monk, strive on with diligence." "Cultivate your mind." "And this very night, you will become an Arahant." "Oh, what great good fortune is mine."