Buddha's path to enlightenment
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- You will someday rule this wonderful kingdom, Siddhartha.
- Your child will be a great king OR spiritual leader.
- OH NO!!!
- Siddhartha Guatama was born in the 500’s BCE in Nepal (India). he grew up as a wealthy Hindu prince and had all the luxuries he desired. His father was a king and he wanted Siddhartha to be a king as well.
- Siddhartha’s father shielded him from everything unpleasant because he wanted Siddhartha to become a king and not a holy man (Spriritual leader). A fortune teller told his father that SIddhartha could take either of the paths. As a result, Siddhartha was hidden from the truth and never saw suffering… poor, sad, or sick people.
- Siddhartha saw an old crippling man with no teeth, holding on to a stick for support. The second man he saw was a man shrinkled by disease. The third man he saw was a dead man, and he realized we would face the same thing one day. Siddhartha also saw a wandering, homeless, holy man that looked at peace. Siddhartha wanted to search for this same peace.
- Siddhartha began his search to know the truth about life, suffering, and death by selling all of his rich clothing, buying a simpe robe, and cutting his hair. With the Hindu gurus, he learned mditation techniques and different teachings of the upanishads. when he joins the Ascetics, he denys himself everything and starts fasting to seek a physical god.
- Siddhartha sat down under a fig tree,, or the Bohdi tree, to meditate. He ended upmeditating for 49 days and nights. While meditating, he understood the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. He then reached an awaerness that freed him from the ties of the world. He entered a life without suffering, he had become, Buddha.
- After Siddhartha reached enlightenment, he traveled all across India to share his knowledge with the people. Many didn’t believe him, but the ones who did came to be members of Buddhism.
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