/lit/ - Literature

>>5204101
>Then one day, whilst sitting in meditation under a tree, he got "enlightened" and declared that existence is suffering, due to desire, and the only way to "free one's self", is to become completely detached from the world.
> This was a man who never had a job, or did a day's work, in his entire life; he was a worthless drifter and free-loader. Of what value is Buddhism, to man or beast?


You know litteraly nothing, nothing, about Gautama . Especially when you think he was simply born into wealth etc, he was a prince and his father would not let him outside to preserve his safty and well being.

He also never had a wife nor a child, he never even married. He didnt beg unless for alms and he sat under a tree because he was lost in his journey with the sanghas point of enlightenment which was Hindu. It was when he sat there for a long time and eventually dossed of into a non-dualist state that he achived a similar state of moksha in Hinduism.

And his second name wasnt Buddha but Siddartha, Buddha is Sanskrit for 'Enlightened/enlightened one'.

>>4955956
Early Buddist Discourses by Holder