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He soon found, however, that these practices offered no genuine spiritual benefits. (WildMind, 2000) After abandoning asceticism, Siddhartha concentrated on meditation and is said to have discovered what Buddhists refer to as the “Middle Way”, which is a path of moderation between self-indulgence and self-mortification...
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In the town of Bodh Gaya, Siddhartha decided that he would sit under a certain fig tree as long as it would take for the answers to the problem of suffering to come. He is said to have begun a meditation that lasted for 49 days, at the end of which he attained “bodhi” (awakening or enlightenment)...
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