Sherab chodzin kohn biography definition

Sherab Chödzin Kohn is a student of Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa, and lives in Boulder, Colorado. His book, The Awakened One, is a biography of the Buddha.

Sherab chodzin kohn biography definition

This extract describes the key moment of Buddha’s liberation when he ‘saw through the very last trace of ignorance in himself’ at the first light of dawn.

In the third and last watch of the night, he applied himself to the task of rooting out this suffering once and for all.

He had clearly understood the wheel of dependent arising in which each stage follows from a preceding cause, beginning with ignorance. And he saw how beings were driven on it by the powerful motive force of karma. Now his divine eye sought the means of liberation.

He saw that through the cessation of birth, old age and death would not exist; through the cessation of becoming, there would be no birth; through the cessation of grasping, no becoming— and so back through the sequence