When Buddha became enlightened, he exclaimed:
- This is incredible! This means that I was enlightened from the very beginning, and all these chains and shackles were just a dream!
Subsequently, when people asked him: “What should we do to get rid of vices?”, the Buddha invariably answered: “Be aware, bring awareness into your life.”
Listening to him, Ananda, one of his disciples, asked:
— People come to you with different problems, but you have one recipe for all “illnesses.” For example, one person asks: “How to get rid of anger?”, you answer him: “Be aware!” Another asks: “How to get rid of greed?”, you answer him: “Be aware!” The third one asks: “How to get rid of gluttony?” You also advise him: “Be mindful.” How to understand this?
Buddha replied:
“Their illnesses differ from each other, just as the dreams that different people have differ. But if they all come to me and ask, I will tell them: “Begin to be aware! Awake!"
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru