The Life of the Buddha - The supreme awakening of the Buddha | What is Enlightenment? | Spirituality

The account of the Buddha's awakening according to the most ancient sources, the Sutta and Vinaya Pitaka told by Ajahn Moneyyo. Hear how the Buddha was striving and succeeded in his quest to realize awakening - the deathless, ultimate liberation.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction and the practice of the Budhisatta before awakening
30:33 The first true knowledge - remembering his previous lives
37:41 The second true knowledge - seeing how beings arise and pass away according to their kamma
39:53 How did the first two true knowledges lead to the knowledge of the destruction of the taints, the third true knowledge and the four noble truth, unshakable liberation?
49:00 What are the "taints" (Pali: Asava)?
54:52 Bodhgaya - The place where the Buddha realized the supreme awakening
For more Dhammatalks about the life of the Buddha, click on the link below:
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Quoted discourses where the Buddha talks himself about his practice and his realization of awakening:
Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya) Sutta Nr. 4, 12, 26, 36, 128
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Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya) Sutta No. 5:28 and 10:81
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Udana 1:1-3
Long Discourses of the Buddha (Digha Nikaya) Sutta Nr. 9
Two recommended Sutta Anthologies about the life of the Buddha are available for free download:
"The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon" by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli Thera
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"Noble Warrior" by Ajahn Thanissaro
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If you are interested to visit the places where the Buddha lived, walked and taught you can read "Middle Land, Middle Way" by Ven. S. Dhammika, the best travel guide about the buddhist holy sites in India:
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In addition to these videos, we also publish about two new Dhamma talks and guided meditations every week as audio podcasts. The latest podcasts, and some 300 earlier ones on a wide variety of subjects, are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts/itunes, Castbox, Google Podcasts, and many other podcast apps. Just search for "Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts" on your favourite podcast app. Or you can simply listen with with your browser directly from the Dhammagiri podcasts page: www.dhammagiri...
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