Of course, the Buddha doesn't need much by way of introduction, most of us know his story, but it is helpful to set the scene. He was born the son of a king. He was a prince named Siddhartha Gotama. So he lived in a royal palace, along with his wife and their son, and everything was taken care of all the accommodations, luxuries, pleasures one could imagine at that time, which was around the fifth or sixth century. The story goes that one day, when he was at the age of 29 he left the grounds of the Royal Palace, possibly for the first time in his very sheltered life. I and as he walked through the streets, or more likely, maybe he was taken by carriage, because he was a prince, after all. Anyway, as he went through the streets, he was deeply affected by three sites. He saw an old person, a sick person and the body of a dead person who is being carried down the street.