Reading Notes: Life of Buddha part B


Howdy folks, NitroDubbz here. I'm back today with more of the life of Buddha. So without further ado, let's begin!

Suddhodhana doesn't want Siddhartha to leave. So he builds him huge, lavish palaces and forbids him from leaving them. Siddhartha is just chilling and laying around enjoying life pretty much. Then his wife, Gopa, bears him a son.

Then someone comes to the temple talking about how beauty has begun to return to the forest after winter has ended. Siddhartha is drawn to the forest and Suddhodhana reluctantly allows him to leave. Suddhodhana orders the streets cleared of beggars, elderly, and the infirm, to prevent Siddhartha from seeing the bad parts of life. But the Gods want Siddhartha to experience all of life, so they put an old man in the middle of the road for him to see.

Siddhartha is also introduced to sickness and death.

He gets to his destination where a bunch of maidens are waiting to seduce him, but he just mopes around and ignores them because he's saddened by the knowledge of death and sickness and aging,
The Gods send down the illusion of a monk in order to entice Siddhartha with the idea of becoming a monk. Siddhartha likes the idea and decides to become a monk. He tells his dad he is going to become a monk and Suddhodhana tries to stop him in vain. Siddhartha has his charioteer drive him out secretly in the middle of the night and becomes a hermit.

Gopa and Suddhodhana are very sad.

Well, that's all for today folks. Until next time, I'm NitroDubbz.

http://sacred-texts.com/bud/lob/lob10.htm

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