[Buddha-l] Re: Meditating Buddha

[Bernie Simon]

> On 1/19/06, Stefan Detrez <stefan.detrez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Archetypical for Buddhist art is a meditating Buddha. However, one can
>> wonder WHY a Buddha has to meditate, assuming the he/she is 
>> enlightened, and
>> enlightenment excludes the necessity of (further) meditation.

This question gets asked and answered in The Questions of King Milinda. 
See

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe35/sbe3512.htm

and scroll down to "ON THE ADVANTAGES OF MEDITATION"

Part of the answer is, "There are four, reasons for which the 
Tathâgatas, O king, devote themselves to meditation. And what are the 
four?

That they may dwell at ease, O king

and on account of the abundance of the advantages of meditation, 
advantages without drawback

and on account of its being the road to all noble things without 
exception

and because it has been praised and lauded and exalted and magnified by 
all the Buddhas."

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