To Bow to the Six Directions (The Sigalovada Sutta) - Nagavajri

To Bow to the Six Directions This week Nagavajri tells the story of the meeting between Sigala and the Buddha. Sigala was a young householder only concerned with material prosperity, but performing daily ritual out of duty to his parents. The Buddha teaches him how he could have a peaceful mind and how the lifeless ritual he has been doing could become something life-changing to engage with. What was The Buddha really like? We are told that the Buddha broke through into a radically different state of being, transcending ordinary human consciousness. What might it have been like to encounter that? There was something magnetic, awesome, mysterious, and powerful about The Buddha. Some people even ‘WOKE UP!’ just by being in his presence. During this series we will go on a journey, where we will glimpse The Buddha by imagining our way into some of the brilliant stories handed down to us - stories of an Enlightened Being interacting with the people he met. We’ll be asking ourselves, what we can learn about The Buddha from these stories…and we’ll attempt to bring some of those qualities into the situations and people that we encounter in our daily life.