Unpacking the Buddha's First Discourse

When the Buddha spoke his first discourse, the universe didn’t just listen—it shook. A cry echoed all the way to the Brahma world, the ten-thousandfold cosmos quaked, and a radiance brighter than the devas lit the sky. Was this myth, metaphor, or a glimpse into the sheer magnitude of awakening? In Episode 16, The Brahma World Quaked, we take apart this extraordinary passage line by line, asking what it reveals about the scope, immediacy, and impact of the Buddha’s words.