Good Critical Thinking On Siddhartha

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The story of Buddha’s life prior to his day as an aesthetic, he was known as Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was a prince and come from a lavish life of riches and luxuries. His father had guarded him from the sad realities of life outside the walls of the kingdom he was born unto. Hardship was not an aspect of life for Siddhartha in his early years. This life actually was beneficial for him in his pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. He had known what life full of material wealth and ‘happiness’ looked like. There was no wonderment in his psyche about desiring the materialistic things of the world.
Considering he had come from royalty, abundance in the form of food, clothing, jewelry, and as much as most individuals could dream of made him aware of the emptiness of the tangible side of reality. The realization of life having a grander purpose was easier for him to embrace having been on the side that most humans wish to be. Many people believe that happiness and freedom are primarily based in ‘having it all’ but the ones who do know that is not the case. Individuals who have always struggled and experienced poverty could be left with a lingering desire of achieving those things in life, but having experienced the opulent life removed that from his space. Siddhartha was an individual who came to know that a deeper search within is the most important purpose in the soul’s journey. There was no missing sense of wonderment about the shallow side of Siddhartha’s nature, which fully freed him from that attachment and able to commitment to the life he chose.