The father a king spared no expense shielding the prince from contact with sickness, decrepitude and death. ... All human beings regardless of being rich, poor, smart of dumb will experience the following: Trauma of birth, pathology of sickness, morbidity of decrepitude, phobia of death, being tied to what one dislikes and sixth is being separated from what one loves. ... They can ascend upwards from real life to the spiritual peak of Nirvana. ...

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Siddhartha saw for the first time the poverty, sickness, and misery that others had to face, visions that had eluded him for so long. ... Life as we know it always has its share of disagreeable experiences -- sickness, physical pain, and distress are obvious examples. ... While no one can entirely avoid sickness and physical pain, the Buddha taught that our mental suffering has its roots in a person's deep-seated tendency to want things to be different than they are. ... The Buddha described the way to happiness as a path with eight component parts, which he called the Noble Eightfold ...

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With physical sufferings, birth and old age can cause pain within the body and sickness and death are both inevitable. ... As a religion, Buddhism does not have a set hierarchical structure in the material world, but there is one in the spiritual world. ... Within the spiritual world there is a hierarchical structure of three spiritual beings. ...

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