why did buddha want to find enligthenment?

Answer 1

Cause he was in the dark!*

Answer 2

Because he was in pain.

Siddhartha Gautama was raised in a palace and was to inherit his father's kingdom. He was sheltered from the world outside and only knew ease, luxury, and such. One day he was outside the palace for a reason I forget, and he saw three things that disturbed him: a dead person, a sick person, and an old person. It occurred to him perhaps for the first time that these things happen in the world--people get sick, people get old, and people die. This filled him with despair, anxiety, and all that stuff.

Having thus realized that there is suffering in the world, he couldn't ignore it. It disturbed him. And he began his search for enlightenment so that he could find a way to eliminate suffering in his own life and stop being disturbed by the suffering in the world.

Answer 3

He wasn't really trying to find enlightenment; he was tired of suffering. He was raised in "the church" as a Brahman's son, but traditional Hinduism didn't end his suffering. He tried many religious practices, and some secular ones, but none of them ended his suffering. Finally he had kind of given up and as he sat under that famous tree, just sitting with no desires, he became enlightened and learned the truth about suffering, saw how to end it, and went out to spread the word. At least that's what I've heard.

Answer 4

The seven factors are mindfulness, effort, investigation, joy (or rapture), concentration, tranquility, and equanimity. They are divided into three arousing factors, three stabilizing factors and a central point of application. The three arousing are effort, investigation, and joy. The three stabilizing factors are concentration, tranquility, and equanimity. The common link is mindfulness.

Answer 5

To become enlighted himself.

Answer 6

Cause he had nothing else to do.