What caused Buddha to leave his home?
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Cognitive dissonance. He couldn’t reconcile his wealth and comfort with the misery and suffering he saw outside his gated-community bubble.
He set about trying to find the ‘truth’ by performing penances and austerities, as this was the conventional wisdom at the time.
Being quite strong-willed, he pushed his body pretty close to the point of death without finding what he was seeking.
His realization was that he had actually always had everything he had been searching for when he remembered a moment of peace and clarity sitting as a child in his father’s garden.
He set about trying to find the ‘truth’ by performing penances and austerities, as this was the conventional wisdom at the time.
Being quite strong-willed, he pushed his body pretty close to the point of death without finding what he was seeking.
His realization was that he had actually always had everything he had been searching for when he remembered a moment of peace and clarity sitting as a child in his father’s garden.
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he left his home to find the end of suffering
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