Learnings from the Buddha’s Life After Awakening

Date: 2024-12-19 Thursday

As we enter the sacredness of the Christmas season, it’s also a time to explore the inner qualities of the Buddha.

Our Eastside Insight tradition is to explore some aspect of the Buddha’s life, or that of his chief disciples, before Christmas. This year we’re going to break this into two sections, the first about the Buddha’s life before awakening, and the second about the time after.

On Dec. 5 we  explored the Buddha's life before awakening, and what we can learn from the situations he faced, and the choices he made, which support and inform our own spiritual journeys.

For this Dec. 19 sit  we’ll be  exploring who the  Buddha was  after  he awakened, some  of the choices  he  made and  avenues  he  offered, and what  they mean  in our lives. A tentative title is: Lessons from the Buddha after Enlightenment

The enlightened Buddha can seem so beyond our lives, that it can be hard to know how to relate. But there are many touch points or parallels between his life and our own, helpful for our own life journeys. We will explore these together.

Click here to listen to or download the talk on the Seattle Insight page.