The life of man can be like the life of the Buddha.
There is the milestone of birth, the attainment of success and then the celebration of life in death following the mission to serve society.
There is the milestone of birth, the attainment of success and then the celebration of life in death following the mission to serve society.
But in the case of men, the three milestones have more to do with worldly life but then for the more discerning wise, they make these the milestones of spiritual life.
We are born for a purpose or spiritual intent. We prepare and train to be able to succeed as an independent adult in life. We graduate to life in society and serve society. We mark the end as celebration of life in death to be able to join with saints in Heaven to do more what we could not otherwise do as men on Earth.
This threefold milestones of life of ordinary men underlie the same three milestones of the life of the very man who became the Buddha though are poor or lesser cousins of those of the great Buddha.
We too can be a bit like the Buddha and have the same three milestones in life. We cannot be the Buddha for now but he can be our inspiration and light.
We can model after him in our own small and humble way. This is yet another perspective of Vesak.
This is what the great Buddha expect of us. There is no need to idolise him or kiss the ground he walked on.
But we can at least do more than that. We can learn from him, to be somehow a bit like him and at least be in his shadow or some distance away.
This post is entitled as "Another perspective of Vesak" because of the motivation from Lord Bo Tien that we can apply a spiritual lesson from what we learn spiritually and apply it to our life. It will work as well both in spiritual and mundane worldly life.
This post is entitled as "Another perspective of Vesak" because of the motivation from Lord Bo Tien that we can apply a spiritual lesson from what we learn spiritually and apply it to our life. It will work as well both in spiritual and mundane worldly life.