To match Siddhartha's actions that led him to the Middle Way, we can pair them as follows:
- Life with religious ascetics - life of suffering
- Life as a Hindu prince - life given to pleasures
- Meditating under the Bodhi Tree - enlightenment
Siddhartha experienced a life of pleasures as a prince, then turned to extreme asceticism resulting in a life of suffering, and ultimately found enlightenment while meditating under the Bodhi Tree, which led him to discover the Middle Way.