Did the Buddha Just Stay at Home?

"We live for the fight when it's all that we've got," says Jon Bon Jovi. "If you just be comfortable, comfortable all the time, it actually makes you less eventually happy anyway" The Buddha left his palace and meditated almost to death before he became an enlightened man. He didn't do that by just staying at home and living his normal, easy life. 'The process of the struggle, the difficulty, it's part of life'