Buddhism: Young Siddhartha Guatama Leaving The Palace

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Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama was a Buddhist prince who escaped from a life of luxury to become a religious monk. Siddhartha dealt with the worries of the human suffering through experiencing the four sights. The four sights are the traditional things that Siddhartha Buddha experienced in his life. These sights made him realize the ultimate insufficiency and impermanence that existed in life. Before these encounters, Siddhartha Gautama was restrained in the palace by his father because he feared that Siddhartha would become abstinent if he experienced the life sufferings. However, after being brought up in a luxurious life, Siddhartha walked out of the palace at the age of 29 (Sasson, 2013). Accordingly, this understudy will focus on the four sights that Siddhartha Gautama experienced after leaving the palace. Also, it will reflect the significance of each of the four sights, how these sights caused him to seek religious answers and explain whether this reflection is meaningful for spiritual growth.
The Four Sights
For the first time after Siddhartha set off from his palace, he visited the city in a chariot. On his journey, Siddhartha came across an old man who was so weak and was not even able to walk properly. This man seemed helpless due to his age. Siddhartha got down from the chariot and tried to assist the old man to get into a sheltered place. In the second sight, Siddhartha came across a sick person who was severely beaten by a disease. He was very shocked and wondered how people enjoyed life with this kind of conditions. Siddhartha wanted to help the sick man, but he realized that he could only offer a little help to get rid of his pain and suffering. Siddhartha felt sad, and by the use of his ‘mettha,' he tried to relieve this man's pain (NhaМ‚МЃt & Neumann, 2012). He also comforted the sick man who made him feel okay.
The third sight that Siddhartha Gautama encountered was of a dead man whose body was carried on a stretcher by his relatives to the funeral ground (Ennenbach, 2014). The dead man had become aged and was unable to take care of himself; therefore, he was attacked by a disease and died. This situation set a high impact to Siddhartha. After seeing the dead man, Siddhartha realized that other people encounter the same condition in Shakyans kingdom. He felt very traumatized and wondered how he could rule if his people continued suffering in old age, get sick and also die helplessly. Siddhartha believed in God, and thus he did not agree to take suffering as a man's inheritance.
These three sights troubled Siddhartha due to the realization of suffering. He, however, came across the fourth sight of an ascetic who was enthusiastic to find the primary cause of the human pain. The ascetic calm countenance and quiet personality were very impressive. Siddhartha thought that this was a way of seeing the truth, realize the cause of suffering and also bring peace. This sight gave Siddhartha hope that he can as well unconstrain from the pains and he decided to follow the ascetic's model. He then decided to leave the palace with all the wealth and devoted himself to become an ascetic striving to discover the truth about the causes of hu...