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Why did it take about 35 years for Siddhartha to become the Buddha?
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There is no timeline to become enlightened.Buddhism accepts reincarnation and understands that it can take untold cycles of death and rebirth before understandings is attained.
You only are aware of the final years before he became a Buddha, not the lead to it.
In that last life (before enlightenment) he spent years as an idle rich person surrounded with luxury, had a period of awareness when he discovered suffering, years as a wandering mendicant and aesthetic, had a flash of understanding at the end of his meditation under the body tree which crystallized as the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path, and years of expressing his understanding to others.
Of this lifetime which 35 years could one define as the time he took to become the Buddha.
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Why did it take 35 years for Siddhartha to become the buddha?
For the first years of his life, Siddhartha lived a sheltered life and questioned nothing. He only left the palace to search for answers to suffering at the age of 29 and between the ages of 29 and 35 he was still searching for answers. He only became the Buddha when he became enlightened (the Buddha means, 'the enlightened one') and enlightenment does not come instantly. It takes work. you have to recognise the Three Universal truths and the Four Noble Truths and follow the eightfold path.
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