In chapter 3, the author talks about Buddha’s life cycle. Buddha’s life began when his mother had a dream about giving birth to a great ruler or a holy man. Buddha believes that life begins from the common pain we share. Buddha’s teachings were about understanding the joyful or blissful nature of reality. He wanted people to understand the bliss and the joy in passing away. He wanted people to understand that death was ok because after life came reincarnation. The Buddha ancestry goes back to Mahasammata, he was the first king to rule at the first cycles of time as the world was being formed. The Buddha said "The relevance of it is in the message of the story. The promise of the story, like any good story it has a lot to teach. So, the story
