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Siddhartha Gautama Ultimate Enlightenment Summary

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The portion of this week’s reading that I found most interesting was Siddhartha Gautama’s search for the ultimate Enlightenment. Gautama became a wandering monk and studied under spiritual teachers. These teachers taught him meditation techniques which allowed him to enter a profound state of trance. This allowed him to learn the sphere of nothingness in which the mind transcends all thought. However, Gautama quickly mastered this technique and began to learn the sphere of neither perception and non-perception in which the mediator is so deeply meditated that they no longer even think of the idea of nothingness. Gautama quickly mastered this practice as well and soon realized that he reached a point where he was more knowledgeable than his
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