The worst thing that the Buddha ever did was strive for physical and spiritual perfection. It contradicted the Buddhist ideas of avoiding attachment to the sources of human suffering. Thus, being linked to the material world in the described manner cannot contribute to one’s achievement of enlightenment. Therefore, this event is attributed to the Buddha’s early attempts to fulfill this task which he managed to avoid in the future.
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