Send Me To Sleep | Buddhism (Voice Only)
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What is the purpose of Send Me To Sleep and today’s Buddhist topic?
Hello, it's your host Andrew here. If you're enjoying Send Me To Sleep so far and you'd like to help support the show, the best way to do that is Send Me To Sleep Premium. Over there you'll get ad-free episodes as well as access to all of our bonus episodes. You can find a link to a seven-day free trial in the description notes. Thanks so much for listening and here's just a few ads before the show begins. One of the things I love most about the story of Siddhartha Gautama and the subsequent teachings of that story is the simplicity of its message, I suppose. Although being able to practice the learnings of that message is, of course, as always, easier said than done. If you're not familiar with the story of Siddhartha Gautama, or even you may not actually know who Siddhartha Gautama is, and that is the real name of the person who is commonly referred to as the Buddha,
And it's been a little while since I really learned about this story and refreshed my memory. And in a way, maybe that will be quite helpful because I will be able to give you more of a concise, kind of simplified version of the events that will hopefully be a little easier, less convoluted to understand. But essentially, Siddhartha Gautama, as the story goes, he was a prince, a very wealthy prince at that. And from birth, he lived a life of opulence within the walls of the palace where he lived. And he had his every need provided for. And as such, he lived a life where he didn't really want for much or anything that he wanted for was fairly immediately taken care of, I suppose. A great life of grand opulence, you could say.
Until one day he decided that he needed to leave the palace, which he had never done before in his life. and and see what was actually happening outside in the streets and uh he met several people on his journeys outside and i forget exactly who he meets um one of them was an old person And one of them was a sick person. And these were the first times that he was encountering the concepts of aging and the concepts of illness. and there were two other people but i've actually forgotten who it is who it is that he meets um well one of them was also a spiritual seeker i believe someone seeking a spiritual enlightenment for themselves but essentially Siddhartha Gautama he sees the aging and the illness and he comes to an understanding of what suffering is and he wants to avoid it as much he can he comes to realize that there is such a thing as suffering and furthermore
Who was Siddhartha Gautama and why did he leave the palace?
he wants to try and avoid it. And one of the means by which he wants to do this is to take on the spiritual path and shake off the opulence of his life in the palace and live a life of extreme temperance and fast and deprive himself of things and meditate and live a very strict spiritual life but after a while of doing this he comes to realize that it is neither an extremely opulent life or an extremely deprived life that will bring you to any kind of enlightenment. And it is what you may have heard of before, referred to as the middle way. that he lands upon this way in between extremes which if you have listened to my recent episode on Aristotle will sound a little bit familiar to you as this was very much sort of reminiscent of Aristotle's ideas around the way in which one should live
a good life. But it wasn't just in living a moral life that the Buddha was concerned. It was Siddhartha, I should say, at this point. It was the elimination of suffering. And essentially, after all of this and his conclusions about the middle way and such, The summation of his conclusions are as thus. The fact of life is that there is suffering and to a certain extent suffering is an unavoidable fact of life. We will age, we will be ill, we may well most likely succumb to illness. And this is to a certain extent unavoidable. But also he came to realize that much suffering in life has a cause and that cause is what could be roughly described as craving or clinging
or
attachment, I suppose. attachment to
people,
attachment to ideas, craving for substance, for excess, wanting to satiate something within you that is perhaps pernicious.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of Send Me To Sleep and today’s Buddhist topic?
0:00–4:04
2
Who was Siddhartha Gautama and why did he leave the palace?
4:04–8:39
3
What is the Middle Way and how does it differ from extreme lifestyles?
8:39–12:52
4
What is the Buddhist Eightfold Path and why is it important?
12:52–17:40
5
How does Right View shape our understanding of suffering?
17:40–22:27
6
What does Right Intention mean and how can we practice it?
22:27–27:03
7
Why is Right Speech crucial and how can it reduce personal suffering?
27:03–31:18
8
How does Right Action translate into everyday behavior and moral choices?
31:18–36:03