sm they believe the focus is on him. The believers may not know what the significance of his life is, but they do know that he is of great importance.
             Siddhartha was born in about 563 B.C.E. He was a warrior in India. Siddhartha was raised in luxury to protect him from the bad parts of life. His father did this in hopes to raise religious questions in his mind. Guatama felt empty inside, so he decided to venture out into an unknown area. This is where he saw the "four passing sights." "The first was a sorrowful, old man. The second was a man racked by illness. The third was a man being carried on a funeral pyre." This was the first time that he had seen that life is not just pleasure and joy. But it does include bad things, such as misery, despair, and death. He then came to realize that this too would happen to him. He became almost depressed until one day he saw the fourth sight. "His fourth sight was a mink calmly walking alone in a yellow robe."(Encyc. Brit.) He was now determined to find out a better way to live. He wanted to finds a way to get out of the inevitable suffering. This was the beginning of a six-year quest. Through this quest, he established an order of nuns and monks. He was enlightened, said to have "woken up". His title was now Buddha. His middle way of th
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