Kapilavastu

StudyBlue printing of Kapilavastu html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; font-size: 100%; background: transparent; } body { line-height: 1; } blockquote, q { quotes: none; } blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after { content: ''; content: none; } /* remember to define focus styles! */ :focus { outline: 0; } /* remember to highlight inserts somehow! */ ins { text-decoration: none; } del { text-decoration: line-through; } /* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */ table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; } /* end RESET */ .header { min-width:800px; } .logo { padding:6px 20px 2px 20px; margin:0; font-size:25px; font-weight:bold; color:#808285; position:relative; border-bottom: 1px solid #c5c5c5; } .logo-blue { color:#70adc4; } .logo-desc { font-weight:normal; font-size:19px; color:#cccccc; margin-top:50px; position:absolute; display: none; } .back-button { position:absolute; top:20px; right:20px; font-size:13px; line-height:25px; color:rgb(0,175,225); font-weight:normal; } .back-button a { color:rgb(0,175,225); } .instructions { padding:0; margin:0; width:100%; position:relative; color:rgb(100,100,100); } .step-holder { border-left:1px solid #ededed; margin-left:20px; } .steps { padding:15px 0; float:left; width:24%; border-right:1px solid #ededed; text-align:center; } .steps-01 { } .steps-02 { } .steps-03 { } .steps-04 { } .label { padding:5px 10px; } .print-button { } .print-button a { background-color:rgb(0,175,225); color:white; line-height: 19px; padding:9px 8px 5px 30px; font-size:14px; text-decoration:none; background-image: url(images/printer.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 7px 50%; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; } .print-button a:hover { background-color:black; } .theNote .content { width: 8.0in !important; margin: 5px auto; padding:20px; background-color:white; } .theNote .header { border-bottom: 1px dashed #C8C8C8; font-size: 17px; padding: 0 0 10px; line-height: 19px; color: #00ADE1; min-width:500px; } .theNote .body { font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 10px 0; } .theNote{ padding:6px 0; clear:both; background-color: rgb(200,200,200); } .theNote h3{ color: rgb(100,100,100); } .theNote h1, .theNote h3{ background-color:white; padding:2px 20px; width:8.0in !important; margin: 0 auto; font-size: 15px; } .theNote h1{ padding-top: 10px; font-size: 15px; } .theNote h1:first-child{ font-size: 20px; } .theNote h3 { font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; } #options { border: 3px double #ccc; padding: 5px 12px; margin: 10px 50px 10px 20px; float: left; } #info { border-top: 1px solid #ccc; padding-top: 5px; font-style: italic; } li { margin: 5px 10px 5px 25px; } ul li { list-style: disc; } ol li { list-style: decimal; } img { border: 0; } table { clear: both; width: 100%; border: 1px solid #c5c5c5; border-width: 1px 0; margin: 0; page-break-after: always; } table#page { page-break-after: auto; } td { text-align: center; font-size: 12px; border-bottom: 1px dashed #c5c5c5; height: 1.75in; width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; } .leftside { border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; padding: 0 15px 0 0; } .bottom td { border-bottom: none; } .clearfix { clear:both; line-height:1px; height:1px; } img { max-width:80%; max-height:150px; margin:20px; } @media print {.header { display: none; } .content .header{ display:inherit; } table { border: 1px dashed #bbb; border-width: 1px 0; } .theNote{ background-color:white; } } INDIA! In the foothills of the Himalayan mountains between 500 BC and 500 CE, there was a small kingdom. One day, the king and queen of this kingdom learned they were going to have a baby, and sent for an astrologer to tell them the baby's future. The astrologer told them that they would have a son, who would be one of the greatest people to walk the earth, but if he experienced the outside world, he would abandon his duties as a prince and never come back. The king and queen resolved to keeping the boy in the palace and spoil him like any good parent (NOT). The boy grew up, not exactly spoiled rotten but pretty much content, yet he longed to be out there, living in the suuuuun~. When he was about twenty his curiosity got the best of him and he convinced a servant to help him sneak out. The servant was reluctant, because if they were caught he would surely be killed, but the prince assured him that he would protect him from his father's wrath. In the middle of the night, the prince sneaks out, and finds himself in a local village, and what he finds is very distressing. He sees suffering, disease, and abandonment, when he has been use to having every luxury at his fingertips. He is extrememly distraught, and becomes obsessed with suffering: what is it? how does it happen? why does it happen? So, he starts a quest around the kingdom to understand what suffering is. In his travels he meets all kinds of people. He asks around and some people have a little insight into the human condition. One group tells him that there is suffering because everything in life is predetermined, so it's no use fighting it. Kappy is dissatisfied with this because it doesn't leave room for personal responsibility, so he moves on. The next group he finds are partiers, and these people tell him that suffering comes from speculation and overanalyzing the world around you. These people believed that all things that are not tactile do not exist; they believed that people should just have a good time and there will be no suffering. Kappy runs through a field in France singing about how there must be more than this provincial life, and find himself wandering away from civilization and into a forest full of anchient hippies. These people have rejected society, and believe that the world we live in with our cities and money and everything is merely an illusion, and all that exists is a spiritual world. In order to reject the physical world fully, one must meditate until the world falls away. They do not eat, or drink, or interact with the physical world, because that brings bad karma, and takes you away from the spiritual existence. Basically they tell Kappy that there is no purpose to life, except to meditate until you DIE. So he meditates with them. He becomes emaciated. Then he has an epiphany, an inlightenment, and reawakening when he looks to the sky and realized: This. Is. All. A. Bunch. Of. CRAP. Kapilavastu realizes that he's never truly understood anything about suffering, merely different ways of running from it. He tells the hippies to go screw themselves, gets up and drags himself to the nearest village to beg for food. After he is well rested, he goes and sits under a tree to think, and he understands suffering! From this story we take what are called the Four Nobel Truths: 1. the world is suffering 2. suffering is caused by desire (physical, mental, sexual...) 3. if you want to get rid of suffering, you ahve to get rid of desire 4. to get rid of desire, you ahve to live a good life with good intentions