Siddharta Gautama abandoned his family at the age of twenty-nine to search for a way to bring to an end suffering in the world. He studied meditation with many teachers. At the age of thirty-five, Siddharta Gautama sat down beneath the shade of a tree to meditate, and stayed under it until he received enlightenment seven weeks later. He received the Great Enlightenment: the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path. From this day on he was known as the Buddha. In “The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching”, Thich Nhat Hanh provided a quote from the Buddha: “I teach only suffering and the transformation of suffering.” When we acknowledge our own suffering, the Buddha, the Buddha within us, will look at it, learn what has caused it, and advise a com
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