Siddhartha Leaves
- Siddhartha leaves with the horse
- The Gods made Chandaka disobey the king's orders and gave Siddhartha the horse
- The Gods are really adamant about making Siddhartha leave
- He took his dad's horse? Is this like rebellious teenage stage? jk
- Siddhartha vows to never return to the city of Kapila
Siddhartha the Hermit
- Kanthaka the horse carried him and he spoke to him like a person
- I think that's good because we're all animals as well, why are other animals beneath us?
- Siddhartha's reason for leaving was to destroy old age and death and to be rid of unhappiness due to his desire to learn more about old age/death/suffering
- He had a son? And he left? I kind of question that..
- He exchanged clothes with a hunter for something more plain.
Gopa and Suddhodana Grieve
- Gopa wakes in the middle of the night to find her husband gone and blames the maids for letting him go
- Everyone that Siddhartha left behind mourned his departure
- Mahaprajapati left the castle
- Kanthaka died due to sadness or was he exhausted? I'm not too sure.
Arata Kalama
- Siddhartha went into the hermitage of Arata Kalama
- Taught the doctrine of renunciation
- His knowledge became as great as Kalama's and soon he began teaching the disciples
- He then realized that the doctrine was not right and left the hermitage to go to the city of Rajagriha
Siddhartha and King Vimbasara
- His beauty was noted by the people of Rajagriha
- He lived on a mountain and the king told him to come to his palace but he refused
- He doesn't care about desire, he just wanted to seek the true law
- He sought out Rudraka, one of the famous hermits in the city, but found out that Rudraka didn't know about the "true law" so left
- Five of Rudraka's disciples left with him
Siddhartha Deserted by His First Disciples
- He was meditating one day and then fell over, not breathing
- Maya lived amongst the gods, and after she heard their worries, she descended to see him
- It turns out he did not die and that it was almost time that he was to attain supreme knowledge
- He remained at the same spot for 6 years, meditating
- He found out that starving himself wasn't the right way of going about things and eventually ate
- His disciples saw that and left him because they thought he was a fool and mad
The Tree of Knowledge
- He took a shroud from a dead body
- whut.
- He went to the tree of knowledge and meditated since that very day was the day he was ready to become a Buddha
Mara's Defeat
- Mara is the demon that tempts the Buddha
Siddhartha Becomes the Buddha
- He learns that to suppress desire, we can suppress birth, which suppress death and old age
- We must lead a life of holiness, where desire is stifled in order to stop being reborn and to end our own suffering
Art of the Buddha by Minh Nguyen, June 2015. Source: Pinterest.
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