It is an analysis and description of human existence as conditioned by desire and ignorance and a method of attainment of spiritual freedom through human effort.

In short, it describe human predicament and offers a rational method of spiritual freedom.

Borned as Siddhartha Gautama (563 - 483BC) as the son of an Indian Prince.

He was carefully kept within the palace grounds till he was 29, when he eluded the guards and saw 4 signs - an old man, representing old age; a sickly man, representing suffering; a corpse representing death; and a monk, representing peace. When he sat under the Bodhi tree, he realised what was the cause of human suffering which was desire

Thus after he experienced Nirvana, he decided to teach all those who would hear.

- Rather, it is the creation of a new and higher state of mind, panna.

-Buddha took no interest in philosophy as he did not think it did man any good to discuss what God was and whether he existed. He was more concerned about human misery and believed he found a way to cure it.

-Belif that Buddha was an incarnation of an Eternal Being, who has...

- State most desired as the pattern of life has been broken such that it is timeless and changeless.

Buddha rejected the Hindu version of the transmigration of the souls as he felt that eternal souls do not exist. He felt that one could only break the effects of karma, by giving up one's cravings so as to cease the Samsara reincarnation cycle through the nirvana.

- Buddha believed that it was man's desire to live and to have, that bound him to this world.

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