Buddha Bio Continued!

During his travel of 6 years, he trained with many great teachers of his time.
- He was extraordinarily religiously gifted and reached his teachers level of advancement quickly
- dissatisfied with the path to salvation that was taught
- grew religiously through their teachings though

After training in Jainism, which focused on self-denial in order to gain liberation, he gathered a small following. During one of his times of extreme fasting he saw how futile fasting was and decided to eat when a young women offered him food and drink. His disciples saw this as weakness and abandoned him.

He then sat beneath and decided not to move from that place until he figured out the truth of himself. He sat there for week in self absorbed contemplation. After his time under the tree, he finally figured out the truth of himself and traveled to the religious festival in Benares. He found his former disciples in Deer Park and he then gave his first Sermon.
- 4 noble truths
- no eternal soul
- dependent co-origination
- impermanence

Religions Text book, Chapter Buddhism