Buddhism and The Buddha

The Buddha was once a man named Siddhartha Gautama he lived during the 5th century. he belonged to a wealthy  family. He would never come out of his house one day he finally did and saw four sights that made him change his mind. He saw a sick person, a dead man, a beggar, and a bent old man. This made him change his perspective of life an he decided to leave everything behind and live in total poverty. But then he decided that that did not take you any closer to finding the truth, he reached an answer and decided that the answer was the balance. And in balance was how he tried to life the rest of his life.