Chapter 10: The Enlightened One in His Land

A word common to Indo-European languages is:

• supercalifragilisiticexpialidocious

• pater (father)

• periwinkle

• anesthetist

The earliest settlement near the Indus River was called

• Macchu Pichu

• Jamestown

• Mohenjo Daro

• Enderworld

According to the caste system,

• you are locked into a role in society

• you can only marry within your caste

• you will stay in your caste forever

• you can rise above your circumstances

Brahma is

• everything and everwhere

• the highest divinity of all

• a kind of bull

• the Hindu underworld

Prince Gautama was

• the Buddha

• searching for inner peace

• living in 1912

• protected from all sadness as a child

Some of the beliefs of the Hindu religion include

• karma

• reincarnation

• devotion

• multiple powerful gods

In Buddha's "moment of Enlightenment" under the fig tree, he realized

• he needed to remove himself from the world

• we must control what we wish for

• achieving Nirvana would take years of work

• all suffering comes from our own desires

Nirvana is

• the state of inner calm

• a band from the 80s and 90s

• the escape from the endless cycle of birth and death

• a type of car