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What did the Buddha actually find that made him leave his wealth and family?
We all respect Gautama the Buddha for his insights into the life and how those insights help us in our own lives, but do we actually take Buddha seriously, or we just respect him intellectually?
If we take him actually seriously, then we must be interested in finding out what did he find out, not just in how his insights are useful to us.
We all know how painful it is to be away from our family, how difficult it is to leave our wealth.
This question has haunted me for decades that what can seem so precious to me that I can leave my family and wealth for it?
Is it some physical or mental benefit?
Happiness?
A sense of peace?
A sense of recognition by the society?
Or is it something entirely different than these things?
I am not in anyway glorifying leaving family and wealth. The point is that is there anything so valuable, so precious that can compel someone to abandon his family and wealth and still be happy. Is there something actually so precious?
This question has some profound implications. When we ask that question, then we actually start looking into the Buddha's mind and hence in our minds for the truth of this question: whether such a thing exists or not?
Asking such question is the first step in making us the Buddha.
For most of us that questions don't matter. What matters is how we can benefit from the answer. Those of us will never find out whether such thing exists or not. They can just "believe" in truth's existence or non-existence, but they can never know the "actuality", the "truth" of it.
If we take him actually seriously, then we must be interested in finding out what did he find out, not just in how his insights are useful to us.
We all know how painful it is to be away from our family, how difficult it is to leave our wealth.
This question has haunted me for decades that what can seem so precious to me that I can leave my family and wealth for it?
Is it some physical or mental benefit?
Happiness?
A sense of peace?
A sense of recognition by the society?
Or is it something entirely different than these things?
I am not in anyway glorifying leaving family and wealth. The point is that is there anything so valuable, so precious that can compel someone to abandon his family and wealth and still be happy. Is there something actually so precious?
This question has some profound implications. When we ask that question, then we actually start looking into the Buddha's mind and hence in our minds for the truth of this question: whether such a thing exists or not?
Asking such question is the first step in making us the Buddha.
For most of us that questions don't matter. What matters is how we can benefit from the answer. Those of us will never find out whether such thing exists or not. They can just "believe" in truth's existence or non-existence, but they can never know the "actuality", the "truth" of it.
