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Life of the Buddha (Early life (Born around 500 BCE (Prophecy made at…

- - - - Lived a sheltered life
        
        Married
        
        Son was born
        
        Saw the 4 sights
        
        Decided to seek an answer to suffering
        
        Spent a night watching his family before leaving
        
        Not uncommon for the time
        
        A noble aim - compassionate - for all beings
        
        Old age, illness, death, a holy man
        
        Understood that he would experience them, as would his loved ones
        
        Rahula
        
        Means 'fetters'
        
        Shows that he was a tie to his current life
        
        At 29
        
        To Yasodhara
        
        The spouse of many of his previous lives
        
        At 16
      - Wanted for nothing
        
        e.g. had a permanent sunshade
      - Also saw suffering of peasants and a swan that was shot
      - Ended up accidentally meditating one time under a tree
    - - Only a ruler if he never experienced suffering
  - - - Now a site of pilgrimage
  - - - Holy class (brahmin) is higher
        
        White collar equivalents, working class (peasants) and outcasts are lower (in order)
    - - Named Siddartha - 'he whose purpose is accomplished'
  - - - A white elephant gave her a lotus and entered her side
      - She died a week after the birth
- - - - Went to teach the 5 ascetics
        
        Went round teaching people for 45 years
        
        Ate some rotten sweetpig
        
        Got food poisoning and died
        
        Went to nirvana
        
        Ashes put in 84 important places
        
        Gave a final sermon
        
        Could have lived longer if his companion asked
        
        1000 years
        
        Assured the cook that it was ok
        
        Also returned to his family
        
        Rahula became a monk
        
        Step mother Mahapajapati became a nun and an Arhat
        
        Two important followers
        
        Sariputta
        
        Good teacher
        
        Mogallana
        
        Psychic powers
        
        Had psychic powers, but didn't use them much
        
        They encourage attachment to the world
        
        Most followers were brahmin, then vaishya
        
        Spoke to all as individuals, not by caste
        
        Encouraged questioning
        
        Ehipassiko - try and see
      - First they shunned him
        
        Then they realised he was enlightened
      - Explained his revelations and one became enlightened
        
        Explained again and the rest did
- - - - First by saying he should build up good karma
        
        Then huge army
        
        Then vicious creatures
        
        Then sent his daughters
        
        Then challenged him for the place of the Buddha
        
        Mara defeated
        
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        He had an army to testify to his good karma
        
        Siddartha had no-one
        
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        3 or 5
        
        Represent sins
        
        Disguised as village girls
        
        Turned into a few hundred maidens each
        
        Cause mens tastes are diverse
        
        Shot arrows - turned to petals when they got close
        
        Represented sins - defeated by Siddartha's paramis - perfections
    - - The embodiment of attachment to life
      - Outside the wheel of samsara
        
        The cause of it
- - - - Went to extreme
        
        Decided this would only lead to death
        
        Decided to pursue the Middle Way
        
        Went to find a teacher
        
        First teacher - Alara Kalama
        
        Second teacher - Uddaka Ramaputta
        
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        Also quickly surpassed him
        
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        Master of the 'sphere of perception and non-perception'
        
        Master of the 'sphere of nothingness'
        
        Quickly surpassed him
        
        Was offered a leading role in the community
        
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        Accepted milk rice from a village girl and washed
        
        Other ascetics saw and felt betrayed
        
        Because of the musician string proverb
        
        Too tight - snaps
        
        Too slack - won't play
      - 1 grain of rice per day, rainwater, not moving, not washing
      - To develop mind over body - body is sinful, purify mind