The Awakened One
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
A prince of the Shakya clan who left home to seek an end to suffering, and after his awakening taught the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
Key work: Dhammapada, sayings collected by his followers
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Suffering has a cause, and the cause can end.
Take the middle way between indulgence and harsh denial.
Hatred is ended by love, not by more hatred.
Read more: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
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Quest with Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha above to start the climb and open these lessons.
