From Buddha-to-be to Teacher in the Buddha’s own Words

The Awakening - 32
Then this occurred to me: ‘I am not afraid of that pleasure. That
pleasure is one thing, and unwholesome sensual pleasures are
another thing.’
Then this occurred to me: ‘It is not easy to attain that pleasure with
the body so excessively emaciated, what if I were to take gross food,
boiled rice and milk?’
Then I took gross food, boiled rice and milk. But at that time the
group-of-five monks were present, thinking: ‘This ascetic Gotama
will attain Dhamma, and he will inform us.
When I took gross food, boiled rice and milk, then the group-of-five
monks being disgusted, left me, thinking: ‘This ascetic Gotama is
given to luxury, he has forsaken the striving, he has gone back to
luxury.’
11. The Absorptions 20
Then having taken gross food and regained strength, quite secluded
from sense desires, secluded from unwholesome things, having
thinking, reflection, and the happiness and rapture born of seclusion,
I dwelt having attained the first absorption.
With the ending of thinking and reflection, with internal clarity, and
one-pointedness of mind, being without thinking, without reflection,
having the happiness and rapture born of concentration, I dwelt
having attained the second absorption.
With the fading away of rapture I dwelt equanimous, mindful,
clearly knowing, experiencing happiness through the body, about
which the Noble Ones declare: “He lives pleasantly, mindful, and
equanimous,” thus I dwelt having attained the third absorption.
Having given up pleasure, given up pain, and with the previous
disappearence of mental well-being and sorrow, without pain,
20 MN 36, 85, 100.