Siddhartha Gautama lived in India somewhere between the 4th and 6th centuries BC, and is regarded as the founder of Buddhism. The Buddha taught of a single universal moral law, and a ‘middle way’ that included ethical training, meditation practices, and self-restraint, while criticizing practices such as animal sacrifice, the caste system, secret wisdom, and the excesses of asceticism and indulgence. Themes included Non-Violence, Truth, Morality and Liberation from the cycles of fear, aversion, craving, delusion, suffering, and rebirth.
He taught of a Noble Eightfold Path towards liberation, which included
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