At this Fullmoon Day do all Buddhas Awaken:
2009 May 8 Wesak Day celebrates the birth, Enlightenment, & passing away
of the Buddha Gotama. Keep Clean, Calm, Clever, Kind, Generous, and Gentle!

Photo by K. Kawasaki.

Remember:
At this May full moon in year 534 BC the Blessed Buddha awakened
by completely perfect & utterly unsurpassable self-Enlightenment!
At that time a girl named Sujata Senani lived in Uruvela. When adult,
she prayed before a certain Banyan tree, that she might get a good
husband equal to herself in caste & that her firstborn may be a son.
Her prayer was successful, since so indeed did it happen. At the full
moon day of the Wesak month, she rose at early dawn & milked the
cows. As soon as new buckets were placed under the cows, the milk
poured in streams spontaneously all by itself! Seeing this miracle,
she knew something special was going on. Now at that very night the
Future Buddha had 5 dreams that made him conclude: Surely, truly,
without any doubt, today is the very day, I will reach Enlightenment!
His 5 colored radiance illuminated the whole tree. Then Sujata came
and offered the cooked milk rice in the hands of the Great Being.( Read more... )