Buddha Primitus My name is Gojueta Buddha, the first of the Buddha sages. We, the Buddha, are not man nor god. I do not sleep, I do not eat, I do not bath, and I do not need medicine. I can live for an aeon if required of me, I possess omniscience, and repulse karma. My quest for nirvana began when I was born a painless birth which took the life of my mother Queen Maja under a shala tree as we traveled to my grandfather’s kingdom. Stories passed down from her royal midwives have told me that I was born out of my mother’s dream of my father, the six-tusked, white elephant. In her dream, his fearsome, immaculate white tusks pierced her abdomen and placed an immortal remedy of transcendence in her stomach, myself, the first Buddha. My mother’s husband, King Śudo shielded me from the calamities of mortality until I was 29 years of age. He wanted me to be a great king not a great holy man or a Buddha such as the arahant predicted. Thus, he blinded me from the sufferings and faiths of humankind. When I left my summer palace of white marble, I road my horse, Kataka, among the people and witnessed decay, a body no longer with gender being dismantled by fungus, bugs, and animals. I witnessed men who relinquished all possessions and ate only when given food by generous travelers. I looked at my…show more content… I collapsed in a glistening river, glowing white with vibrant life, falling on my rigid ribs, half of my mouth submerged like a fish half in half out of water. A villager, Suta, found me and saved me; my anatomy clearly visible, my bones, veins, and ligaments bulging against my skin, she gave me food believing I was a spirit that had answered her prayers. I crawled over to a pipal tree and collapsed vowing jhana meditation until I achieved enlightenment as my companions abandoned me believing my volition was
