Kanthaka, the horse who took Buddha to his hermitage, really stood out to me in this reading. Horses are so special to so many people, that I think it was amazing that as soon as Kanthaka came home from taking Buddha, he immediately died. I like to think that he was old and knew it was his time after he had been in so many battles with Buddha's father, but his love for his family was so strong that he wanted to stay and help Buddha fulfill his life's purpose before he died.
I also liked how much the women in Buddha's life stuck together after he went away. Their love for him united them, and I think that's very important. Once he actually became the Buddha, I thought the realizations he made were very important. These were the problems, such as death and sickness, that had led him away from his family. I liked his realization about each evil of the world being a direct response to a good thing.
Within this story from the Buddha unit; The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold (1922).t's also important that Buddha now go and illuminate the problems of others and teach them about his own realizations and how he overcame a sheltered and protected life in order to find truth in the world. There's a lot of different dimensions within the life of Buddha that could be made into really great stories.
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