Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/15/2019

The current Buddha Gotama, reflecting on how the world had fallen into suffering, became awakened by understanding dependent origination.“Mendicants, before my awakening—when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening—I thought: ‘Alas, this world has fallen into trouble. It’s born, grows old, dies, passes away, and is reborn, yet it doesn’t understand how to escape from this suffering, from old age and death. Oh, when will an escape be found from this suffering, from old age and death? [Read More]