Buddha's Compassionate Sacrifice || Acharya Prashant

Full video : When Buddha decides to die || Acharya Prashant, at Goa University (2022)

Transcript

00:00The Buddha is going and there is this butcher taking away a goat for slaughter and the Buddha

00:06tells the butcher why are you slaughtering the goat please leave the goat the butcher says but

00:11you know I kill the goat and I make my ends meet there's certain money to be had so the

00:17Buddha says how much money the butcher tells an amount Buddha is not having that kind of thing

00:23so the Buddha says fine it's flesh that you'd get from this animal right the butcher says yes

00:28all right you take that similar weight of flesh from my body and leave the poor animal now here

00:34you find the one with the highest consciousness prepared to sacrifice himself for an animal with

00:42a very low level of consciousness that's how love operates