Someone asked Lord Buddha, ‘Why did you leave your palace, wife and son and become a renunciate? Shouldn’t you be fulfilling your obligations and responsibilities to the kingdom, to your wife, father, mother and your baby son?’ Buddha replied, ‘Let me ask you a question. If your house is on fire, what would you do instinctively? Wouldn’t you jump out of the house as quickly as possible?’ Buddha continued, ‘That’s what I have done. I was...