💐 Qualities of the Buddha.
Gotama Buddha once defined a Buddha as follows: "A buddha is one who, having discriminatory knowledge of the entire field of suffering, understands the arising and passing of all miseries, is completely free from mental defilements, is pristinely pure and will not be reborn."
🌷 A Buddha is always known by the following qualities:
He is an exalted one (bhagavā) because, having vanquished all craving, aversion and delusion, he lives the life of a liberated person.
He is a conqueror of enemies (araham) because he has annihilated all his enemies, in the form of mental impurities.
Having become fully enlightened by his own rightful efforts (sammā sambuddho), he is a perfectly enlightened being.
He is perfect in both wisdom and conduct (vijjā-carana-sampanno).
He has gone to the ultimate truth (sugato) because he has become pure in body, speech and mind.
He is the knower of worlds (loka-vidū) because he understands them through personal experience.
He is the unsurpassed charioteer of tameable men (anuttaro purisa-damma-sārathi)
He is teacher of gods and men (satthā deva-manussānamṃ).
🌷 Anyone who acquires these qualities will become a Buddha.
And whoever is a Buddha will have these qualities.
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