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6 1. THE BUDDHA — FROM BIRTH TO RENUNCIATION another, and white in another. I used no sandal-wood that was not of Kási.^14 My tu ...

RENUNCIATION 7 inexorable nature of life, and the universal ailment of humanity. The fourth signified the means to overcome the ...

8 1. THE BUDDHA — FROM BIRTH TO RENUNCIATION prince in the full bloom of youth and in the plenitude of wealth and prosperity—a r ...

SEARCH 9 these virtues. How now if I strive to realise that doctrine whereof Álára Káláma says that he himself has realised and ...

10 1. THE BUDDHA — FROM BIRTH TO RENUNCIATION On this occasion he approached one Uddaka Rámaputta and expressed his desire to le ...

SákyasJayasena Sihahanu + (Kaccáná) Yasodhará + (Añjana) Suddhodana Dhotodana Sakkodana Sukkhodana Amitodana Amitá Pamitá + Supp ...

KoliyasDevadaha Añjana + Yasodhará Kaccáná + Sihahanu Pajápatì Gotamì* Dandapáni Mahá Máya* Suppabuddha + Pamitá Ráhula Nanda Su ...

13 CHAPTER 2 2 HIS STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT. Easy to do are things that are bad  and not beneficial to self, But very, very ...

14 2. HIS STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT How strenuously he struggled, the various methods he employed, and how he eventually succee ...

ABSTINENCE FROM FOOD 15 Then I thought to myself: ‘How if I were to cultivate that non- breathing ecstasy again!’ Accordingly, I ...

16 2. HIS STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT Then the following thought occurred to me: ‘How if I take food little by little, a small qu ...

TEMPTATION OF MÁRA 17 muscles shrivelled up, his eyes were sunk and blurred. To all appearance he was a living skeleton. He was ...

18 2. HIS STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT This, Namuci, is your army, the opposing host of the Evil One. That army the coward does no ...

DAWN OF TRUTH 19 saying that “the Ascetic Gotama had become luxurious, had ceased from striving, and had returned to a life of c ...

20 2. HIS STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT their deeds. He knew that these good individuals, by evil deeds, words, and thoughts, by re ...

21 CHAPTER 3 BUDDHAHOOD The Tathágatas are only teachers. — Dhp 276 A fter a stupendous struggle of six strenuous years, in his ...

22 3. HIS STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT In a particular era there arises only one Sammá Sambuddha. Just as certain plants and trees ...

WHO IS THE BUDDHA? 23 Who is the Buddha? Once a certain brahmin named Dona, noticing the characteristic marks of the footprint o ...

24 3. HIS STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT importance of self-reliance and individual striving, the Buddha plainly states: “You yourse ...

THE BUDDHA’S GREATNESS 25 his own efforts. He thus raised the worth of man. He taught that man can gain his deliverance from the ...