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Maintaining the ultimate aim of welcoming the degree of achievement of the Buddha, we must strive to imagine what life was like in the first months in India, especially in towns and villages in the Ganges river valley, such as Kapilavastu at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains, is now the country of Nepal. This is the district, where the Buddha was probably conceived; around 560 BC consistently, the current has dominated the valley by destroying crops. The storms also came every year, making devastation.
The Brahmins (Hindu priests) chanted Vedic chants (the most established writings of Hinduism) and penances offered fire to Brahma (Hindu divine power of creation). In any case, they have not updated the conditions for the typical man. From the most specific circumstances, the Hindu society was stratified. The castes settled the economy firmly with the Brahmins, the managers and the performers of extremely positive by their social order.
The middle way
One of the greatest spiritual conquests of the Buddha was the beginning of the middle way. He discovered the regulation of the middle way simply after having lived for a long time as ascetic. This experience has convinced him that the extremes must be avoided.
Karma transgresses beginning with one life and then the next. Determine how a being (major or minor) will be renewed. Karma is not predestination because the possibility of predestination does not consider an unbridled decision. Current circumstances are controlled by events from previous life, but there is a total opportunity between the present and the future. The upward compactness is possible.
A being can experience the Buddha and have a privileged point of view in human domination. How can salvation be achieved? Everything is short, everything is intermittent, everything is distressing. Nirvana is the usual name for what is not samsara. Where is Nirvana? There is no place Nirvana is out of the vertical thinking of the universe (I.B.Horner, 1975-77).
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