The Buddha

A few months back, my mother called me into the room and said, "I want to show you something. I think you'll be interested in it." What she showed me was a PBS special on The Buddha. It was the most interesting and well put together video I've seen on The Buddha. So I've decided to put up this documentary, created by filmmaker David Grubin, in hopes that you will take the time to witness the intensity in which Siddhārtha Gautama aka The Buddha searches for truth and find enlightenment.

When I first started looking into religions and ways of life different from my own, a heaviness was on me. I was in complete fear of upsetting God for looking into "other" ways, that the religion I was brought up in would call pagan. But something deep inside me decided to use the brain I was given and follow my gut feeling to seek and find out whatever it was I wanted to know. I'm a strong believer and practitioner that if you want to find out the truth, look for it yourself and trust no ones word. I greatly believe what we call God can "speak" to the human in the most craziest ways. It may be through an email subject line, through iTunes song titles once you've put iTunes on shuffle lol, through a movie, picture, and obviously a person. Now, I know most people don't trust other people as far as they can throw them, but nonetheless, I have learned that sometimes God will use the most random people to tell you something. 

So take a look at The Buddha's life and see if you can relate. :)

Watch the full episode. See more The Buddha.