I really like the episodes about the encounters that Buddha had with life. What really interested me about these particular episodes in this storybook is that Prince Siddhartha's father tried to shelter him from the bad things in the world. The reason the King had done this is because Prince Siddhartha has lived a sheltered life of luxury and was not aware of the evil and bad things in the world. One day he finally leaves the palace after he is an adult. When Prince Siddhartha would go on his daily ride on his chariot, the God's responded with the Prince still seeing some of the bad things in the world. One of the first was old age. Prince Siddhartha learned that he would one day grow to be old and he became depressed and did not want to continue his ride on the chariot. Upon his other sighting the King again tried to shelter the Prince when he left the palace, but the God's revealed a sick person on the second sighting and a corpse to represent death during the third sighting. After the sighting the Prince was sad about these sightings and thought about them often even when the King tried to cheer him up. Prince Siddhartha then began to think about the ways that he could help the world not suffer from all that he had seen.
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