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In the final chapter of the Explore Lifelong Learning groups spirituality section, Dave Weider shared what Buddhism is all about.

Herald photo by Jodi Schellenberg

Dave Weider spoke at the Explore Lifelong Learning group on Tuesday about Buddhism.

I became interested in spirituality probably 20 years ago when I was in university, Weider said. I had a few of my own personal life struggles but at that point in my life I felt as though I had everything materially that I needed that I should have been happy.

I was in school, I had a roof over my head, I had a good family, everything that I had I felt that through all that there was something missing for me, there was a bit of a lacking or a void in my life.

Weider started to search for his meaning of life, where he said many people start when heading down the spiritual path.

This journey begins with many of us as this longing or feeling that there is some dissatisfaction, some unsatisfactory aspect of our lives that we cant put our fingers on, he said. At that time, I became a seeker. I started to look for answers in different traditions.

Since he was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, he was exposed to those traditions but was open to exploring other avenues.

Those questions I was asking myself were exactly the same questions that the Buddha asked himself at an early age, he said. Those same questions have existed for millennia and the Buddha has claimed and taught that he found some answers to some of those questions over 2,600 years ago.

Buddha was born Siddhrtha Gautama in in Lumbini, India in the sixth century BCE.

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