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Siddhartha's Life

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Throughout parts the whole story, Siddhartha’s life is a reflection of the main concepts of the Four Noble Truths. During Siddhartha’s early stages of life, it is not hard to tell that his life is full of suffering, pain, and dissatisfaction. His suffering is shown in the opening sentences through imagery that because Siddhartha has a perfect, he is life, rich, smart, and liked but, “Shadows passed across his eyes in the mango grove during play, while his mother sang, during his father’s teachings, when with learned men”(Hesse 1). The shadows are there to point out his unhappiness in a world where he is surrounded by all these great things like parents, wealth and friends. According to The Buddhist Centre, the second Four Noble Truth is all
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