There, he cut his long hair with his sword and exchanged his fine clothes for the simple robes of an ascetic. With these actions Siddhartha Gautama joined a whole class of men who had dropped out of Indian society to find liberation. There were a variety of methods and teachers , and Gautama investigated many—atheists, materialists, idealists, and dialecticians. The deep forest and the teeming marketplace were alive with the sounds of thousands of arguments and opinions, unlike in our time.
Gautama finally settled down to work with two teachers. From Arada Kalama, who had three hundred disciples, he learned how to discipline his mind to enter the sphere of nothingness. But even though Arada Kalama asked him to remain and teach as an equal, he recognized that this was not liberation, and left. Next Siddhartha learned how to enter the concentration of mind which is neither consciousness nor unconsciousness from Udraka Ramaputra. But neither was this liberation and Siddhartha left his second teacher.
For six years Siddhartha along with five companions practiced austerities and concentration. He drove himself mercilessly, eating only a single grain of rice a day, pitting mind against body. His ribs stuck through his wasted flesh and he seemed more dead than alive. His five companions left him after he made the decision to take more substantial food and to abandon asceticism. Then, Siddhartha entered a village in search of food.
There, a woman named Sujata offered him a dish of milk and a separate vessel of honey. His strength returned, Siddhartha washed himself in the Nairanjana River, and then set off to the Bodhi tree. He spread a mat of kusha grass underneath, crossed his legs and sat. He sat, having listened to all the teachers, studied all the sacred texts and tried all the methods. Related subjects: Religious figures and leaders.
This reference article is mainly selected from the English Wikipedia with only minor checks and changes see www. See also our Disclaimer. To them and others who had gathered, he preached his first sermon henceforth known as Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dharma , in which he explained the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, which became the pillars of Buddhism.
The ascetics then became his first disciples and formed the foundation of the Sangha, or community of monks. Women were admitted to the Sangha, and all barriers of class, race, sex and previous background were ignored, with only the desire to reach enlightenment through the banishment of suffering and spiritual emptiness considered.
For the remainder of his years, Buddha traveled, preaching the Dharma the name given to his teachings in an effort to lead others along the path of enlightenment. Buddha died around the age of 80, possibly of an illness from eating spoiled meat or other food.
When he died, it is said that he told his disciples that they should follow no leader, but to "be your own light. The Buddha is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in world history, and his teachings have affected everything from a variety of other faiths as many find their origins in the words of the Buddha to literature to philosophy, both within India and to the farthest reaches of the world.
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