Theravada Buddhist Council of Malaysia
![Wesak Day Observance](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283467455-P3EETWHUKG8RWRGH03K5/image-asset.jpeg)
![Love, Marriage & Living in Tune](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283465427-CXNC8IHZ3JD4OBFNNJD4/image-asset.jpeg)
![Desire : 'Taṇhā' versus 'Chanda'](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283464558-CPSH2P55MFA7JEJN4NRC/image-asset.jpeg)
![Listening to (and Learning) the Dhamma](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283469237-60VXKPAA1LH1Y1E6D3ZU/image-asset.jpeg)
![The Buddha's Enlightenment & Brahma (God)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283463839-QS3ZMDI6Z2F3X0YPKV34/image-asset.jpeg)
The Buddha's Enlightenment & Brahma (God)
There have been misconceptions by certain quarters that Buddhas were (and will be) 'sent by' or that a Buddha's Enlightenment was 'given' by Brahma (God) (as taught in some popular philosophies). This error in understanding the Dhamma-Vinaya is often the result of 'wanting to see a deity behind everything' resulting in 'cherry-picking' (while ignoring the large body of teachings that provide the complete understanding of the subject), 'seeing things where there is nothing there' and 'blind to things which are in front of them' (quoted in their writings).
The following is a sampling from the Tipitaka and sharings from respected members of the Bhikkhu Saṅgha on the Buddha's Enlightenment & Brahma (God).
![Living in Concord : Cūḷagosinga Sutta MN 31](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283462850-B79660HDYXR9C6E0CU4C/image-asset.jpeg)
![What do we Talk about when we get together?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283462556-9TRAFA4XZ1T6NGPGWZYP/image-asset.jpeg)
![The Four Noble Truths](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283457256-CIPFI4U89SU6ZDI92HLN/image-asset.jpeg)
!['Chap Goh Meh' (Hokkien for the “15th night” of the Lunar New Year)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283456360-X752DXN7KPX1L1M6HGBZ/image-asset.jpeg)
![A New Beginning](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283455658-0Z2AOUIR88VH8M4GTVGP/image-asset.jpeg)
![How Much Rituals Should a Buddhist Do?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283456161-ZWQNL52T6Y5YR3QFYIEA/image-asset.jpeg)
![Gratitude : Kataññu](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283454326-CJ2OHA3GBDTX15DOEWS6/image-asset.jpeg)
![The Beginning](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283453948-03VDDMJ3Y2VY58O4F8HB/image-asset.jpeg)
![A Person of Integrity](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283453175-1M67I4SDGB7K5QM69GRP/image-asset.jpeg)
![Give up Anger](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283452393-0JXRMZ2JAXNHHJCO0A0U/image-asset.jpeg)
![Intention .. is Kamma](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283452688-SOVFA477205CAYX05SN3/image-asset.jpeg)
![Respect](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283451277-ZSK502B3KIGHHDFPWH1T/image-asset.jpeg)
![The purpose of this holy life](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283449447-JJU90W45ZA43LCNE27DV/image-asset.jpeg)
![Asalha Puja ("Dhamma Day")](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283448943-DIQCJK2E7ZY9QBL7U68R/image-asset.jpeg)
Asalha Puja ("Dhamma Day")
Asalha Puja commemorates the Buddha's first teaching: 'the Turning of the Wheel of Dhamma' (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta) to the five ascetics at the Deer Park (Sarnath) near Benares, India, on the full moon day of the 8th lunar month according to the old Indian calendar.
![Rathavinīta Sutta (The Relay Chariots) by Bhante Gunaratana](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb3712e078933551aaca793/1606283448250-U5BKQIGVX7JB7ABR6BW2/image-asset.jpeg)