Siddhartha's Life

Buddhism is known to be one of the world’s major religions that was founded in India during 500 B.C., by a teacher known as Budda, which was Siddhartha Gautama (Schober, 2017). Siddhartha born in a royal family that lived north of the Ganges River that who Hindus. Before Siddhartha was born, an astrologer told his father that he would have a son that would become either a powerful emperor or leave to become a very powerful religious leader (Voorst, 2013). Once Siddhartha was born, it was said that the whole earth reacted to his birth and alighted by his own power on the ground, is when Siddhartha said “he was born for salvation of the world and this was his last rebirth”(Voorst,2013). At a young age of sixteen, Siddhartha married Princess Yashodhara and they had a son. Living a very lavish and privileged life, he knew that he would be king one day, but at the age of twenty-nine, is when his Buddha’s enlightenment begun which is when he experienced the suffering of the world in the “Four Passing Sights” (Voorst, 2013). After seeing the first three sights, Siddhartha was very disturbed by what he saw and this when he renounced everything to become a holy man in order to
The second noble truth states that the root of suffering is attachment to desire. The third noble truth teaches that one can end suffering by eliminating attachment to desire. The fourth noble truth states in order to end desires, one must follow the Noble Eightfold Path (Smith, 2005). The Noble Eightfold Path which means to have the right understanding, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, as well as concentration (Smith,2005). By living by the Noble Eightfold Path, this will help followers to the path of