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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ex-muslim Ahmed" data-source="post: 7250542" data-attributes="member: 179431">Two-thousand-five-hundred years ago in northern India, Prince  Siddhartha left his palace where he had spent twenty-nine years  indulging in pleasures. He was determined to comprehend the nature of  human suffering. After a grueling spiritual quest that lasted six years,  he at last attained enlightenment meditating under a fig tree. He  became the Buddha, the “awakened one,” and devoted the rest of his life  to teaching the way to enlightenment that he himself had found, giving  birth to one of the world’s great religions.   Beginning on  Wednesday, April 7, 2010, PBS brings to life Siddhartha and his journey  in THE BUDDHA, a two-hour documentary directed by award-winning  filmmaker David Grubin.“Buddhism is growing more and more popular  in America,” said David Grubin. “But the Buddha himself remains a  mysterious, exotic figure, the founder of a religion in a different key.  The Buddha never claimed to be God, or his emissary on earth. He said  only that in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering, he had found a  serenity which others could find too. In our own bewildering times of  violent change and spiritual confusion, the Buddha’s teachings have  particular relevance.”<a href="http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/program/" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/program/</a></blockquote>

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