t successful in finding answers because he was looking in the wrong places. Siddhartha was almost about to give up when he decide to meditate under a tree for as long as it would take for him to become enlightened. He spent forty-nine days and forty-nine nights meditating, on the fiftieth day he awoke enlightened. He was now known as Buddha the enlightened one. This was the beginning of a new religion. He wanted to share his insight with everyone. The monks that abandoned him back in his ascetic period rejoined him. Buddha died when he was more than eighty years old, of food poisoning. ...
