RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Buddhism, Impermanence, Dukkha
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Born or existed 566-486 bce years ago. Astrologers told his father that he is going to be a warrior or a renunciant. So the king recreates reality and eliminates causes that he thinks would make his son sour. Once he is born, and grows up everything goes as planned. 29, the prince wants to go on a trip outside the city. They forget to remove an old man, which is the first thing the prince sees. He sees that youth is not permanent and asks to be taken back. He is dismayed at suffering, that someone like him can be so different. The prince ventures out again and sees someone sick. Which is predictable at the height if youth, you can be shaken by sickness. He sees that someone who is died and cremated is being transported and asks what death is and has a nervous breakdown.
