Siddhartha Guatama

Siddhartha Guatama, or as he is better known, Buddha was born in Nepal in the sixth century B.C. and lived into the fourth century B.C. He was born into a large clan by the name of the Shakyas. His given name, Siddhartha means “he who achieves his aim”. His father is said to have been king of the tribe and his mother to have died only a few days after giving birth to him. It was foretold by a holy man that Siddhartha would go on to do great things in his life, whether it be military, political, or spiritual.
Siddhartha’s father would go to great lengths to shelter his son from witnessing the misery, hate, and suffering of the world. He was very worried his son would be exposed to such things and that it would impact him negatively. It became an irrational fear of his to a degree that he built for him a palace built just for the boy to stay in and would not allow him to leave it even as he grew up. In fact, when Siddhartha was sixteen years of age, as was the custom, he was married. However, he stayed in seclusion for another thirteen years after he was married. His father sheltered him from all things …show more content…
He would have total control of his mind and all the things which affected and weighed on it. Every facet of time and space, present, future, and past and even distance melded together and became a single state. He was aware of every single cell in his body and would grasp a timeless presence. It is at this point that Siddhartha would transform his mind, body and spirit into the “enlightened on” or Buddha and thus he shall be referred to as such.
Buddha was hesitant to teach this new found knowledge at first because he was unsure as how to teach it since it could not be conveyed by using something as simple as words. It is said that at this point, the king of the gods, Brahma, convinced Buddha to teach. Once he was convinced he set out to do just