Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
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He walked away from a royal household, sat under a tree until he grasped the mechanics of suffering, and spent forty-five years teaching a path out of it. What he called the Middle Way—between indulgence and self-torment—became the foundation of Buddhism, now practiced across Asia and beyond.
Siddhartha Gautama was born in Lumbini to the Shakya clan in the 6th or 5th century BCE. He renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic, practicing mendicancy and meditation until he attained nirvana at Bodh Gaya. Afterward he moved through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order. His core doctrine—the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path—described a training of mind and conduct meant to lead from ignorance and craving to freedom. His followers compiled his teachings into the Vinaya and Sūtra Piṭakas, preserved through oral tradition in Middle…
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There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that].
The tongue is like a sharp knife, it kills without drawing blood; words in the hands of someone skilled can do more damage than a weapon in the hands of a warrior.
Well, Lord, is the soul the same as the body, is the soul one thing and the body another?
Rahula, develop meditation that is like water. ...
(...) Just this : right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
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