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Buddha
BUDDHA
843 BC. AD - 563 BC

Gautama Buddha (whose real name is Prince Siddhartha) is the Buddhist religion, one of the great world religions, and he is the son of a king who ruled a city in northern India near the borders of Nepal. He married his cousin when he was sixteen, and his wife was the same age. He raised Prince Siddhartha in a palace full of luxury, but he was not satisfied with his luxurious situation because he noticed that most of the people were poor people who suffered the bitterness of life and destitution, and he noticed that happiness was not It is also the share of the rich, as failure surrounded them, and he noticed that the disease must be. Then do not surrender humbly to death. Siddhartha thought that there would be something in life other than the fleeting pleasures that were quickly erased by pain and death.

When he reached the age of twenty-nine, and upon the birth of his first son, Gautama decided to renounce the life he was living and dedicate himself with all his heart to the search for the truth. Then he stopped studying with some righteous men in the city, but he found after a while that their teachings and their solutions to the problems of human conditions were unsatisfactory solutions. The prevailing belief at that time was that asceticism and austerity were the only way to true wisdom.

So Gautama tried to. He becomes an ascetic and occupies himself for several years with severe fasting and mortifying the body by curbing lusts or by self-torture. But he realized, therefore, that torturing the body is nothing but killing and weakening the mind without bringing it closer, even actively, to truth and wisdom, and therefore he returned to normal eating and rejected asceticism and austerity.

And while he was in his loneliness trying to influence the human existence. He was sitting under a sprawling fig tree, so his insight penetrated into the depths of the baffling mystery. He spent the whole night in deep contemplation, and when dawn broke, he knew that he had found the solution and that he had now become a “Buddha” (meaning the enlightened man).

The Buddha's teachings can be summed up in what Buddhists call truths
He is the four noble ones) and it is first: that human life is a life devoid of happiness. actually . Second: The reason for this lack of happiness. Human selfishness and lusts. Third: This selfishness and lusts can be invalidated when you get rid of lusts and unbridled desires, and they call this state nirvanat (i.e. explosion). Fourth: The way to get rid of selfishness and desires is what is called (the eight-way path), and these eight branches are: correct vision, correct thinking, correct speech, correct action, correct livelihood, correct effort, correct awareness and correct meditation.

We can add that Buddhism is open to all and that it is the opposite of Hinduism that does not recognize any racial or class discrimination.