How did Buddha realize the meaning of life?

Answer 1

A personal view is that there is no riddle, what happens to us is the result of what we think, say and do. The riddle is that there is no riddle! The Buddha teaches that the only thing that limits our ability to see this is the ignorance that we have created.

Answer 2

The answer to suffering is the 8 fold path..

Suffering is caused by want..

To end suffering you must end your desire by achieveing peace within

yourslef and with all the things around you..

You end desire by following the 8 fold path..

Answer 3

The Buddha did not discover the meaning of life. It has no meaning, it simply is. What he did determine is that the unenlightened life is in a constant state of suffering or unsatisfactoriness. This is due to desire for worldly needs. He stated this unsatisfactory condition can be eliminated by reducing desire by following the Eightfold Path

Answer 4

The Buddha did not discover the meaning of life, It has no meaning, it simply is. He observed that the unenlightened life is in a constant state of suffering or unsatisfactoriness. This is due to desire for worldly needs. He stated this unsatisfactory condition can be eliminated by reducing desire by following the Eightfold Path. Furthermore he determined that neither a life of pursuing pleasure or a life of deprivation is a suitable route to happiness or enlightenment. His Middle Way balanced both of these extremes.

Answer 5

Enlightenment means to have found out the meaning of life and because of this became spiritually enlightened and past into the next world ( if there is one)

Answer 6

The legend is that Siddharta Gautama sat himself down under a bodhi tree and refused to get up until he was "awake" (i.e., "Buddha").