Buddhism 2

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in India. When his father refused,
Siddartha stood in one place for days on end, until his
father agreed. So Siddartha left his enclosed palace
and set out on his own.
Not long after he started his venture out of
his home, Siddartha ran across four things he had never
seen before. These four things were to be called the
four signs. The four signs were; old age, sickness,
death, and true serenity. These four men were really
gods put there so Siddartha could learn what else lies
beyond the pure luxury that he knows so well.
Siddartha soon realized that the first three men stood
for the presence of suffering, and the fourth man stood
for the release of suffering. From that point on,
Siddartha knew that his mission would be to solve the
riddle of suffering and figure out a way to overcome
it. He found a Bo tree nearby and swore he would sit
beneath the tree and contemplate the reasoning behind
suffering until he could solve the riddle. There he
sat until ...

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