Anybody could do it. But Buddha, when he left that palace, first had to figure out things for himself. And he tried going to gurus and talking it out and debating and wandering the hills. He tried fasting, not eating food and seeing if that would lead him to some kind of enlightenment. And eventually he found it in meditation in a fig tree at Gaya. And this famous fig tree is where supposedly Buddha meditated for 49 days and then a big light bulb went over his head and now he figured it out. He's enlightened and he's going to come up with four noble truths.