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The Buddha told us that "Life is Suffering". One who does not understand the Truth of this may think that life is meaningless and become negative and pessimistic. Actually, this theory is commonly misunderstood. People in society and even some Buddhists are trapped in this wrong and gloomy view.
Life expectancy don't jump like 100 to 90 to 80 or 100 to 200 to 400. It's a gradual process. Normally, one would not believe such claims as above. That's because human lifespan is very short. It's like explaining 50 year old man 1 month old bee (honeybee life expectancy ~= 1 month), how much long have he lived or.
8. Three months after Shakyamuni's death the first Buddhist Council was convened. There was no written method to record his teaching so a group of monks, many with eidetic memories, were chosen to commit the Buddha's lessons to memory. This was the system used to pass down his teachings for hundreds of years.
1st, the life-expectancy for human at this kalpa of this period is 100, Buddha lived till 80, which is within and fits in, to set example that a human can reach enlightenment, same as Buddha who is a human. 2nd, Buddha gave a metaphor in the Lotus Sutra, that a loving father (Buddha) in making his sons (students) to take the curing medicine ...
1.) Sexy girls couldn't touch him, sexy boys couldn't touch him, sexy others couldn't touch him because Soil nearby buddha is clear of any footprints, otherwise Mara could've quoted it. 2.) This earth also refers to the base point where karmic dhamma activity occurs at atomic scale.
Grasping is a condition for continued existence. Continued existence is a condition for rebirth. Rebirth is a condition for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come to be. That is how this entire mass of suffering originates. In SN6.1, the Buddha thinks about the difficulty of teaching what has not been taught ...
This is the first archaeological material linking the life of the Buddha — and thus the first flowering of Buddhism — to a specific century. You could find the full story from here and here. Apart from that, king Ashoka built Pillars at Buddhist monasteries, many important sites from the life of the Buddha and places of pilgrimage.
7. Please be advised that, although many people will give you their take on how lust is to be "mindfully integrated" into daily life, this is the complete opposite of the Buddha's teaching. Soṇa Sutta: Soṇa. It's not easy, living at home, to practice the holy life totally perfect, totally pure, a polished shell.
Death and the impermanence of life. In the teaching of the Buddha, all of us will pass away eventually as a part in the natural process of birth, old-age and death and that we should always keep in mind the impermanence of life. The life that we all cherish and wish to hold on.
1. A Buddha can live as long as he wants – even an aeon, as the Buddha potentially have the age or lifespan of an aeon. – but this decision depends on the others. If an arahant that is closest to a Buddha makes a formal convincing request for a Buddha to live for many thousands of years, he will do so. But always the Mara gets in the way ...