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Episode #009 ... The Buddha

2013/11/11
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莲花是佛教的重要象征,它象征着通往开悟的道路。莲花生长在污泥之中,最终却能绽放出美丽的莲花,这象征着人类即使生于困境,也能通过努力获得开悟,超越困境,最终获得解脱。佛陀将自己的开悟之路比作莲花,从水中升起,最终获得自由和解脱。他自称“觉醒者”,象征着其超越世俗的开悟。

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Siddhartha Gautama, born into a life of luxury, experiences a transformative moment known as the four sights, which leads him to question the nature of suffering and his own privileged existence.

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On this episode of the podcast, we learn about the life of Siddhartha Gautama and his Heisenberg-esque transformation into Buddha. We learn how Buddha left a lifestyle of being fed grapes and being fanned with palm leaves to pursue a life of celibacy, starvation, and sleep deprivation. We also learn about how Buddha reached enlightenment while sitting beneath a fruit tree à la Isaac Newton, and about the four noble truths which he believed were the key to ending human suffering once and for all. All this and more on the latest episode of Philosophize This!

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