So when the Buddha was born, the sages told his father, King Śuddodhana, that his son was going to be a great sage or a great king. Of course the king wanted his son, Siddhartha, to follow in his footsteps, and rightly knowing that the way to wisdom was through the experience of the world exactly as it is, he kept his son locked in the palace and meanwh…
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