Bodhi Day is a holiday that commemorates the Enlightenment of the Buddha and the start of the Buddhist tradition. It is December 8th. The story is that Siddhartha Gautama, after years of trying different things, sat under a tree and declared that he would meditate until he found the root of suffering and the way out of suffering. He entered deeper and deeper levels of meditation and he became Awakened to the truth about suffering. At this moment he had... Read more