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PRINCE 1  \n1 One crisp spring day King Suddhodana turned in his saddle… 3  \n2 The gray rain blanketed Suddhodana and his men as the… 9  \n3 The silk curtains to Maya’s chamber parted, and  \nKumbira rushed… 17  \n4 The next morning Suddhodana rode his warhorse up  \nthe hillside… 29  \n5 It took a moment before Siddhartha had enough  \npresence of… 43  \n6 It took Devadatta most of the night to figure out… 55  \n7 You just might do. In a pinch.” 73  \n8 The day after the banquet everyone’s attention shifted to the… 97  \n9 The sky was divided between sun and clouds as the… 117  \n10 Sujata’s disappearance wasn’t discovered for several  \ndays. The first day… 129  \nPART TWO: GAUTAMA THE MONK 141  \n11 The skies had given plenty of warning all day. Clouds… 143  \n12 Gautama passed several travelers on the road who  \ncould have… 155  \n13 The moment Gautama stepped into the small clearing, he knew   169  \n14 Gautama wandered down the road, his whole being  \nchurning with… 179  \n15 One morning Ananda didn’t find Gautama in his tent.  \nSeveral… 197  \nPART THREE: BUDDHA 213  \n16 While he lay motionless on the ground, Gautama  \nbecame dimly… 215  \n17 The sun rose, and Gautama found himself sitting on the… 229  \n18 The five monks had retreated to a forest glade near… 239  \n19 Buddha didn’t spend the night in Kapilavastu but took the… 251  \nEpilogue  \nFor a storyteller, it would be ideal if Buddha’s life… 265  \nThe Art of Non-Doing  \nAfter being inspired by Buddha’s life, the most important thing… 273  \nAcknowledgments About the Author Credits  \nCover  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \nAuthor’s Note  \nijjjk  \nWhoever sees me sees the teaching.  \n—B U D D H A  \nIn writing this book, I took a deep breath and created new char  \nacters and incidents in the life of one of the most famous people who ever lived. Famous, but still very obscure. I wanted to bring Buddha out of the mists of time, to fill him out in flesh and blood while still preserving his mystery. Fact blended into fantasy centuries ago in the story of the prince who became a living god. Or is“god” the very thing he didn’t want to be? Was his deepest wish to disappear from the material world, remembered only as an inspiration of perfection?  \nThe Buddha story, as it gathered momentum for two millennia, became chock-full of miracles and gods that got stuck onto its surface. Speaking about himself, Buddha never mentioned miracles or gods. He held a doubtful view of both. He showed no interest in being revered as a personality; none of his many sermons mentions his family life or gives much personal information at all. Unlike Christ in the New Testament, he certainly didn’t see himself as divine.  \nInstead, he saw himself as “someone who is awake,” which is what the word Buddha means. That’s the person I’ve tried to capture in this book. Here in all his mystery is the principal human being who ever gained enlightenment, who spent his long life trying to wake up the rest of us. Everything he knew, he knew  \n- vi   \nfrom arduous, sometimes bitter experience. He went through extreme suffering—almost to the death—and emerged with something incredibly precious. Buddha literally became the truth.“Whoever sees me sees the teaching,” he said,“and whoever sees the teaching sees me.”  \nI wrote this book as a sacred journey, fictionalized in many of its externals but psychologically true, I hope, to what the seeker’s path feels like. In all three phases of his life—Siddhartha the prince, Gautama the monk, and Buddha the Compassionate One—he was as mortal as you and I, yet he attained enlightenment and was raised to the rank of an immortal. 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