Does the Buddhas life and teachings have any relevance to modern living?
His life and teachings do have relevance to modern day living, indeed they are very beneficial to modern daily life. As a young man the future Buddha was not content to live blindly in the world. He wanted to know the truth of life. He wanted answers to such questions as: why we are born, why we get old, why we suffer, why we die. He wanted to search the truth in order to help others have less suffering and to help people live in peace and harmony together. At the age of 26 he renounced the luxuries of home life and devoted himself solely to the pursuit of the truth. Six years later he became fully enlightened, a Buddha. He had come to know the true nature of the physical phenomena and mental phenomena as well as discovering their cause and conditions. He had discovered the path to enlightenment and for the next 45 years he taught others this path in order for them (and you and I) to realize this same truth. The Buddha’s Teachings can help us to understand our daily life in a way which
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