Since King Suddhodana had long awaited a child, he and everyone else in the palace rejoiced at the birth of his son. The King immediately called a famous wise sage, Asita. Asita told the king, "If he remains at home, the child will become the Wheel-rolling King. If he leaves home, he will become the great teacher, the Buddha." "What shall my son see to make him retire from the world?" King Suddhodana asked the wise sage. "Four signs, a decrepit old man, a diseased man, a dead man and a monk - these four will make the prince retire from the world," replied Asita.

When Prince Siddhartha was only a few years old, his father, King Suddhodana sent him to school. There were many children in his class; all of them were from noble families. He learnt languages, reading, writing, mathematics, history, geography, science, and many games like boxing, archery, wrestling and many others. He le

Knowing that neither meditation nor ascetic austerities could lead to the Enlightenment, Siddhattha stopped following existing methods but turned to find his own way. He prepared a seat with soft grass under a Bodhi tree and meditated on his breathing in and breathing out on a full moon eve. In the first part of the night many evil thoughts, often described as being like the evil god Mara and his army, began to come into his mind. Thoughts of desire, craving, fear and attachment arose in his mind. Yet he did not allow these thoughts to disturb his concentration and he sat more firm than ever. He began to feel calm and brave as he let these thoughts go and in the first part of the night he found the power of seeing his own past lives. In the second part of the night he realized the impermanence of life and how living beings die only to be reborn again. In the third part of the night he realized the cause of all evil and suffering and how to be released from it. He understood ho!

- Before he was Buddha (the life of Siddhartha) book by Jack kornfield

The king put his precious son and his son's wife in a walled place with gardens, fountains, music, dancers, etc. Countless charming young ladies attended on Siddhartha to make him cheerful and happy. In particular, the king wanted to keep away from Siddhartha the "four signs" which would move him to enter into the ascetic life. "From this time on" said the king, "let no such persons be allowed to come near my son. It will never do for my son to become a Buddha. What I would wish to see is, my son exercising sovereign rule and authority over the four great continents and the two thousand attendant isles, and walking through the heavens surrounded by a retinue thirty-six leagues in circumference."

He then practiced asceticism, which was very common among Sanyasans. They believed that the human suffering was caused by the attachment to the physical body and the mental spirit. Suffering can only be freed by detaching the spirit imposed by the body. Therefore, they tormented themselves for the purpose of weakening the power of the physical body over the mental spirit, until the body was destructed. Jainism was considered to be the best in asceticism. Nine of the outstanding disciples

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