Well, as a girl I would feel pressured to be a mother and a wife because that’s what the schools are teaching me. I would feel lucky to be a student, because many other kids my age don’t get to go to school.
The actions are adequately matched.
- A life of suffering will lead to a life with religious ascetics. However, it is seen as one of the extremes that should be avoided because self mortification is unprofitable and unworthy.
- A life as an Hindu Prince leads to a life given to pleasures. This is seen as the other extreme because it also leads to being unworthy and unprofitable.
- Meditating under the Bodhi Tree leads to the path of enlightment. It is what leads to "The Middle Way" between "Eternalism" (which is denied by Buddhism) and "Annihilationism" (Budhism accepts the fact of existence. Therefore things can be destroyed.)
Classical art is the paintings, sculptures and architectures of Ancient Greece and Rome.
