お釈迦様として知られるガウタマはシャカ族の王子として最も早くて紀元前624年に生まれました。
Gautama known as the Buddha was born as a prince of Sakya in 624 B.C. at the earliest.
16歳で結婚し、19歳でご子息も授かっています。
He got married when he was 16, and he had a son when he was 19.
いわゆる何不自由ない生活を送っていたのですが、何とも言えない虚無感に苛まれていました。
Although he had a so called perfect life, he couldn’t let go his feeling of unanswerable emptiness.
29歳のとき、高い社会的地位や全財産のみならず、家族すら棄てて荒行に入ることを決めたのでした。
When he turned 29, he decided to be an ascetic, and he abandoned not only his high social status and all his possessions but even his family.
6年間の荒行の末、探し求めている答えが荒行からは見つからないのではないかと思うに至り、瞑想を始めると遂に悟りを開くに至りました。
After 6 years of his ascetic practices, he had come to think that asceticism wouldn’t give him the answer he was looking for, so he began meditating and finally succeeded in realizing the whole truth of this world.
80歳で入滅されるまで生涯悟りの道を布教する人生を送られたのでした。
He spent the rest of his life propagating his findings, and he passed away when he was 80.
