Siddharta+Gautama

SIDDHARTHA GUATAMA ​ - **__Basic Information__** o Current City: Kusinagara, Nepal o Hometown: Kapilavastu, Southern Nepal o Sex: Male o Birthday: 563 BCE o Political Views: Republican Buddhist, Liberal o Religious Views: Buddhism o Bio: Siddhartha Gautama was born into a life of luxury due to the wealth and power of his parents, King Suddhodana and Queen Mayadevi. Throughout his childhood, Siddhartha was raised by his aunt because of his mother's death seven days after she give birth to him. Ever since Siddhartha was a young boy, seers, or predictors of the future, predicted that Siddhartha would become a Universal Monarch or a Buddha. This prophecy proved to be true once Siddhartha broke away from his life of luxury and sought to find the meaning and cure to the suffering face by a majority of the people in the world. Siddhartha lived a life trapped within the non-suffering walls of his palace and had no knowledge of the suffering experienced by the less fortunate people. He accepted his life as a prince and married his cousin, Princess Yasodhara, at age sixteen. It was not until the night of Siddhartha’s 29th birthday when he decided that he wanted to exposed to the life outside of the walls of his palace. He made the bold move to give up his life as a prince due to his loss of enjoyment in pleasures and amenities the life of royalty granted him. When Siddhartha abandoned his court, he embarked on his search for the truth obtained through his mediation. The once opulent Siddhartha became penniless. Siddhartha was shocked and horrified after he broke away from his opulence because he had never witnessed suffering before. His quest to understand sufferings in the world occurred one day when he was meditating under a tree, the bodhi tree, and he became enlightened. Siddhartha decided to teach his first sermon based on his knowledge of how desire is the cause of suffering and people should follow the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path he constructed based on his beliefs about sufferring. Siddhartha's teachings evolved into Buddhism and he even encouraged his followers to convert to dhamma, Buddhist teachings. He also promoted equality among all people, disregarding a person's background, birth, nationality, or wealth. Siddhartha, now known as "Buddha," spent the remainder of his life spreading his teachings and even after his death at age 80, Siddhartha's followers continued to spread Buddhism. o Favorite Quotations: "All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcomings." -Helen Keller - **__Relationships__** o Mother: Queen Mayadevi o Father: King Suddhodana o Daughters: None o Sons: Rahula o Brothers: None o Sisters: None - **__Likes and Interest__** o Activities: Learned skills of a warrior, man-to-man fighting, trained in spiritual disciplines, archery o Interests: Philosophy, meditation, preaching, observing beauty of nature o Music: Classical, Country (John Mayer) o Books: __Midnight (Warriors: The New Prophecy, Book 1)__ by Erin Hunter, __How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil__ by D.A. Carson, __Surprised by Suffering__ by R.C. Sproul, o Movies: //Pocahontas//,//The Little Buddha, Enlightenment Guaranteed// o Television: 'Zen Buddhism' show, Survivor, I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here (causes people to not take life for granted) - **__Education and Work__** o High School: No attendence o College/University: No attendence o Employer: Prince in Nepal, Teacher

Album 1: Royal childhood Album 2: Early Life Album 3:Adulthood (Life as Buddha) __**10 Groups Joined:**__
 * __Photo Albums:__**
 * GROUP 1:** BuddhistWellnessGroup
 * - EXPLANATION:** Siddhartha joined the BuddhistWellnessGroup because this group focuses on the discussion of buddhism and mind wellness. In addition, members of the group are given the opportunity to share their experiences, thoughts, or opinions on the subject of Buddhism. Since Siddharta was the founder of Buddhism, he greatly supports spreading his teachings and have his followers share their experiences with Buddhism. Another major aspect of this group that is a major reason as to why Siddhartha joined is because the group believes in sharing, "a manifestation of generosity." Siddhartha believed in equality and peace in the world where people treat each other with kindness.
 * GROUP 2:** TheDailyEnlightenment
 * - EXPLANATION:** Siddhartha joined the DailyEnlightment group because it focuses on enlightening its members with Buddhist teachings. The aspect of enlightenment greatly appealed to Siddhartha because he began to teach and conduct his First Sermon due to his enlightenment on human sufferings. Siddhartha wanted to help other members to become enlightened by spreading his buddhist teachings. In addition, this group provides members with daily news posts and quotes. Siddhartha was a very philosophical man and he enjoyed the depth and meaning behind quotes.
 * GROUP 3:** Kagyu
 * - EXPLANATION:** Siddhartha joined the Kagyu group because this group focuses on promoting Buddhist education in school. Kagyu is a school that teached Tibetan Buddhism and its education system encompasses the practicing of Buddha'd teaching, meditating, and teaching the importance of Karma. Siddhartha was a strong supporter of meditation because throughout his life he always meditated to discover peace and serenity. Meditation helped him connect with his inner self and learn about the importance and life and how people need to treat others with kindness.
 * GROUP 4:** DHAMMADUTAS
 * - EXPLANATION:** Siddhartha joined the group, Dhammadutas, because this group contains all people who are dhammas, or supporters of Buddhist teachings. Siddhartha participated in this group because he served as a role model to the members. He preached and taught about his life experiences with human suffering and how it evolved to his creation of Buddhism. He never acted as the leader of the group; he attended the group members to provide guidance and enlightment to the fellow members.
 * GROUP 5:** A.W.A.R.E.-Announcements
 * - EXPLANATION:** A.W.A.R.E-Announcements ( Alliance for World Awareness of Rights and Equality) is a group that has initiated a non-profit, non-sectarian movement that is dedicated to helping the oppressed people in their struggle for liberation, freedom, and self-determination. Siddhartha joined this group because ever since his 29th birthday, he dedicated his life to finding the source of human suffering and desperately searched for a cure. He received pain when observing the oppressed, struggling people in the world and wanted to find a way to help. When Siddhartha discovered that desire was the main cause of human suffering, he joined this group to help others achieve their goal of becoming free by talking about the dangers of desire. In the end, many members of this club have benefited from Siddhartha's membership.
 * GROUP 6:** Prophetic_10
 * - EXPLANATION:** Siddhartha joined Prophetic_10 because this group focuses on creating a new world with peace, love, justice, and equality. This group is lead by intellectual leaders who try to transform the lives by providing solutions to human sufferings and various issues. The leaders give hope that a corrupted world can be revived if they all work together toward the same cause. Siddhartha found this group to be very suitable because his goal in life was to help amend the lives of the suffering. He provided a key solution to all of the members of tbe group that many issues are caused by desire and a corrupted world may be transformed if unnecessary human desires are abolished. Siddhartha aided this group in helping them to undergo the correct amendments to create a new and improved world of peace and equality.
 * GROUP 7:** Buddhism_101
 * - EXPLANATION:** Buddhism_101 was a suitable group that Siddhartha joined because the leaders of the group started off teaching the basic elements if Buddhism, but they later evelated to a higher-level thinking and comprehension of the purpose and importance of Buddhism. In this group, the members frequently went on camping trips to unite themselves with nature and find peace with the natural world. Siddhartha highly urged his followers to be able to appreciate the natural beauty of life and how camping helps people learn to not take life for granted. Siddhartha also enjoys how the members of this group are given the opportunity to occassionally tour various parts of the world to witness the many types of human sufferings.
 * GROUP 8:** Archeryandbowhunting
 * - EXPLANATION:** Siddhartha joined the group involving archery and bow hunting because in his early childhood during his years of royalty and luxury, he greatly enjoyed archery. He took archery lessons at his palace when he was a young boy; however, this activity became discontinued in his life when he abandoned his home and opulent life. Siddhartha joined this group when he was an adult to refresh his archery skills that he once loved very much. This group helped him uncover his passion for archery.
 * GROUP 9:** Gbof
 * - EXPLANATION:** Gbof is a group that mainly consists of members who are newcomers to Buddhism. Siddhartha joined this group because he enjoyed receiving new followers of his teachings and wanted to help them become accustomed to his lifestyle. As the leaders of the group would discuss the Buddhist teachings and conduct their practice of Buddhism in the community, Siddhartha enjoyed to guide the newcomers and direct them on the correct path to living a life of peace and equality. He found great pleasure in witnessing members grasp the concept of Buddhism and he really liked the one statements by a new member, "Buddhism teaches me neither what is true nor wat is false, It teaches me how to discover myself."
 * GROUP 10:** Giftoflovingkindness
 * - EXPLANATION:** Siddhartha joined the group, Gift of Loving Kindness, because this group focuses on how meditation helps one to express insights and the group also focuses on the importance to ask questions and seek solutions. This group is non-denominational, which displays that all members are welcome and one will not be discriminated due to his or her religion or beliefs. Siddhartha enjoyed and appreciated the equality this group promoted. He learned to live by their moto of "loving kindness" and he encouraged other members to be kind and generous to live a content life.

- RESULTS: 70's-** You are very hip, and you love peace signs and are carefree! - RESULTS:** **No cartoon at all - EXPLANATION:** After taking the quiz to discover which cartoon I am, I discovered that I am no cartoon at all because my characteristics and personality cannot be described by a single cartoon character. I have character traits that are very unique and I believe I am my own personal cartoon character. While taking the quiz, one question asked how my friends who describe me. I answered by selecting the option "none of the above" because all of the options combined would have described my personality. I consider myself, reserved, intelligent, caring, yet outspoken and carefree. In addition, I stated that my dream home is in a desert because I want to be able to experience all variations of human suffering in the world. Overall, there truly is no cartoon that would fit my character. - RESULTS:** **Ballroom** (You are a crisp and presise person, makeing everything you do a 10 out of 10. Try ballroom in hope that you will find and even grater level of presicenes and let you loosen up as you swak across the dancefloor YOUR way.) - RESULTS:** **Akasha** (This is the source of all natural energy. You can manipulate energy, create energy fields, blast energy bolts etc. These powers are sacred and you should use them wisely.) - RESULTS: The laid-back mellow of water** (Your mellow, easy going, and fun-loving! Your the one people come to for advice, and you'll do anything for a friend or family member!)
 * __5 Quizzes:__**
 * QUIZ 1: Which ere are you from?
 * - EXPLANATION:** The quiz asked me various questions such as my favorite color, my favorite smell, and what I like the most about myself. Due to my belief about equality, I answered and I do not have a favorite color because I like all colors in existence due to their unique qualities. To answer the question about my favorite smell, I stated that the smell of wild grass or flowers is my fvaorite because these smells deal with the beauty of nature and its purity. In addition, I stated that I enjoy my carefree personality because my frequent mediation helps me to remain composed, collected, and calm. After completing the quiz, my results display that I should be from the 70's. This era greatly reflects myself because the era of the 70's dealt with peace, serenity, and being carefree. I highly support peace and I hope to promote serenity throughout the world.
 * QUIZ 2: Which cartoon are you?
 * QUIZ 3:** **What type of dance are you?
 * - EXPLANATION:** After taking the quiz to discover what type opf dance I am, I discovered that I am ballroom dance. Ballroom dancing is the perfect dance for me because it is peaceful and graceful. I do not enoy blaring music; I enjoy classical music that allows me to have a tranquil state of mind. The description of a person who is ballroom dance states that the person is "a crisp and precise person, making everything you do a 10 out of 10." The explanation correctly descirbes me because I consider myself a precise person in the sense that I always put forth all of my effort in any task I have to accomplish.
 * QUIZ 4:** **What's your magic power?
 * - EXPLANATION:** After taking the quiz to discover what my magic power is, I discovered that I have the magic power of obtaining akasha. Akasha is the source of all natural energy; therefore, I have the ability to control and transform all forms of natural energy. I believe I should have the power of akasha because in life, all religions represent the natural energy. With my power, I can manipulate energy in a positive way and encourage more people to discover the power of Buddhism. All of my life I have been trying to give energy to people to cause them to end human suffering by ending desire. The explanation is correct in stating that having the power of akasha is sacred and I do use it wisely by spreading my Buddhist teachings to be beneficial to other people.
 * QUIZ 5: What's your inner element?
 * - EXPLANATION:** After taking the test to discover what my inner element is, I learned that I am mellow water. This correctly describes me because I am easy going and I never force anything, even my Buddhist teachings, upon anyone. I try to create and aura of love and happiness to help ease the pains of suffering in the world. In addition, the explanation to the results states that "you're the one people come to for advice." I is very true that people often approach me for advice on how to solve their issues in life and I am always willing to help.


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