The life of the prince was close to perfection, he had a beautiful wife and loved child, together with the respect and obedience of more than hundreds of servants; However, after seeing the life outside the palace, his vision of the perfect world he had vanished. The young prince searched for answers that could explain the world to him and after mediating under the shadow of a pipal tree, he found his answer. “When he opened his eyes, he saw the world in a totally different way. “I am awake”, he said. At that moment, the Buddha, the Enlightened One, arrived in the world, and Buddhism was born.” Buddha proclaimed love, self-awareness, and freedom of the soul by letting go of any preoccupations that could feed an individual’s ego and obstruct the enlightenment needed to reach nirvana. The straightforwardness of Buddha’s teaching allowed an increased on popularity, bringing attention outside of India as well; this time period is known today as the golden age of Buddhism. However, as the first doctrine of Buddhism teaches, nothing is permanent in this realm; Buddha died at eighty years of age, leaving after him a new set of ideas that would slowly transform part of the
The life of the prince was close to perfection, he had a beautiful wife and loved child, together with the respect and obedience of more than hundreds of servants; However, after seeing the life outside the palace, his vision of the perfect world he had vanished. The young prince searched for answers that could explain the world to him and after mediating under the shadow of a pipal tree, he found his answer. “When he opened his eyes, he saw the world in a totally different way. “I am awake”, he said. At that moment, the Buddha, the Enlightened One, arrived in the world, and Buddhism was born.” Buddha proclaimed love, self-awareness, and freedom of the soul by letting go of any preoccupations that could feed an individual’s ego and obstruct the enlightenment needed to reach nirvana. The straightforwardness of Buddha’s teaching allowed an increased on popularity, bringing attention outside of India as well; this time period is known today as the golden age of Buddhism. However, as the first doctrine of Buddhism teaches, nothing is permanent in this realm; Buddha died at eighty years of age, leaving after him a new set of ideas that would slowly transform part of the