Buddha is the founder of Buddhism and Dhamma means the teaching of the Buddha. He taught the four noble truths for the people. They are :
(1)The Truth of Suffering
(2)The Truth of the Cause of suffering
(3)The Truth of the End of Suffering
During the Buddha time, Kisa Gautami was a young woman from a rich family who was married to a wealthy merchant. When her only son was about a year old, he suddenly fell ill and died. Overcome with Grief, Kisa Gautami took the dead child in her arms and went from house to house asking people of they knew of a medicine that could restore her child's life . Of course no one was able to help her. Finally, She met a follower of the Buddha, who advanced her to see the Buddha.
When she carried the dead child to the Buddha and told him her sad story, he listened with patience and compassion. He said to her," There is only one way to solve your problem. Go and get five mustard seeds from any family in which there has never been a death."
Kisa Gautami set off to look for such a household but without success. Every family she had visited experienced the death of one person or another.
At the last, She understood what the Buddha had wanted her to find out for herself-that death comes to all. Accepting the face that death is inevitable, she no longer grieved. she took the child's body away and later returned to the Buddha to become one of his followers.
The Buddha taught us to recognize that suffering is a fact of life and no one can avoid it, as stated in the first noble truth.
Birth is suffering
Old is suffering
Disease is suffering
Death is suffering. ( Buddha)
May the Buddha Sasana last forever and ever.
Written by Ashin Sandima( Dhammalayeik)
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