Reading Notes: The Life of Buddha, Part B

Continue to part A, part B of The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold tells about the process when Prince Siddhartha left his home to become a monk and finally became Buddha.

Buddha Status. Picture from Indiamart

Prince Siddhartha and his horse Kanthaka with his guards left the capital and entered deep into the forest. Right here, Siddhartha made careful recommendation to the guard about his reason to leave and gave him the necklace for proof. Prince Siddhartha then exchanged his gorgeous cloths with the hunter and continued to find his belief of "true law" (Siddhartha the Hermit)

He lived and learned the doctrine of Arata Karama for a long time. But then he realized that it is not his "true law" that he had been looking for. This law of Arara Karama required people to live a suffering life. They supposed to get hungry, thirsty, suffered from cold and hot. He left the law since he understood that to persecute himself is not a deliverance.

Time passed, and that day Siddhartha enlightened himself. He sweared that unless he had attained the supreme knowledge to deliverance, he shall not move for any reason. And he crossed his legs and meditated under the Tree of Knowledge.