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-Wake up, Blue.

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-Hello Charlie.

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Hello you!

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-What are you looking for?

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-Something important.

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-Can you see it?

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-No, it's too dark.

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-Now can you see it?

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-Yes, there it is!

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-So what's so important
about that then?

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-It's my special
blue rubber band.

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I was worried I'd lost it.

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-It's just a rubber band.

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You don't need it.

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-I might one day.

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-Oh Blue, you need
to be enlightened.

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-What does enlightened mean?

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-It sort of means
realising what's important.

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That's what Buddhists try to do.

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I learned about it
in school today.

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This is a picture of
Buddha meditating.

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-What's meditating?

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Is that how you discover
what's important?

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-Why don't you come
with me and find out?

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-Zippity zip,
let's go on a trip!

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-Hello Srivati.

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-Hello Charlie.

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Hello Blue.

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-Who's that?

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This is Siddhartha Gautama.

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He lived about 2,500
years ago in India.

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But he's more commonly
known as the Buddha.

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That means "fully awakened
one" or "enlightened".

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-What does enlightened mean?

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It sounds like switching
on a light or something.

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-That's not far off.

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It's like when you get an
answer to a big question,

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you know, like in a cartoon
when a light bulb goes on

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over somebody's head.

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It's like that except,
with the Buddha, the light

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never goes off.

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-Why's he sitting like that?

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-It shows that he's
meditating, which

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means he's allowing his mind to
settle and become really still.

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And Siddhartha
did that before he

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became the Buddha because
there were loads of things

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he didn't understand.

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-What didn't he understand?

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-He was trying to figure
out why people suffer

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and what you might be
able to do about it.

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He'd been brought
up as a prince,

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so he lived in a palace
with servants, luxury,

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all the comforts
you could think of.

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But it hadn't made him any
wiser, so he left the palace

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and he tried living
without all those things,

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including without a lot
of food, but it still

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didn't give him the answer.

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-Did he ever find the answer?

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-Yes, he did.

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He realised that most people are
unhappy because they're always

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wanting more.

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More food, more stuff,
more games, more toys.

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And we could never get
everything that we want.

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The secret is to stop
wanting in that way.

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And we call that the
Four Noble Truths.

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So one: sometimes
people get unhappy.

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Two: the reason why they get
unhappy is because they're

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wanting the wrong things
or because they're getting

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greedy for the good things.

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So three: the way to stop that
is to stop wanting in that way.

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And how you do that,
number four: is

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to follow the Buddha's
teachings, which means

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keep trying to be more
peaceful and to be

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more kind and helpful
to other people as well.

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-Sounds easy when
you put it like that.

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-It might sound easy,
but it's difficult to do.

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Buddhists like me, we
spend our whole lives

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trying to get better at it.

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And meditating really helps.

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-How do you meditate?

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-There's different
ways of doing that.

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Usually you let yourself settle
down and then maybe focus

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on one thing as a time,
such as your breathing,

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or some wise words of the
Buddha, or maybe a candle.

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-Time to go home now, Blue.

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-Thank you for
answering my questions.

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-You're welcome.

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This is for you.

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It's the Four Noble Truths.

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-Thank you.

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-So what did we learn today?

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-Well, today we went
to a Buddhist temple.

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And we learned that
the word enlightened

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means to find the answer
to a big question.

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Buddhists follow the
teachings of a man

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called Siddhartha Gautama, who
they believe was enlightened.

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The Buddha means someone
who is enlightened.

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Buddhists try to stop
wanting the wrong things

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to feel happier.

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-What are you doing?

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-I'm meditating on what's
most important to me.

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Can you guess?

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-Cake?

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-Wrong.

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Although I do love cake.

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-It's not that
rubber band, is it?

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-Nope.

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Although it did come in useful.

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-Then I give up.

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-It's you, silly.

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-Aw, thank you.

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Good night Blue.

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Love you!

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-Night Charlie.

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Love you more!

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