At age 29 he left his life of wealth and privilege, not to mention his wife and kids, to aimlessly wander the streets, mooching off the generousity of others. These days that's just called being homeless. Voluntarily. Even though daddy's got a trust fund and a yacht.
One day, after years of poor hygiene and couch-surfing, he took a seat under a tree. He vowed never to arise until he had found the Truth.
A few weeks later he attained Enlightenment, which is a state of elation and inner peace that can only be described as similar to defeating M.Bison and Shang Tsung on Hard mode.
Critics cite Siddy-G's self-imposed starvation and years of malnutrition as creating the ideal conditions for a massive flood of feel-good chemicals in his brain, which he mistook as 'Nirvana'. While many people have mistaken Nirvana to be feel-good music, the G-dawg took it a step further and claimed a religion in his name.
Well not his name exactly. 'Buddha' was more like the 'Rambo' of the late 500Bc. It stands for Buddy Valhalla.
Fast forward a few millenia and we have the Thai Buddha, the Chinese Buddha, the fat Buddha (how ironic) and in some parts of the world, Karate-Arm Action Buddha.
Buddhism has become THE cool religion. Exotic and magical and it doesn't even require the kind of book-reading, building-gathering or discipline of the other religions. It's a flexible religion which you can pursue any which way you desire and fits in with the general slacker-hippie generation.
Buddha, buddy you are Overrated.
