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Even through his father had done all he could to, when Siddhartha saw the four forbidden sights: a sick man, a poor man, a beggar, and a dead man, he was filled with sorrow for what was happening to mankind and began his destiny.
At the age of twenty-nine years old he left his wife and family to lead an ascetic life. So harsh was his way of life that he grew so thin that he could feel his hands placing one on the lower of his back and one on his stomach. He was in a state of self-denial that he could change the ways of man. While concentrating once he came across a teacher speaking of music and the instruments that he used. The teacher has told him that is a string is tied to tight the music will not play harmoniously, and if the string is to loose, there will be no music. Only the middle way, not to tight, not to loose is what will work for the instrument to play the way it was meant. .
This conversation changed his life overnight. He concluded that it is not to live a completely worldly life, nor to live a life in complete denial of the physical body, but to be in the "MIDDLE WAY". The conclusion lead to this thought. The way out of suffering was through concentration, and since the mind was connected to the body, denying the body would hamper concentration, as would overindulgence, it would distract from concentration. .
With his new insight Siddhartha began a program of intense yogic meditation underneath a papal tree in Benares. When he completed his program Siddhartha came to understand all his previous lives and the entirely of the cycle of birth and rebirth (samsara) and most importantly figuring out how to end the cycle of infinite sorrow. It was at this point that Siddhartha became the Buddha or the "Awakened One." .
A few years later he reappears with a number of followers, he and his followers devote their lives to the "Middle Way." This lifestyle is midway between a completely ascetic life and one that is world devoted.
