How did prince Siddhartha suffer?

Answer 1

One day, when he began to become curious about the world outside the palace walls. He asked a charioteer to take him out to see what it was like. He was shocked at the sight of an aged man, a sick man and finally a dead man (corpse). The reason for him being so shocked be these three sights was that he had never in his life seen them because from a very young age his father, through the fear that he would become religously minded, he kept him sheltered from such things and only shown him the beautiful and happy things in the world. Aftr seeing these three sights and being told that these three things were natural and would evenually happen to him and his family the way in which they happened to everyone, he saw a four sight - a religous man with nothing else to his name but a begging bowl and the clothes on his back and he looked peaceful. That was when Prince Siddhartha Gautana relieved suffering existed.

The Four Sights

1. A Aged Man
2. A Sick Man
3. A Dead Man (Corpse)
4. A Religous Man