The Nine Special Qualities of the Buddha

(1) The Accomplished One (Arahan)

According to Visuddhimagga-Atthakatha, Arahan (Accomplished) has five definitions. The Blessed One is accomplished for the following reasons: 1. because He is far away from all internal conflicts (Arahan), 2-3. because He destroyed the defilement -- enemies and all the wheel’s spokes (Ara-han), 4. because He is worthy of
requisites (Arahan), and 5. because He is devoid of secret evil-doing (A-rahan). (The beginningless round of rebirths is called the wheel of the round of rebirths.)

(2) The Perfectly Enlightened One (Sammasambuddho)

The Lord Buddha is the Perfectly Enlightened One because He has known all things rightly by Himself. In fact, He has of Himself known all the things, knowable things as knowable, comprehensible things as comprehensible, removable things as removable, realizable things as realizable,and things that may be developed as such.

(3) The Endowed One with Knowledge and Conduct ( Vijjacaranaasampanno)

The Lord Buddha is One who is endowed with three or eight kinds of knowledge and fifteen kinds of conduct.

“Vijja” means (higher) knowledge and “Carana”, good conduct (practice) that guides to a noble disciple and sends him towards the deathless.

There are “Three Kinds of Knowledge”
1. The knowledge that the Buddha recollects His past lives,
2. the knowledge capable of seeing the decease and rebirth of beings, and
3. the knowledge capable of eradicating defilements.

There are “Eight Kinds of Knowledge”
1. The knowledge or ability of attaining insight (With this knowledge, He knows, “my body is material, made from four great elements, born of mother and father, fed on rice and gruel, impermanent, liable to be injured and abraded, broken and destroyed, and this is my consciousness which is bound to it and dependent on it.”),
2. the knowledge of the production of a mind-made body, or the supernormal power of the mind-made body (With this knowledge, out of this body He produces another body, having a form, mind-made, complete in all its limbs and faculities.),
3. the various supernormal powers (With the super-normal powers, being one, He becomes many, and being many, He becomes one; He appears and disappears; He passes through fences, walls, and mountains unhindered as if through air; He sinks into the ground and emerges from it as if it were water; He walks on the water
without breaking the surface as if on land; He flies cross-legged through the air like a bird with wings; He even touches and strokes with His hand the sun and moon, mighty and powerful as they are, and He travels in the body as far as the Brahma world.),
4. the divine ear (With the divine ear, He hears sounds both divine and human, whether far or near.),
5. the knowledge of others’ minds [understanding the ways of others’ thought] (With this knowledge, He knows and distinguishes with His mind the minds of other beings.),
6. the knowledge of previous existences [the remembrance of one’s former states of existence] (With this knowledge, He remembers many previous existences: one birth, two births,. . . . a hundred thusand births etc.),
7. the divine eye or the knowledge of the passing-away and arising of beings (With this divine eye, He sees beings passing-away and arising, inferior and superior, well-favored and ill-favored, to happy and unhappy destinations as kamma directs them.), and
8. the knowledge of eradicating defilements (With mind concentrated, purified and cleansed, unblemished, free from impurities, malleable, workable, established and having gained imperturability, He applies and directs his mind to the knowledge of eradicating defilements or destruction of corruptions. With this knowledge, He
knows as it really is: “This is suffering, the origing of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering.)
(Dighanikaya, Vol.1,Samathaphala Sutta)

The Fifteen kinds of the Good Conducts are as follows:
1. Restraint by virtue (moral restraint),
2. Guarding the doors of the sense faculties (Watching over the sense-doors),
3. Moderation in eating,
4. Watchfulness,
5. Faith,
6. Shame of wrong-doing,
7. Fear of wrong-doing,
8. Great learning,
9. Energy,
10. Mindfulness,
11. Wisdom, and
12-15. Four Jhanas of the fine material sphere.

( 4) The Well-gone One or The Well-spoken One ( Sugata)

The term “Sugata” has two definitions:
1. One who has gone to the deathless, Nibbana and
2. One who speaks rightly, (It means that the Lord Buddha speaks only fitting speech in the fitting place).

The Six kinds of Speech

The Six Kinds of Speech are as follows:
1. The first one which is untrue, incorrect, and unbeneficial, and unwelcome and disagreeable to others,
2. the second which is true and correct, but unbeneficial, and unwelcome and disagreeable to others,
3. the third which is true, correct, and beneficial, but unwelcome and disagreeable to others,
4. the fourth which is untrue, incorrect, and unbeneficial, but welcome and agreeable to others,
5. the fifth which is true and correct but unbeneficial, and welcome and agreeable to others, and
6. the sixth which is true and correct, and beneficial, and welcome and agreeable to others.

Of them, only the third and sixth are the two kinds of speech that the Lord Buddha speaks because those are true, correct, and beneficial. (Majjhi-manikaya, Vol. 2, Abhayaraja-kumara Sutta)


(5) The Knower of the Worlds ( Lokavidu)

The Buddha is the Knower of Worlds because He has known the world in all ways.
There are Three Kinds of World:
1.The world of formations (Sankaraloka),
2. The world of beings (Sattaloka),
3. The world of location (Okasaloka).

(6) The Incomparable Leader of men to be Tamed (Anuttaro purisadammasarathi)

The Buddha surpasses the whole world in the special qualities of virtue, concentration, understanding, deliverance, and knowledge and vision of deliverance, so He is the Incomparable Leader (Master) of men to be tamed.

(7) The Teacher of Celestial and Human Beings (Sattha devamanussanan)

It is usual for religious masters to seek advice or teaching from the deities or gods, but this would never happen in the case of the Buddha. The deities are also beings caught in the round of rebirths because they could not find the way out of it. The Buddha did not seek counsel from human beings either, and relied solely on His knowledge of the Dhamma. On the other hand, deities and human beings merely come to Him for counsel or advice and teaching, thus He is the teacher of them.

(8) The Enlightened One (Buddho)

The Lord has discovered the Four Noble Truths by Himself and awakened others to them, thus He is enlightened.

The Four Noble Truths that He has discovered are:
(1) the truth of suffering,
(2) the truth of the cause of suffering,
(3) the truth of the cessation of suffering, and
(4) the truth of the way leading to the cessation of suffering.

(9) The Blessed One (Bhagava)

How to configure secondary DNS at windows 2000 Server

Now we will configure the Secondary Name Server for our zone. If you haven't done so already, install the DNS Server on the backup server. If you forgot how then check part 1 of the tutorial. After the DNS Server is installed, go to Start, Settings, and Control Panel. Open Administrative Tools and double-click on the DNS icon. The DNS Manager for the Secondary Name Server will open up. Expand the tree by clicking the plus (+) signs and then right-click on Forward Lookup Zones and select New Zone.

The New Zone Wizard dialog box should open. This time we will be selecting the Standard Secondary option since we are creating a Secondary Name Server. Click Next.

Install and Configure Windows 2000 DNS Server
Part 3 - Secondary Name Server for a Zone

Type in the domain name somefakedomain.com (or type in your domain name if you are setting up an existing one) and then click Next.




Now the wizard will ask us for the IP address of the Primary Name Server which it will pull the zone information from. Type in the IP address of your Primary Name Server and then click Add. It should be placed in the bottom listbox. Click Next.


The zone has now been created. Click Finish.





You may be presented with an error like the following. If you remember back when we set up our primary server, we edited the SOA record. On the Zone Transfers tab we told it to only send a copy of our zone to the name servers listed on the Name Servers tab. At that time we only had one server which was the Primary Name Server. Now we will add our Secondary Name Server to the SOA on the Primary Name Server.



Go back to your Primary Name Server and open up the DNS Manager. We will add a new host called ns2 (i.e. name server 2) and add it to our Name Servers list in our SOA. Right-click on the somefakedomain.com folder and select New Host.




I set up my Secondary Name Server on a machine with the IP of 192.168.1.99 (yours will be different). When the New Host dialog box appears, add the host ns2 and put in the IP address of your Secondary Name Server. Click OK.




Next we will edit our SOA record to add the Secondary Name Server to the Name Servers list. Right-click on the SOA record and select Properties.



Go to the Name Servers tab and click on the Add button.




Type in the server name, IP address, and click on the Add button. Or use the Browse button to select the ns2 host record (which is what I suggest). Click OK.





Both the Primary and Secondary Name Servers should now be listed on the Name Servers tab. The Primary Name Server now knows that our Secondary Server should receive a copy of the zone file. Click OK.



Go back to your Secondary Name Server and right-click the somefakedomain.com folder and select Transfer From Master. This tells the Secondary Server to pull a copy of our zone information.





The DNS Manager should now show a copy of all the Hosts, SOA, Name Servers, and Mail Exchange for our zone. That's it! You just created a Backup DNS Server.



The last thing we should do is query our Secondary Name Server and make sure it responds. On the server or any other machine, open a command prompt and run the nslookup utility. Got to Start and click Run. Type in cmd and press enter. Type in the following commands.

nslookup
server 192.168.1.99
somefakedomain.com
www.somefakedomain.com
mail.somefakedomain.com
exit

If everything works then you should see the Secondary Name Server respond with the IP addresses of the hosts we entered. You might also wanna do a lookup on ns1.somefakedomain.com and ns2.somefakedomain.com just for fun.