The Beginning of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama was born in Nepal in the 6th century B.C., whose life and teaching serve as the foundation of the Buddhist religion. Siddhartha the future Buddha was born to a royal family, his father, Suddhodhana was the King of the Kshatriyas. After five days of his birth, Suddhodhana gathered eight wise men to foresee the royal baby’s future. It was then, one of the wise men predicted that one day the kid would go out in search of truth and become the supremely enlightened one. His mother, Mahamaya died seven days after his birth and from there on his mother’s sister, Pajapati Gotami took care of him.
According to Kshetria custom, the older son is supposed to be the worthy successor of the father. Hence, Suddhodhana …show more content…
The first truth was, there is suffering. In fact, he did not mean that there is no happiness in the world, but what he motioned was the suffering is inevitable. For instance, we can all find happiness and pleasure in friendship, family or even being in a healthy physical state, but once we lose them there is suffering. The second truth was the cause of suffering. Buddha explained the cause as the things that people want the most since, it could possibly make them suffer the most. For example, a child who has once tasted the candy wants more candy. Even though he gets a tummy-ache from having too much candy, he gets upset when his mom denies to give him more candy. The third truth according to Buddha is the end of suffering or the state of Nirvana. He also revealed the truth as a path to end sufferings called, the Noble Eightfold Path.
Thus, he described that to attain Nirvana or to cease suffering one should follow the Noble Eightfold Path, namely; right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration (Thera 34). This is basically the essence of Buddha’s ideas. He traveled widely across many parts of India and speared the Dharma, means Buddha’s teachings such as The Noble Truth of Life and the Noble Eightfold path for forty-five years. Buddha breathes his last breath at the age of eighty, in 486
Siddhartha Gautama was born in Nepal in the 6th century B.C., whose life and teaching serve as the foundation of the Buddhist religion. Siddhartha the future Buddha was born to a royal family, his father, Suddhodhana was the King of the Kshatriyas. After five days of his birth, Suddhodhana gathered eight wise men to foresee the royal baby’s future. It was then, one of the wise men predicted that one day the kid would go out in search of truth and become the supremely enlightened one. His mother, Mahamaya died seven days after his birth and from there on his mother’s sister, Pajapati Gotami took care of him.
According to Kshetria custom, the older son is supposed to be the worthy successor of the father. Hence, Suddhodhana …show more content…
The first truth was, there is suffering. In fact, he did not mean that there is no happiness in the world, but what he motioned was the suffering is inevitable. For instance, we can all find happiness and pleasure in friendship, family or even being in a healthy physical state, but once we lose them there is suffering. The second truth was the cause of suffering. Buddha explained the cause as the things that people want the most since, it could possibly make them suffer the most. For example, a child who has once tasted the candy wants more candy. Even though he gets a tummy-ache from having too much candy, he gets upset when his mom denies to give him more candy. The third truth according to Buddha is the end of suffering or the state of Nirvana. He also revealed the truth as a path to end sufferings called, the Noble Eightfold Path.
Thus, he described that to attain Nirvana or to cease suffering one should follow the Noble Eightfold Path, namely; right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration (Thera 34). This is basically the essence of Buddha’s ideas. He traveled widely across many parts of India and speared the Dharma, means Buddha’s teachings such as The Noble Truth of Life and the Noble Eightfold path for forty-five years. Buddha breathes his last breath at the age of eighty, in 486