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- You are carrying a child who will be a great man! And his future held two possible paths. As the prince, he could cruel the universe, or become the Buddha!
- I decided that raising the prince in a world of perfect wealth and beauty would protect he from all of the horrors of the world.
- How can you sit there so peace fully when there is so much suffering in the world around you?
- To be free of suffering, one must give up the desires, pleasures, and comforts of the world. I find peace by helping others find peace.
- Prince Siddhartha was born about 563 BCE in the present-day country of Nepal, near the Himalayas. his father, Suddhodana, was a powerful king, his mother was Queen Maya. They asked the Brahmins about the prince's future.
- He became terribly thin from lack of food. Eventually became unhappy with his extreme way of living, and he had not yet found the key to enlightenment.
- Prince Siddhartha's father wanted his son to be a great and powerful ruler. The king was worried about the Brahmins' prediction. The prince saw the world's suffering, he might ignore his royal duties to seek a spiritual path.
- By morning, the young prince had become the Buddha, the Awakened One. He had reached enlightenment.
- When Siddharth was 29, the king gave him more freedom to travel outside the royal palace. the discovery of aging, sickness, and death deeply troubled the prince. Unable to sit at home with his thoughts, he set out again, where he met a man who glowed with inner peace and calm. The man was an ascetic, a person who gives up worldly pleasures such as possessions, fine clothes, money, and even shelter.
- Prince Siddhartha wanted to find the happiness and peace that the ascetic had found. He decided to give up his old lifestyle and search for enlightenment. Becoming enlightened would mean finding deep truth and freedom from suffering. He cut off his hair with a knife, put on a simple robe, and carried only a small bowl for alms, or gifts of food. Wishing his driver farewell, Siddhartha began his life as an ascetic.
- He aimed to find a balance between the extremes of pleasure and pain. He would be neither a prince nor an ascetic. Instead, he would seek a ''middle way'' as a path to enlightenment. On his 35th birthday, Siddharths bathed in the river and rested quietly. Then a grass cutter granted him eight handfuls of soft grass as a present. Siddhartha walked until he reach a tree that would become known as the Bodhi, or Enlightenment, tree.
- TheBuddha could have selfishly escaped into enlightenment. Instead, he chose to teach others the path that he had found. In time, his followers spread his teachings throughout India and other parts of Asia.
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