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1. Sickness 2. Old Age 3. Death 4. Ascetics (people who deny their bodies food, cleanliness and any other "privelege". Shakymuni, who became Buddha, was a prince whose father sheltered him from all of these things, hoping that his son would fulfill the prophecy made at his birth (that he would either become a religious or a political leader) and become a great political leader like himself. The shock of all these things at once caused him to run away from the palace and become an ascetic.

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