The Life of Buddha (Religion) Binogi International https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wUh3E9PSbI Transkript (automatisch erstellt) 0:00 [Music] look at that cute little prince it's Buddha though right now he's still called Siddhartha Gautama Siddhartha 0:12 lives in a palace in India his parents believe that this little guy will become something extraordinary to know this for sure they asked an astrologer to consult 0:24 the Stars about the future he will either become a very powerful ruler like his father or he becomes a holy man and your family will lose all power in the 0:38 kingdom oh my don't worry as long as you keep him away from sickness ageing poverty and death it will be alright they decide 0:48 to protect the prince from all such experiences Siddhartha grows up gets married and has kids without having met ordinary people outside the palace 1:00 but one day siddhartha drives his cart outside the palace area there he witnesses how ordinary people live he sees an old man a sick man and a beggar 1:16 monk in the street he also drives by a dead man what people get sick and are poor and die life is just suffering 1:31 Siddhartha doesn't want to suffer and he doesn't want anyone else to do so either this must be solved he leaves his wife and child and goes away 1:44 siddharta asks a lot of wise men for advice on how to live but doesn't get any good answers so he decides to try not eating he will starve himself like a 1:57 beggar monk an ascetic look how thin he has become this clearly doesn't work it won't make one happier no Siddhartha 2:11 realizes this he gives up the idea of starving himself and sits down beneath a Bodhi tree to meditate here he decides to stay until he's found the solution 2:23 nothing will make him move an evil demon called Mara appears to tempt him Mara offers him lots of great things but Siddhartha just stays put and finally 2:38 after having meditated for 49 days siddhartha realizes what's wrong humans are never satisfied they always want more and this wanting to have more 2:52 never ends and then the suffering never ends either so now Siddhartha has realized how it is he has become enlightened and that is what the word 3:04 Buddha means now he is no longer Siddhartha Gautama but Buddha Buddha wants more people to realize this some of his friends listen to him and start 3:17 to follow him they become his disciples Buddha preaches to them and to other people at this time in India everyone is Hindu the Hindus believe in rebirth 3:30 reincarnation you are born live die are born live die and so on in an endless cycle samsara stop I want to get off Buddha preaches the importance of 3:47 getting free from samsara getting reborn makes it impossible to avoid suffering buddha had tried both being rich and starving these are too exaggerated ways 4:00 of living and neither are good he believes it to be better to choose a middle way but hey Buddha if you are not born again where do you end up after day 4:15 earth you don't get to a place but to a condition where you don't want anything nirvana why do you call it Nirvana Nirvana means blown out all your 4:30 desires are blown out and you have reached a kind of peace Buddha wanders around preaching how to reach nirvana when Buddha dies there have become many 4:43 disciples now it's time for them to pass on his teachings you 5:02 you