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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teena@" data-source="post: 7429691" data-attributes="member: 266388"><img src="http://www.beyondthenet.net/buddha/gallery/Plate4a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                      [SIZE=-1]4. The Great going forth.      On the day of the Esala full-moon (July) the Crown Prince receives  the news brought from       the palace, of the birth of a son to his wife, the beautiful  Princess Yasodhara. Alarmed       at this fresh development, this new fetter to bind him closer to the  world, the Prince       decides to leave the palace that very night. For the sake of his  father, his queen, his       son, for the sake of all mankind, he would leave the world to seek a  way to save the world       from all suffering. This is the Great Renunciation. [/SIZE]<img src="http://www.beyondthenet.net/buddha/gallery/Plate5a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                      [SIZE=-1]5. Experiment with Asceticism.      For six long years the ascetic Gotama, as Prince Siddhattha was now  known, wanders along       the highways and byways of India. He goes to Alara Kalama and Uddaka  Ramaputta two of its       greatest religious teachers, who teach him everything from their  store of knowledge and       wisdom. But the ascetic Gotama is not satisfied, for their teachings  do not lead to the       cessation of suffering. With unrelenting energy he undergoes  rigorous ascetic discipline,       both bodily and mental, seeking a way to the cessation of suffering  through further       suffering. In the end he becomes lean and emanciated and a mere  skeleton. [/SIZE]<img src="http://www.beyondthenet.net/buddha/gallery/Plate6a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                      [SIZE=-1]6. Enlightenment.      Discarding both extremes of luxurious living and self mortification,  the Bodhisatta Prince       chooses the Middle Path of moderation based on the practice of  virtue (sila),       concentration of the mind (samadhi), and the intensive analysis of  all psycho-physical       phenomena that finally leads to full understanding of things as they  really are (panna).       Seated under the Bodhi-tree at Buddhagaya he attains Samma Smabodhi  and becomes the       Supreme [/SIZE]</blockquote>

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