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In ancient India, around 5th to 4th century BCE, a young prince was born to an aristocratic family called Gotama (Sanskrit: Gautama), who were part of the Shakyas<\/a>. He was named Siddhartha. His rich parents seemed to desire a powerful ruler for their kingdom. To achieve this, they tried to prevent Siddhartha from seeing the unsatisfactory nature of the world. They isolated him from the world and surrounded him with every kind of pleasure. He was provided with every opportunity for relationships, sports and worldly things including combat training.<\/p>\n

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Quite suddenly, at the age 29, Siddhartha decided to venture outside of his protected world, and was immediately confronted with the impermanence and suffering of reality. On a rare outing from his luxurious palace, he saw the \u00a0desperately sick, the old and dying, and finally also the dead. He was very upset and utterly surprised to realize that old age, sickness and death would come to everyone he loved. Siddhartha had no refuge to offer them. This sudden and immensely huge impact made him\u00a0realize that the perfection he had been seeking outside is unavailable outside. This led him to leave the royal life in venture of true happiness and peace. He then left his royal comfortable life and dedicated himself to the search and seeking of eternal peace and happiness.<\/p>\n

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The end result of his seeking is something we are, or may be familiar with. Siddhartha spent years exploring many different spiritual paths before he found the truth about God, Happiness and eternal peace. The rest is history. He is looked upon as the pinnacle of spiritual seeking and came to be addressed as a “Buddha”<\/a> which means the one awakened to the truth of God, Happiness and eternal Peace.<\/p>\n

The above story is an important story of circumstances, exposure to the world, our expectations and growth. Particularly growth of the being or Spiritual growth. As we grow up, we are all in a sense protected and isolated from the reality of the world, in our own delusional stories and concepts about the world. These delusions come from our upbringing, our social culture and our experiences in life. We seek happiness and God in the outside world, all our lives, and we seek it in the relationships, the objects and experiences we pursue. At some point, we realize the futile and elusive nature of this seeking. Just like Siddhartha, we realize that what we are seeking is impossible to find in the experiences, objects and our relationships in life. This is the turning point in our life. This pivot point in life leads to true spiritual seeking.<\/p>\n

Although we are not particularly focusing on a specific religion, the quest for this effort in QuietMindNow<\/a>, is to support this spiritual seeking. Jay strives to provide this support through weekly online satsangs<\/a> for advanced seekers, meditation classes, and free meditation evaluations for new seekers, in addition to a host of materials supporting the topic in his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In ancient India, around 5th to 4th century BCE, a young prince was born to an aristocratic family called Gotama (Sanskrit: Gautama), who were part of the Shakyas. He was named Siddhartha. His rich parents seemed to desire a powerful ruler for their kingdom. To achieve this, they tried to prevent Siddhartha from seeing the unsatisfactory nature of the world. They isolated him from the world and surrounded him with every kind of pleasure. He was provided with every opportunity for relationships, sports and worldly things including combat training. Quite suddenly, at the age 29, Siddhartha decided to venture outside of his protected world, and was immediately confronted with the impermanence and suffering of reality. On a rare outing from his luxurious palace, he saw the \u00a0desperately sick, the old and dying, and finally also the dead. He was very upset and utterly surprised to realize that old age, sickness and death would come to everyone he loved. Siddhartha had no refuge to offer them. This sudden and immensely huge impact made him\u00a0realize that the perfection he had been seeking outside is unavailable outside. This led him to leave the royal life in venture of true happiness and peace. He then left his royal comfortable life and dedicated himself to the search and seeking of eternal peace and happiness. The end result of his seeking is something we are, or may be familiar with. Siddhartha spent years exploring many different spiritual paths before he found the truth about God, Happiness and eternal peace. The rest is history. He is looked upon as the pinnacle of spiritual seeking and came to be addressed as a “Buddha” which means the one awakened to the truth of God, Happiness and eternal Peace. The above story is an important story of circumstances, exposure to the world, our expectations and growth. Particularly growth of the being or Spiritual growth. As we grow up, we are all in a sense protected and isolated from the reality of the world, in our own delusional stories and concepts about the world. These delusions come from our upbringing, our social culture and our experiences in life. We seek happiness and God in the outside world, all our lives, and we seek it in the relationships, the objects and experiences we pursue. At some point, we realize the futile and elusive nature of this seeking. Just like Siddhartha, we realize that what we are seeking is impossible to find in the experiences, objects and our relationships in life. This is the turning point in our life. This pivot point in life leads to true spiritual seeking. Although we are not particularly focusing on a specific religion, the quest for this effort in QuietMindNow, is to support this spiritual seeking. Jay strives to provide this support through weekly online satsangs for advanced seekers, meditation classes, and free meditation evaluations for new seekers, in addition to a host of materials supporting the topic in his blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nA Quiet Mind (backup) | Quiet Mind Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/quietmindnow.com\/index.php\/a-quiet-mind-backup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Quiet Mind (backup) | Quiet Mind Now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In ancient India, around 5th to 4th century BCE, a young prince was born to an aristocratic family called Gotama (Sanskrit: Gautama), who were part of the Shakyas. 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