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time, however, Siddartha steps outside the walls and meets despair, poverty, and death (past, present and, future), and casts aside all earthly pleasures and sets off to find himself. During his travels into enlightenment, he renounced everything and often starved himself to understand the power of denial. This path made him physically ill, so he set himself under a bodhi tree and resolved he would not get up until he found enlightenment. At last, he achieved this enlightenment and saw man's destiny as being to follow the Noble Eig

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