to see old age, to see sickness, and to see death, mortality gets him thinking those profound life quons that we've talked about in class - what is the meaning of life if, inevitably, we end up dying, if inevitably, there is suffering, if inevitably, there's pain? and this seems to be the buddha's story. so, though he has a wonderful life, a beautiful son - very colorful imagery in these - has everything that life could offer a human being, he still is disturbed - he's a seeker; he's a quester. and as the story goes, he leaves the beautiful palace, goes out into the forest, lives the life of a hindu, ascetic, a yogi - he tries all those yoga practices we talked about - tries every avenue he can to find enlightenment. and then finally, one day, he sits under the bodhi tree and he becomes awakened - this man, this human being, siddhartha gautama, a human being, becomes awake. and that's what buddha means - it's he awakens to something so extraordinary as a set of answers to profound life questions that i wanted to go through it as we're talking about the experiential dimension, because at