Buddha Desana
And Essential Principles of Enlightenment
by Sayadaw U Pannadipa | 1998 | 17,153 words
Aggamaha Saddhamma Jotika Dhaja Dean, Faculty of Patipatti, I T B M U, Yangon 1998...
Chapter 3 - Supreme Qualities Of The Buddha
The Buddha therefore by virtue of His Supreme Enlightenment is endowed with the following nine inherent qualities
- The Lord is worthy,
- Omniscient,
- Endowed with Supreme Knowledge and Virtue,
- Well gone to Nibbana
- Knower of all worlds,
- An incomparable Charioteers for the training of persons.
- Teacher of Gods and Men,
- Fully Enlightened and
- Supremely Glorious.
After attaining Buddhahood, the Buddha expounded the Doctrine which He Himself found out in His search. In His Teaching, the Dhamma, the Buddha proclaimed to the world that man in his nature has latent inconceivable possibilities and talented creative power within himself for the attainment of supreme happiness. He, of course, can gain purification, enlightenment and deliverance, by his own effort through the practice of the Dhamma .
The Buddha made no discrimination as to caste, colour, race, sex, rank or position, but He taught that all beings are the same, as they have been made up of two constituent components, i.e. mind and body, and also pointed out that they have therefore equal opportunities for the attainment of liberation.
He explicitly encouraged His followers to have freedom of thought and action to practise the Teaching aiming only at one objective, i.e. that they might be liberated from the woeful anguish of life and attain the Ultimate Peaceful Happiness of Nibbana.