Reading Notes: Life of Buddha-Part B

Siddhartha becomes a hermit, his family and those he loved did not know where he had gone and they mourned him. Once his family realized he had escaped they panicked, not knowing what had become of him. Siddhartha entered a hermitage with the great Arata Kalama taught a great number of disciples. He pondered the teachings, but realized that it would not bring him deliverance, so he set out in a search for another location to learn.

Everyone saw him as a god, a marvelous being begging through the streets of the city. The king tried to give the hermit that all were claiming to be a god riches, but he insisted he had given up a life of riches to be peaceful. He offered half of his kingdom, but Siddhartha refused.

Maya lived among the gods and thought her son was dead when she saw him in meditative state. She wept for his life, sad that it had ended. He told his mother to not worry for he was not going to die, he was to survive the ruin. He meditated for six years, and yet true knowledge did not come to him. He would not reach the goal he had set for himself and so he decided to eat. He finally regained strength and beauty from the village feeding him. He was not able to achieve enlightenment from this, he did not know what he could then do to find peace.

He then went to the tree of knowledge to see if that would help him on his expedition. Mara, The Evil One was seeking to disturb his meditation. He summoned the rains, threw rocks and tried his hardest, but Siddhartha could not be touched. Siddhartha saw all his births, he knew all. He became the Buddha.

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