The Great Renunciation | Life of the Buddha EP3 | Lotus Heart Awakening

On the night his son was born, Prince Siddhartha Gautama rode away from his palace, his kingdom, his family — and everything he had ever known. This was not abandonment. This was the most courageous act of his life. In this episode: The banquet that could not reach him The doorway he stood in but would not cross The horse Kanthaka who died of grief King Bimbisāra's offer of half a kingdom The teachers whose wisdom was not enough What the Great Renunciation really means ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 SERIES: The Life of the Buddha ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EP1: Birth of the Buddha →    • Birth of the Buddha | Buddhist History Ep....   EP2: The Four Sights →    • The Four Sights That Changed the World | T...   EP3: The Great Renunciation ← YOU ARE HERE EP4: Years of Asceticism → Coming Soon 00:00 Introduction 00:40 Recap of The Four Sights 01:14 The night Rahula was born 02:06 The banquet 02:51 The sleeping dancers 04:02 The doorway he would not cross 04:42 Channa and Kanthaka 05:34 Riding through the silent city 06:35 Crossing the river Anomā 06:57 Cutting the hair 07:21 Channa's grief 08:32 Kanthaka — the horse who died of grief 09:09 Alone for the first time 09:27 Rājagaha — begging in the city 10:39 King Bimbisāra's offer 11:24 The promise 10:45 The teachers 14:44The meaning of renunciation 19:18 Outro and preview EP4