Bodhi Day

Early December

     Bodhi Day is technically not a Daihoe (major) Service but rather a special service held in early December.  It is held to commemorate the day when Siddhartha Gotama experienced and became the Buddha (the "Awakened One"); and to remember his teachings, which he imparted to us as the "Four Noble Truths":

• All beings are subject to suffering.  No one escapes....  suffering is universal.  
  
• The cause of suffering is ignorance.  And ignorance of oneself is the greatest ignorance. 
  
• Ignorance, the cause of suffering, can be removed.
  
• The way of removing ignorance is the "Eightfold Noble Path."