Attachment is the root of suffering

The Buddha
The life history of Siddartha 
Gautama is obscured by the myth 
and legend that has grown up 
around him. Different traditions 
give different chronologies for his 
birth and death, but many agree 
on 563–483 
bce
. Said to have been 
born miraculously through the 
side of his mother, Siddartha was 
raised in luxury in the palace of 
his father, King Suddhodana 
Tharu, leader of the Shakya clan. 
Aged 29, Siddartha rejected 
this luxurious life and left his wife 
and child, renouncing material 
things to seek enlightenment 
through asceticism. Having spent 
six years wandering and 
meditating, he achieved 
enlightenment and became
the Buddha, but instead of 
ascending to nirvana, the 
transcendent state that is the 
goal of Buddhism, he chose
to remain and preach his new 
message, the dharma. 
Gathering followers who 
formed the Sangha, a monastic 
order, the Buddha pursued his 
ministry until he died, at age 80. 
He urged his disciples to follow 
the dharma, instructing them: 
“All individual things pass 
away. Strive on, untiringly.” 
Given that separation
is certain in this world,
is it not better to separate
oneself voluntarily for
the sake of religion?
Siddartha Gautama
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Document Outline

• 6 Contents
• 10 INTRODUCTION
• 20 At least as important as Columbus’s journey to America or the Apollo 11 expedition
• 22 Everything was so beautiful, so fresh
• 28 The foundations of today’s Europe were forged in the events of the late Ice Age
• 30 A great civilization arose on the Anatolian plain
• 32 Further events
• 36 To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land
• 38 All the lands have fallen prostrate beneath his sandals for eternity
• 40 Attachment is the root of suffering
• 42 A clue to the existence of a system of picture-writing in the Greek lands
• 44 In times of peace, sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who bury their sons
• 46 Administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few
• 52 There is nothing impossible to he who will try
• 54 If the Qin should ever get his way with the world, then the whole world will end up his prisoner
• 58 Thus perish all tyrants
• 66 By this sign conquer
• 68 The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken
• 70 Further events
• 76 Seek to enlarge the empire and make it more glorious
• 78 Truth has come and falsehood has vanished
• 82 A leader in whose shadow the Christian nation is at peace
• 84 The ruler is wealthy but the state is destroyed
• 86 A surge in spirit and an awakening in intelligence
• 94 Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain
• 96 The Roman church has never erred
• 98 A man destined to become master of the state
• 100 That men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions
• 102 The most potent man, as regards forces and lands and treasure, that exists in the world
• 104 I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed
• 106 Those who until now have been mercenaries for a few coins achieve eternal rewards
• 108 The work of giants
• 110 He left no court emir nor royal office holder without the gift of a load of gold
• 112 Give the sun the blood of enemies to drink
• 118 Scarce the tenth person of any sort was left alive
• 120 I have worked to discharge heaven’s will
• 128 Cast down the adversaries of my Christian people
• 130 I have newly devised 28 letters
• 132 Further events
• 138 As my city falls, I shall fall with it
• 142 Following the light of the sun we left the Old World
• 148 This line shall be considered as a perpetual mark and bound
• 152 The ancients never raised their buildings so high
• 156 War has become very different
• 158 As different from ours as day and night
• 160 My conscience is captive to the Word of God
• 164 He began war in Bohemia, which he subjugated and forced into his religion
• 170 Royalty is a remedy for the spirit of rebellion
• 172 They cherished a great hope and inward zeal
• 174 We will cut off his head with the crown upon it
• 176 The very being of the plantations depends upon the supply of Negro servants
• 180 There is no corner where one does not of talk shares
• 184 After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet
• 186 Use barbarians to control barbarians
• 188 I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy
• 264 Further events
• 189 As far as I think it possible for man to go
• 190 I am the state
• 191 Don’t forget your great guns, the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings
• 192 Assemble all the knowledge scattered on the surface of the earth
• 198 Further events
• 204 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal
• 208 Sire, it’s a revolution
• 214 I must make of all the peoples of Europe one people, and of Paris the capital of the world
• 216 Let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear. To hesitate is to perish
• 220 Life without industry is guilt
• 226 You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know
• 228 Society was cut in two
• 230 This enterprise will return immense rewards
• 236 Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved
• 238 Let us arm. Let us fight for our brothers
• 242 These sad scenes of death and sorrow, when are they to come to an end?
• 243 Better to abolish serfdom from above, than to wait for it to abolish itself from below
• 244 Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
• 248 Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent
• 250 America is God’s crucible, the greatest melting pot
• 252 Enrich the country, strengthen the military
• 254 In my hand I wield the universe and the power to attack and kill
• 256 I ought to be jealous of the Eiffel Tower. She is more famous than I am
• 258 If I could, I would annex other planets
• 260 My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth, and the teachings of science
• 262 Deeds not words
• 270 You often wish you were dead
• 276 History will not forgive us if we do not assume power now
• 280 This is not peace. This is an armistice for 20 years
• 281 Death is the solution to all problems. No man— no problem
• 282 Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish
• 284 The truth is that men are tired of liberty
• 286 In starting and waging a war, it is not right that matters but victory
• 294 The Final Solution of the Jewish Question
• 296 All we did was fly and sleep
• 298 At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom
• 302 The name of our state shall be Israel
• 304 The Long March is a manifesto, a propaganda force, a seeding-machine
• 306 Ghana, your beloved country, is free forever
• 308 We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked
• 310 People of the whole world are pointing to the satellite
• 311 I have a dream
• 312 I am not going to lose Vietnam
• 314 A revolution is not a bed of roses
• 316 Scatter the old world, build the new
• 318 We shall defend it with our blood and strength, and we shall meet aggression with aggression and evil with evil
• 322 The Iron Curtain is swept aside
• 324 All power to the people
• 325 Never, never, and never again
• 326 Create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival or life
• 327 Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack
• 328 You affect the world by what you browse
• 330 A crisis that began in the mortgage markets of America has brought the world’s financial system close to collapse
• 334 This is a day about our entire human family
• 340 Futher events
• 342 GLOSSARY
• 344 INDEX
• 351 QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS
• 352 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS