Please read THROUGH Samsara. That means, to the END of Samsara.
Respond to the following prompts / questions in complete sentences and use quotes when requested. Make sure to use correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Your responses should be between 3-5 sentences in length.
Due Dates:
A Block: Thursday, 12/2
B Block: Wednesday, 12/1
*Please be prepared to discuss these questions in class on those days.
Awakening
Respond to the following prompts / questions in complete sentences and use quotes when requested. Make sure to use correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Your responses should be between 3-5 sentences in length.
Due Dates:
A Block: Thursday, 12/2
B Block: Wednesday, 12/1
*Please be prepared to discuss these questions in class on those days.
Awakening
In “Awakening,” when Siddhartha leaves the Buddha, he asks himself: “What is it that you wanted to learn from teachings and teachers, and although they taught you much, what was it they could not teach you?” (Hesse 38).
1. Relate this selection of text to your own life. Have you ever felt this way about education? When and why? Be specific in your response.
Kamala
On the opening page of “Kamala,” Hesse writes: “Siddhartha learned something new on every step of his path, for the world was transformed and he was enthralled” (Hesse 45).
2. Based on the above, have you ever felt this way? Have you ever woken up and seen the same reality transformed or changed in some way? Or is it yourself that has changed, and that your surroundings have remained the same?
3. There are several excerpts from Kamala that refer to the awakening of Siddhartha’s sexuality. Quote one of these passages and annotate the quotation.
Amongst the People
4. Explain how the title “Amongst the People” can serve as a summary for this entire section.
5. What is the irony in Kamaswami becoming a role model for Siddhartha? Which values did Siddhartha previously have that are the antithesis of what Kamaswami stands for?
6. Why did Siddhartha believe that it was Kamala, not Kamaswami, who taught him the value and meaning of his present life” (Hesse 66)?
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7. Why was Siddhartha still separate from the “people of the world” (Hesse 75)? Why were the “ordinary people...still alien to [him], just as he was apart from them” (Hesse 75)? Hint: The answer is on the same page...but please feel free to give your own thoughts on the question.
8. “Slowly, like moisture entering the dying tree trunk, slowly filling and rotting it, so did the world and inertia creep into Siddhartha’s soul; it slowly filled his soul, made it heavy, made it tired sent it to sleep” (Hesse 76).
Based on the quote above, what aspects of “the world” do you believe were making his soul heavy and tired? Be specific in your response.
9. How did Siddhartha display his “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen” (Hesse 79)?
10. Why is Samsara described as a game? Do you agree with Siddhartha’s view of Samsara? Why or why not? Be specific in your response.
1. Education may give you superficial and general instruction of the things you wanted to know or things you should do, but won't and can't directly give you the desired thing. Like Shiddhartha has said, it is entirely up to the person to actually achieve the goal and truly 'learn'. I used to learn ethics in my previous school, and teachers taught me about all the virtues and responsibilities humans should bear. However, despite the fact, I paid close attention to their lectures, I never felt like learning anything, for I had known most of it already in my heart, and it was solely my actions and experiences that would actually make me realize the true meaning and needs for those virtues and responsibilities.
ReplyDelete2. I believe I am yet to experience the kind of transformation that Siddhartha experienced, but I have sensed minor changes in both myself and environment depending on my mood. Since humans are emotional animals, I think our ways of perceiving our surroundings change depending on our feelings at the moment. If I am in a good mood, I feel like everything is lovely and amazing, but if I am in a bad mood, the very same surroundings feel irritating and boring. I think that it's the internal change that make one perceives one's surroundings differently and thus let one's brain sense the external changes.
3. "and that, behind this first kiss, there was long, well-organized, and well-tested series of kisses, each one different, still awaiting him. Breathing deeply, he stood there, at that moment as astonished as a child at the wealth of knowledge and things worth learning that revealed itself to his eyes" (Hesse 32).
This quote indicates Siddhartha's awakening sexuality and sensation of Siddharta, who has yet to learn a thing about women, after the first kiss . The analogy to the "child at the wealth of knowledge" connects to Siddhartha's previous phase and reminds me of his previous passion in learning about Brahman and the true nature of himself. I think this foreshadows and indicates how eagerly and passionately Siddhartha will be at learning about love as he once was at accumulating his knowledge and wisdom.
4. *my book's chapter title was "With the Child-People", so I will discuss how the chapter of my book is related to its title.
The title summarizes the whole story, since it illustrates the process of Siddhartha who was a samana in the forest, isolated from the mundane world, gradually blends into the community of the people, whom he called "child-people" due to their contrasting, in many ways simpler, characteristics from Siddhartha's. In this chapter, Siddhartha, after the awakening, spends his life with the people, perceiving the world in a new way, and learning about trivial things, he was yet to experience or observe. He experiences wealth, power, and love, or at least how it applies to people, during this new phase of his life. His samana manner, spiritual manner becomes contaminated by the mundane world, and slowly Siddhartha forgets his pervious goal and becomes more and more like one of those people.
5. It is ironic how Kamaswasmi becomes Siddhartha's role model, because Siddhartha previously held the values of "thinking", "fasting", and "waiting" and disregarded Kamaswami's worries and avarice with contempt. As Siddhartha becomes more and more like Kamaswami, more and more contempt and disgust he holds over Kamaswami and himself. It is also ironic how Siddhartha achieves the wealth which causes him to become like Kamaswami with the values of "thinking", "fasting", and "waiting", which are the antithesis of Kamaswami's values.
6. Siddhartha believes its Kamala who taught him the value and meaning of his present life, because he didn't learn anything he values from Kamaswami. Siddhartha tells Kamaswami one day, "I have learned from you how much a basket of fish costs, and how much interest can be demanded for a loan of money. That is your corpus of knowledge. But I did not learn how to think from you, my dear Kamaswami; it would be better if you tried to learn that from me" (Hesse 38). Siddhartha attains wealth, but was never aiming for it. He doesn't seek for it; his sole purpose of gathering wealth is to meet Kamala, and thus Kamaswami cannot teach Siddhartha, who is apathetic and unwilling to learn about Kamaswami style of life. On the other hands, Kamala's wisdom and knowledge teach Siddhartha the way to love, and about women, something that interests and enchants Siddhartha.
ReplyDelete7. Siddhartha is separate from the "people of the world" because he doesn't attach himself to anything and doesn't love anyone. His way of loving is a bit different from the rest of the world. His samana nature does not allow Siddhartha to feel the mundane joy or the strong desires that other people feel over the earthly thing. Shiddhartha's aim is higher and thus he cannot attach himself nor can he feel joy over the secular entertainment and bond. He enjoys observing and befriending the people, but cannot share their immature and "child-like" happiness, for he knows and experiences things that they haven't, and aims for higher and spiritual goal that they don't.
8. I think the materialistic and avaricious aspects of the world make Siddhartha's soul heavy and tired. He has achieved wealth and prospered, gotten used to the indolent and insatiable life. Gradually, yet, irresistibly, does Siddhartha becomes absorbed in this kind of life style. His inner voice stops directing him, and he merely follows his daily routine full of vices. Despite his contempt for it, he cannot escape the comforts that this kind of life gives him. However, more he becomes used to it, more does he suffer from the disgusts and contempt over himself.
9. Siddhartha displays his "contempt for riches" and "the false deity of businessmen" by gambling. He feels crooked joy in squandering the money and wealth he has accumulated. Gambling is his way of showing his contempt and apathy for riches, a somewhat self-abusive and sadistic manner in which he rids the substance he mocks and detests. However, he creates a paradox as he follows the routine of the businessmen whom he detests so much, in order to mock and waste riches.
10. Siddhartha regards his current life as "samsara, a game for children, a game it might be pleasant to play once, twice, ten times - but over and over again" (Hesse 45)? Samsara is a cycle of life and death. I think Siddarthat meant that a life might be enjoyable thing to live and try a few times, but is not enjoyable when repeatedly lived. This seems to fit into the Buddhist idea, which teaches that the only ultimate goal can be reached when one can break from the cycle of life and reincarnation. Samsara is a thing to be overcome, not the thing to be played again and again. I, although don' personally believe in reincarnation, agrees with Siddhartha, since I think experiences (living a life) are good, but one should never forget the purpose of these experiences is to reach the goal. However, I also think that each experience holds an important value itself, which cannot be disregarded easily.
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ReplyDeletehay guys ur all reading the dumbest book in the world
Delete7. Siddhartha is still separate from the “people of the world” because he cannot have the joy over the things others (people) consider to be good. In the world of people Siddhartha experiences many things such as good food, power, and wealth and still he is unsatisfied for the idea of waiting,
ReplyDeletefasting was still the things that he believed guided his life. The life of the Samana’s and the things that he learned form the Samana’s does not allow Siddhartha to enjoy things from his inner heart of make him want things like other people do. It does not mean that spending time with the people and looking at them live was not fun and boring to him, for he enjoyed them at one kind of “stage” but still, his aims of life and his goals are higher than the other people of the world.
8.I am not really sure about the answer of why Siddhartha’s soul was heavy and tired but based on what I have been reading I think he became tired of the life that went on and on with no “point.” Siddhartha through the life living with people was able to gainwealth and wealth is something we humans like to have. Still though Siddhartha gained wealth, good food, riches he is not contempt with his life for as he becomes more and more like the other people his soul is heavier and tired from the disgust of what he is coming to be like and how he is becoming like the other people.
9.Siddhartha display`s his “contempt of riches” and “ the false deity of businessmen” by playing the game of dice which is gambling. Siddhartha , through gambling looses and at the same time gains a lot of money. While betting he gets more into the idea of gaining more and more riches and greed.
10. Samsara is described as a game for which people is the “path” of normal life in which people live, suffer and then dies. Siddhartha recognized that the drinks, eating, and the wealth that he has obtain would give him pleasure but would produce nothing. He notices that Kamala who has taught him about woman and love would once grow old and would not last forever. He considers Samsara as a game in which was important to have him play but was not needed to be continued. I sometimes do believe that life can be a game and that everyday we repeatedly go through the same things. I also realize that we would once grow old and would one day die. Still though I believe that life can be sometimes portrayed as a game I do think that every step and everything that happens, happens for a purpose and shapes our lives in someway. Still I also believe that people should have an purpose and a goal that they want to obtain during their life.
1. School education provides us with general information about the subjects but it won’t give us the real true ideas I was looking for. I don’t exactly have when I thought about these things but for example class like History, teacher can teach us about each era based on research and remaining texts form that era. But they cannot teach the thoughts and feelings people had during that time periods.
ReplyDelete2. I think I haven’t experienced such a thing as Siddhartha experienced. I can say that the environment will change depending on my mood. When I am in a good mood, everything around me looks and feels nice. In contrast, when I am in a bad mood, everything doesn’t seem right and I easily get tired of talking with my friends. I think both the environment and myself can change and feel that the world has changed.
3. “’You are the best lover,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘I ever saw. You’re stronger than others, more supple, more willing. You’ve learned my art well, Siddhartha. At some time, when I’ll be older, I’d want to bear you child’” (Hesse 51). The first sentence Kamala said would give the reader an idea that Siddhartha has awakens to sexuality. The words stronger, supple and willing can mean physically and mentally. Also Siddhartha became more aggressive toward Kamala and ‘love’.
4. The title was With The Child Like People and this can serve as a summary since Siddhartha starts to live in this particular place for several years. Slowly he interacts with the people in the city, and he falls in love with Kamala, became merchant and experienced new things through the interactions with the child like people that he have not experienced when he was following the teachings of Semana and Buddha.
5. Kamswami becoming a role model for Siddhartha is ironic since Siddhartha’s belief was thinking, waiting, and fasting, which were totally antithesis for Kamswami. Kamswami always carried worries about his business, which Siddhartha didn’t have any until he became wealthy like Kamswami.
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ReplyDelete1. Kamswami only taught Siddhartha how to become a wealthy merchant. This did not teach Siddhartha any value and meaning of his present life. On the other hand, Kamala was the one who taught ‘love’ to Siddhartha. “Her body was flexible like that of a jaguar and like the bow of a hunter; he who had learned from her how to make love, was knowledgeable of many forms of lust, many secret” (Hesse 51). Kamala was smart as Siddhartha and knew lots of stuff that Siddhartha didn’t know such as love, and women.
ReplyDelete2. Even Siddhartha lived with the child like people; he couldn’t throw away his Samana idea. He still had the idea of thinking, waiting, and fasting as his core belief. Although he was in ‘love’ with Kamala, it wasn’t a real true love. He didn’t actually love her, his thoughts about love isn’t same as other people.
3. The materialistic and utilitarianism aspects made his soul heavy and tiring. “Siddhartha had learned to trade, to use his power over people, to enjoy himself with a woman, he had learned to wear beautiful clothes, to give orders to servants, to bathe in perfumed waters” (Hesse 53). Although he have learned new stuff from living like the others do, this way of life slowly affected him and his world slowly collapsed. These aspects made his soul heavy and tiring because all he thought was about how to gain more money, and. As he lost money, his worry towards money increased and led to soul becoming heavy and tiring.
4. He have fell into gambling. Through this game, he gains money and at the same time when he loses, his worry towards the loss of money increases. Gambling is a way to show the contempt of rich and after playing several games; he gets numb about his true self.
5. Samsara is the continuous flow, the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth. Siddhartha probably wanted to say that the game of being with Kamala would not be a continuous thing that would continue until death and even afterlife. I do not agree in a sense of Siddhartha’s view of Samsara. That is because Samsara is an important and valuable for those who believe in incarnation. Siddhartha connected with his experience of being with Kamala, whom does he not actually love. I thought it is kind of rude to connect Samsara to Siddhartha’s ‘game’ he have done for several years.
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7. He was different from the others because although he was in the material world and the world of love, he wasn’t trapped in it. He always had himself and had things that he had previously learned from the Samanas, Gotama, and Brahman. He was the only one who wasn’t controlled by those worlds.
ReplyDelete8. The material world that filled him with possession made his heart heavy and tired. He was slowly turning into a person full of desire and enjoyed the luxurious life. Although they were good experiences, he couldn’t stay there forever in order to reach enlightenment.
9. Siddhartha display his “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen through gambling. He found gambling and getting money amusing and starts to get the idea of greed.
10. He described life as a game looking at how normal people suffers then dies. The materialistic world and the world of love with Kamala taught you pleasure but he couldn’t live like that forever to reach enlightenment. Though the 20years he spent in those world was a precious experience. I agree with Siddhartha with the idea of Samsara because it is true that you get bored with the things you have and will desire to have a better thing and that goes on and on and those things leads you to suffering .
Awakening
ReplyDelete1. I took lots of lessons when I was in elementary. Therefore, I had lots of teachers that taught me lots of stuffs that I didn’t know. How ever, they are “human” and had limits that they could teach to me. As Siddhartha said, at the last, it is up to me to actually understand things. That is why I think there are things that we should learn by our selves.
Kamala
2. As Siddhartha said, people learn something new on every step of his/her path. I think even a single thing can be a new step. Although I’m still 16, I learnt lots of things every day. Obviously, I changed a lot comparing to when I was born, but at the same time, my surroundings changed. Everything changes in each second, and since time never stops, things are changing right now too.
3. “She drew him over to her with her eyes, he lowered his face to hers, and placed his lips on those lips that were like a newly opened fig.” (Hermann32)
This is one of the excerpts from Kamala that refer to the awakening of Siddhartha’s sexuality. Which, this was when he had a first kiss with Kamala.
Amongst the People
4. In my book, the title of this chapter is “With the Child-People.” This title serves as a summary for this entire section because it tells how Siddhartha spent after the Awakening. He started to interact with the Child-people and learn love by Kamala and the eagerness of wealth that he did not experienced before.
5. It was an irony in which Kamaswami becoming a role model for Siddhartha. This was because Siddhartha believed in thinking, waiting, and fasting, which was antithesis from Kamaswami’s belief. After Siddhartha started to get wealthy, Kamaswami started to become a role model for him.
6. Siddhartha believe that it was Kamala who taught him the value and meaning of his present life, not Kamaswami, This was because although Kamaswami taught him things such as “how much a basket of fish costs,”(Hermann38) this was not the knowledge that Siddhartha wanted to have. “Kamaswami was never able to convince his associate that it was a useful thing to utter words of concern or anger,” (Hermann38).
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7. Siddhartha is separated from the “people of the world” because he is different than the other people. Comparing to other people he did not let him self enjoy things that others did. This was because he believed that rather than eating good foods and entertaining, fasting was the right way.
8. Materialistic aspects of “the world” made his soul heavy and tired. Since he was one of the wealthy people at first, his eagerness toward the wealth slowly came back. Though, he couldn’t spend his life like other people because he had to reach enlightenment.
9. By gambling Siddhartha display his “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen.” After he started to gamble, he gained lots of money, which caused him to be more eager to get rich.
10. Siddhartha thinks Samsara as a game. This is because he thinks that life is a game, and although there are positive things in the life, it won’t continue for his whole life. I kind of agree with Siddhartha, because I also think that repeating an enjoyable thing will cause me to think it is boring.
Awakening
ReplyDelete1. I took lots of lessons when I was in elementary. Therefore, I had lots of teachers that taught me lots of stuffs that I didn’t know. How ever, they are “human” and had limits that they could teach to me. As Siddhartha said, at the last, it is up to me to actually understand things. That is why I think there are things that we should learn by our selves.
Kamala
2. As Siddhartha said, people learn something new on every step of his/her path. I think even a single thing can be a new step. Although I’m still 16, I learnt lots of things every day. Obviously, I changed a lot comparing to when I was born, but at the same time, my surroundings changed. Everything changes in each second, and since time never stops, things are changing right now too.
3. “She drew him over to her with her eyes, he lowered his face to hers, and placed his lips on those lips that were like a newly opened fig.” (Hermann32)
This is one of the excerpts from Kamala that refer to the awakening of Siddhartha’s sexuality. Which, this was when he had a first kiss with Kamala.
Amongst the People
4. In my book, the title of this chapter is “With the Child-People.” This title serves as a summary for this entire section because it tells how Siddhartha spent after the Awakening. He started to interact with the Child-people and learn love by Kamala and the eagerness of wealth that he did not experienced before.
5. It was an irony in which Kamaswami becoming a role model for Siddhartha. This was because Siddhartha believed in thinking, waiting, and fasting, which was antithesis from Kamaswami’s belief. After Siddhartha started to get wealthy, Kamaswami started to become a role model for him.
6. Siddhartha believe that it was Kamala who taught him the value and meaning of his present life, not Kamaswami, This was because although Kamaswami taught him things such as “how much a basket of fish costs,”(Hermann38) this was not the knowledge that Siddhartha wanted to have. “Kamaswami was never able to convince his associate that it was a useful thing to utter words of concern or anger,” (Hermann38).
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7. Siddhartha is separated from the “people of the world” because he is different than the other people. Comparing to other people he did not let him self enjoy things that others did. This was because he believed that rather than eating good foods and entertaining, fasting was the right way.
8. Materialistic aspects of “the world” made his soul heavy and tired. Since he was one of the wealthy people at first, his eagerness toward the wealth slowly came back. Though, he couldn’t spend his life like other people because he had to reach enlightenment.
9. By gambling Siddhartha display his “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen.” After he started to gamble, he gained lots of money, which caused him to be more eager to get rich.
10. Siddhartha thinks Samsara as a game. This is because he thinks that life is a game, and although there are positive things in the life, it won’t continue for his whole life. I kind of agree with Siddhartha, because I also think that repeating an enjoyable thing will cause me to think it is boring.
1. Although education is a tool everyone should be thankful of, I believe in the limit of education’s ability to make students smarter. Studying and learning from classes can achieve “Smartness”, but wisdom and skills can only be gained from experience. For example, we are never going to be taught in school how to pass a job interview or how to keep a job—one must learn from experiencing a job interview and working. These abilities are essential to life, yet they are not taught in school.
ReplyDelete2. When I had suddenly matured because of family issues, I suddenly saw how childish and immature my classmates were. Just the day before, I had been joking and agreeing with them that it wasn’t “cool” to wear a certain clothing brand, but the very next day, when the same discussion was brought up by the same people, I couldn’t overcome my deep feeling of disgust. For the longest time I couldn’t accept the fact that they were more immature than me, but now I realize that it wasn’t their faults, they had not changed, I had.
3. During his first meeting with Kamala, when prompted by her that she was not afraid of a foolish Samana, Siddhartha responds by saying “Oh he’s strong, the Samana, and he isn’t afraid of anything. He could force you, beautiful girl. He could kidnap you. He could hurt you” (Hesse 39). A true Samana would not consider anything sexual. However Siddhartha begins considering what he could do. If he had not had thoughts of kidnapping or hurting Kamala, he would not be able to conceive such a comment.
4. In “With the Childlike People,” Siddhartha begins his life among the city people under Kamala’s orders. He slowly drifts into their lives, becomes one with their ways, and loses his ability to “think, wait and fast.” He claims that the others are childlike in their petty game of dramatic life, but he becomes one of the children.
5. Kamaswami represents greed, lust, anger, impatience, and material possessions. The irony in Siddhartha following Kamaswami as a role model is that they are polar opposites. Siddhartha, as a Samana, would have shunned such emotions and the thought of a teacher with fasting and thinking, but he chooses to follow and learn his ways, in the name of love.
6. Kamala was the reason behind Siddhartha’s visiting of Kamaswami, therefore he accredits everything to her. Also, Kamala gives Siddhartha feelings, both physical and emotional, that he has never felt before in his life as a Samana. Because she is the cause of his actions to live among the childlike people, he gives her credit for all things learned in the city.
7. Despite his resemblance of the childlike people, Siddhartha is still unable to imitate their joys of loving people. He only copies their hate, sloth, anger, greed, and negative emotions and actions. He envies their ability to feel joy, yet he still feels superior to them, because he does not feel their feelings. He thus builds his own wall between himself and the people.
ReplyDelete8. The moisture is represents the seven deadly sins that slowly fill people’s hearts without their knowing. People’s hearts are weak when dry and empty, and it thirsts for any kind of relief, like a dying trunk craves moisture. When they are finally satiated, usually, the moisture and sin will have completely taken over their hearts to a point where there is no cure, like a rotten trunk.
9. Siddhartha displays his love and hate for riches by gambling. He would bet massive sums of money and lose it at the drop of a die, and work only to gamble his pay away once more. In order to gain the same thrill, each time he must put greater and greater sums of money at stake because of his accumulation of contempt.
10. Siddhartha believes that Samsara is a game because the childlike people play their silly games to achieve it. I partially agree with Siddhartha, in the sense that most people like to lead lives filled with self-created drama, and that this act seems foolish to me. However, I can’t agree that reincarnation is a game because I believe there’s no way out of it, and since all games have an end with winners and losers, reincarnation cannot be a game.
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ReplyDelete7.Siddhartha was still separated from the “people of the world” the reason is because Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen for a long time, despite the fact that, not having, experiencing or showing something being a part of it. His senses, which he had killed off in the heat of his years as a Samana, had to wake up again.
8.I think the moisture be a member of group of people and act or speak on their behalf at an event and a meeting.To moderate living,the joys of thinking, hours of the practice of thinking deeply in silence, especially for religious reasons or in order to make their mind,unknown knowledge of the self and of his lasting or existing forever and something that exists seperately from other things and has its own identity, which is neither body nor aware. He had keep many part of this, but one part after another had been suppress and now gathered dust.
9.Siddhartha displays his "contempt for riches" and "the false deity of businessmen" by the activity of playing games of chance for money and bettiing on horses.He felt not in a straight line by joy in to waste money,also measured in minutes, hours,day or time and a large amount of money, property that a person or country owns.
10.Samsara was created the games.To watching at in what way or manner people to be badly affected by a disease,pain,sadness,a lack of something then yo stop living.I am agree with Siddhartha with the plan thought or suggestion, especially about what to do in a particular situation of Samsara because it is true that we get tired with the things you have and will a strong wish to have or do something.
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1. Siddhartha asked to himself about this question since he was wise person. I have never considered this deep question as Siddhartha did. I learn things from teachers and teachings, but that is it for me. Probably I was dumb, and never viewd things deepely enough as Siddhartha did.
2. I think I have felt the similar way as Siddhartha did. Sometimes when the wheather is tremendously beautiful, I see every nature beautiful. Too beautiful that things look unreal, that does not belong to this world. Also,I have no idea why this happens, but sometimes everything looks weird. I am not sure if this is my eye or feeling. When ever this happens, time goes extremely fast. I can see everything clearly, but somewhat something was weird. Even though I see the world untilted and stable, I feel like I am seeing the world tilted
about twenty degrees.Everything looks unreal when this happens. The reality transforms to world, like the world inside the mirror. I think this is myself that is changing.
3. "Siddhartha felt his blood heating up" (Hesse 36). When Kamala provoke Siddhartha to have sexual pleasure. Siddhartha feels blood heating up, which is the singh of sexual awakening.
4. In the chapter, Siddhartha meets many pepole, and make his friends. He takes great presure in the pepole around him. Siddhartha gets socialized, and will gain more touch among people. Siddhartha becomes more humanlike. Experienciing love and gamble.
5. "they had already filled his expecting vessel with their richness, and the vessel was not
full, the spirit was not content, the soul was not calm, the heart was not satisfied" (Hesse 6)
Even though Siddhartha is surrounded by luxuries, he was not satisfied, and since he wants his inner peace, he gets out from his village. Later Siddhartha's role model becomes Kamaswami, who is a wealthy greedy merchant. This is ironic, because Kamaswami's position was pretty much similar as Siddhartha's previous position which he was not satisfied.
6. Siddhartha loved Kamala, and Kamala taught him awakening of sexuality and love which he has not experienced before. Siddhartha visits Kamal almost everyday, and probably he learns many things if he visits her daily. Kamala is the one who first asked Siddhartha do get job and earn money. From this, he starts to work and since he does not take business serious, and Kamaswami is not that important person for Siddhartha.
7.Siddhartha feels different and exclued. He felt his life dull even though he has enough
money. Siddhartha has beeen trained in Semmana, and can determine by himself how much he has
changed. He can probably predict that what he is doing now is not the right thing, and will not bring the inner peace. He probably feels different because he knows.
8. Soul is heavy and tired from Siddhartha's change. As I said in the seventh question,he know the difference between the greedy world and ungreedy world. He can discern which is the right path, though since he is trapped into the greed, it is hard to get out.
9. In this chapter Siddhartha will gamble. An act of gamblings gives extreme hate toward riches when they loose in the game and loose money that used to belong to yourself. Businessman usually holds the stress in them. When people are stressed, they tries to escape from the reality, and one of it is the gambling.
10. Siddhartha even see his business as a game, and he thinks this way and I think this is because he wants to escape from the reality, and do not want to take things in serious way.
6. The reason why Siddhartha chose to visit Kamaswani, was because he wanted to stay where Kamala was. Kamala, the only woman he thought that was beautiful in this world. Siddhartha thought that Kamala had already thought him three things that he needed, and a love that he never felt before.
ReplyDelete7. Siddhartha was separate from other people because he had skills that the other people around him, did not, and that skills are things that he learned by Samanas and Gotama. Not only that, but also a positive, kind, and love that he had in his heart, even though he had changed, he still had an each pieces of them in his heart. Therefore, that is way he was still separated from other people.
8. I think the people and their lifestyle had put him down and made him tired. What I mean is that, he believed that being with them, and living a life like them would help him from suffering, but it actually made him, does things for the other people, and made him live a life like them, which did not fit him. Also, because it did not fit him, he could not feel free, relaxed in a way that he did in his home.
9. Siddhartha display his “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen through gambling. This gambling, made him feel lighter and made him think of becoming richer than he is know, whenever he loses a game, he worries, just because of the money.
10. Siddhartha describes the Samsaras as games because he thinks everything in his life is a game, to play, enjoy and repeat them again, which they do it, to keep themselves away from suffering. I do think, that taking things easy and try to forget the bad news, makes you feel better, and you feel like you have been enjoyed more than being thinking about them so deep and seriously.
6) Siddhartha values the things that he cared about, and then things that he cared about gave him meaning and objective. He did not value anything Kamaswami had taught him simply because he did not care about what he was being taught. In Siddhartha’s perspective, he valued the art of love that Kamala was teaching him much more then anything else that he was being taught. Therefore it would be natural for Kamala’s to give him purpose and direction.
ReplyDelete7) Siddhartha differs from the “people of the world” in the fact that he does not value earthly things. Also, he differes in the fact that he can’t love like “normal” people can. He sees love as more of a game or a fulfiller.
8) I think that the materialistic things, along with the habits that he had come accustomed to such as gambling and partying were causing Siddhartha’s soul to grow heavy. I do not think these habits he adopted were intentional, but that they grew on him over the years.
9) Siddhartha shows his “contempt for riches” through the gambling that he was involved in. In a since, gambling is like Samsara. It is a drug. Once one has a “taste” of what it is like, one will only want more and more.
10) Siddhartha believes that everything in this world is a game. That would be the cause of his perspective on Samsara. I do not agree with this perspective. I believe that life is anything but a game. And I believe that Samsara is a “God designed” thing that allows humans to reproduce.
Daniel Snow B1
1. In some ways I feel that I have learned more from my 5th grade teacher than from all the other teachers I have had put together. Throughout my academic life I have come across many teachers that some consider “great” and “knowledgeable” however, I do not feel that their “greatness” really counts for much unless they are able to inspire passion and greatness within their students. I want to learn how to be inspired about learning and learn what I want to learn rather than just memorize facts of things I do not care for.
ReplyDelete2. I feel that the world generally does change, but I believe that when I look around and notice that something that is different, it is due to my own transformation. I believe that the world seems transformed because of the transformation of the way I look upon the world. The trees in the park do not shift positions and become more magical looking, we simply begin to see the trees though a more magical perspective.
3. “She drew him over to her with her eyes, he lowered his face to hers, and placed his lips on those lips that were like a newly opened fig” (Hermann Hesse 32). In this quote we see that Siddhartha is leading the situation by “lowering his face to hers” therefore he obviously is expressing his sexual attraction towards Kamala, therefore we can continue on to say that this was his “sexual awakening. This quote is from the scene in which Kamala and Siddhartha first express their sexuality towards each other and Kamala’s lips are described as a “newly opened fig” which could have a connection to the “forbidden fruit” expressed in the story of Adam and Eve. As well as that the scene is expressed in a much more sensual and sexual matter rather than a rough affair, showing that there was a deeper level of connection between the two characters.
4. The title of the chapter in my book is actually With the Child-like People so I’ll discuss that title instead. Because Kamala, the woman he desires to teach him about love, expresses that she will only be with him if he was to become wealthy man and presented her with gifts so Siddhartha did just that. He becomes involved in the business world and at first sees all the surrounding business men as immature because they are all incredibly engrossed in their, what Siddhartha believes to be, a petty, child-like game of collecting money in order to become wealthy and poses which Siddhartha ironically gets sucked into and becomes quite successful.
5. While Siddhartha was amongst the Samanas he valued thinking, fasting and waiting, all of which were disregarded by Kamaswami. This we find ironic because the values of fasting, waiting and thinking were all held very highly by Siddhartha, then he quickly moves on to respect Kamaswami, a man who values the material and wealth, the things that Siddhartha had previously tried so hard to rid himself of.
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ReplyDelete1. In some ways I feel that I have learned more from my 5th grade teacher than from all the other teachers I have had put together. Throughout my academic life I have come across many teachers that some consider “great” and “knowledgeable” however, I do not feel that their “greatness” really counts for much unless they are able to inspire passion and greatness within their students. I want to learn how to be inspired about learning and learn what I want to learn rather than just memorize facts of things I do not care for.
ReplyDelete2. I feel that the world generally does change, but I believe that when I look around and notice that something that is different, it is due to my own transformation. I believe that the world seems transformed because of the transformation of the way I look upon the world. The trees in the park do not shift positions and become more magical looking, we simply begin to see the trees though a more magical perspective.
3. “She drew him over to her with her eyes, he lowered his face to hers, and placed his lips on those lips that were like a newly opened fig” (Hermann Hesse 32). In this quote we see that Siddhartha is leading the situation by “lowering his face to hers” therefore he obviously is expressing his sexual attraction towards Kamala, therefore we can continue on to say that this was his “sexual awakening. This quote is from the scene in which Kamala and Siddhartha first express their sexuality towards each other and Kamala’s lips are described as a “newly opened fig” which could have a connection to the “forbidden fruit” expressed in the story of Adam and Eve. As well as that the scene is expressed in a much more sensual and sexual matter rather than a rough affair, showing that there was a deeper level of connection between the two characters.
4. The title of the chapter in my book is actually With the Child-like People so I’ll discuss that title instead. Because Kamala, the woman he desires to teach him about love, expresses that she will only be with him if he was to become wealthy man and presented her with gifts so Siddhartha did just that. He becomes involved in the business world and at first sees all the surrounding business men as immature because they are all incredibly engrossed in their, what Siddhartha believes to be, a petty, child-like game of collecting money in order to become wealthy and poses which Siddhartha ironically gets sucked into and becomes quite successful.
ReplyDelete5. While Siddhartha was amongst the Samanas he valued thinking, fasting and waiting, all of which were disregarded by Kamaswami. This we find ironic because the values of fasting, waiting and thinking were all held very highly by Siddhartha, then he quickly moves on to respect Kamaswami, a man who values the material and wealth, the things that Siddhartha had previously tried so hard to rid himself of.
6. Siddhartha belives that he has been taught the value and meaning of his present life by Kamala rather than Kamaswami. While Kamaswami taught him what the worth a basket of fish was and similar simple statistics as well as other financial and business knowledge, Siddhartha felt that the knowledge was not relevant to the deeper meaning of life like the knowledge he had attained from his love affair with kamala was.
7. Siddhartha was still separate from the “people of the world” because he had experienced and seen more than he assumed the ordinary people had. He put himself apart from them because he saw them as ignorant to the true emotions in the world; he believed that they did not understand what joy really was and what it really was to suffer. He felt that his emotions were out of the universe, on a completely different plane than those he saw around him.
8. The materialism of the world is what I believe to be weighing Siddhartha down. He becomes sucked into the life of luxury, his world slowing beginning to revolve around the material rather than the true feelings he was venturing to discover and completely and fully attain. The materialism of his new lifestyle weighs him down into one place, making him connected to objects outside of himself, an aberration from his original goal. When he begins his venture into the world, Siddhartha seeks understanding and to be free, however, he begins to feel attached to the new accessories of his new life style, weighing him, his mind and his soul down.
ReplyDelete9. Through gambling Siddhartha displays his contempt for riches and false deity of businessmen. By means of gambling Siddhartha throws away his money, in a strange manner, yet the intention is still present. He attains a sick mindset, not unlike the other businessmen, for the need to spend the money, through gambling, the money is spent and lost intentionally, satisfying himself in a strange way.
10. Samsara is described as a game because it is just that, it’s a cycle of birth life and death going on and on and on, much like monopoly. As you continue on through the game, you go about collecting properties and getting more money but in reality, the properties are really just printed cards and the money is paper and has no value. To reach the enlightenment that I believe Siddhartha was looking for, is to realize that it is all only a game, there is no winning or losing, no matter what, the game will end and everything and everyone will be put away on a shelf and no one will think anything of it until it gets pulled out and played again. Reading from the perspective in the book, I understand how Samsara could be considered a game, but I believe that even though it may be a game there are certain valued meanings and lessons to be learned throughout such as love and joy and other dire emotions to be experienced.
1. I've always believed that there's a limit to what school can teach you, and that a lot of the things that you'd come to depend upon later in life comes from experience, like learning from a mistake. There are lessons that someone could 'tell' you about, but must be experienced by yourself to truly learn from it.
ReplyDelete2. As I grow older, some thoughts and feelings change or disappear, and I may start seeing things differently. I believe that it is me who is changing, and although I may appreciate the difference, I think I don't really stop to acknowledge these new insights, for I've always felt that its simply another part of growing up.
3. Siddarth's dream is a result of his unconcious awakening of lust for "it tasted of woman and man, of sun and forest, of animal and flower, of every fruit, of every desire. It intoxicated him and rendered him unconscious" (Hesse 35). It seemed to me as though he had reached the point in his life when he starts to become aware of the opposite gender. However, due the teachings he has received, he is unaware of this 'awakening', until he physically comes across a female he is attracted to.
4.The title 'With the child-like people' summarizes this section since unlike the previous ones, he spends the majority of his time with people whom he interacts with, casting his self-denial, meditating self aside. The 'child-like' probably refers to the fact that they are childish in the way that they obsess over clothing, status and wealth, rather than on the aspects of life that Siddartha had considered important before.
5. It is ironic since Kamaswami lives the lifestyle that Siddartha had left behind in order to pursue his goal. As Siddartha stated "I can think. I can wait. I can fast" (Hesse 46), he believed that this was 'everything', and nothing else was needed, compared to Kamaswami who desires to have everything he can get.
6. Siddartha doesn't have the same passion for trade as Kamaswami does, and although he learns of many tactics for buisness, he has no use for this knowledge except to earn money for Kamala. He sees Kamala as an individual who is similar to himself, and one who found peace and refuge within herself. He admires this, and wishes to find this within himself, thus considers her teachings as valuable in order to achieve this goal.
1. Education is very important that everyone should take. I learned so many things at school, such as math, history, and literature. However, sometimes, in history class, there is specific information. I learned lots of things from my history, but something is missing. Usually, there are huge gaps between each period. I wish I could learn specific information.
ReplyDelete2. I have felt this before. Every time when I learn something, I feel extremely happy. It feels like I can predict my future and rule the world. For example, when I learn new steps for math, I feel smarter and the world becomes easier. Things around have changed as well. Because I feel great, I feel like everything is great too.
3. “‘… No, not a drop of sweetness shall I lose from your lips, nor you from mine! So this is how it stands: Siddhartha will return when he has what now lacks: clothes, shoes, money. But tell me, lovely Kamala, can you give me another small piece of advice?’” (Hesse 31).
4. Siddhartha meets many different people and makes many friends in Kamala’s city in this chapter. Instead of following himself, he started to follow how the people in the village live.
5. It is extremely ironic that Kamswami becomes the role model of Siddhartha. Siddhartha was thinking about his own philosophy; in contrast, Kamswami thinks about how hard he works for his job. In addition, Kamswami was wealthy, unlike Siddhartha.
6. Siddhartha has learned many things from Kamala. He has never experienced love, but now, because of Kamala, he has learned so many things about love. “Business was good for making money that he could spend on Kamala, and he made much more at it than he needed” (Hesse 38). Because of Kamala, it inspired Siddhartha to work harder.
7. Siddhartha is still separated from the people of the world because he thinks that things that people around him do is not enjoyable to him. Siddhartha now has enough food and money to live but still unhappy with his life.
8. I think too many materials will make Siddhartha extremely tired. He has experienced life with lots of money, as a son of Brahmin. The reason why he left his family is because he got sick of living in a wealth family, so lots of things will make him very tired.
9. Siddhartha shoes his contempt of riches and the false deity of businessmen by gambling. Even though he losses the game, at the same time, he also gains money as well.
10. Siddhartha believes that Samsara is a game. He thinks that life is like a game. I definitely agree with Siddhartha. I also think that life a game. People do some good things within their lives, and some people do bad things during their lives
1. Although education is essential for success and necessary for living a good life, it has its limits. Lessons taught in schools are filled with facts, theories and concepts that we must memorize and learn to help us prepare for the ever demanding, highly technological world today, but many of the facts we learn are almost always forgotten in a few years. I’ve learnt details about US history that only historians would know, and indeed I had forgotten those details within a few months after learning them. School can not teach us the true value behind having these knowledge; we have to find the lessons meaningful to us individually. There are things that only time and experience could teach us in our lives, and this is proven true as some street children are better negotiators than college graduates.
ReplyDelete2. Many times in my life I have experienced the sensation of perceiving the world to be completely transformed. This is because I have changed as a person through time and have had different psychological states at certain times. For example, when I accomplish something great I become excited and I feel invincible and feel like I’m on top of the world. Everything around me looks and feels good and I feel very optimistic.The environment doesn’t change, the change occurs in the person, and when that happens the world is viewed differently as a consequence.
3. Kamala says to Siddhartha, “You are the best lover, I ever saw. You’re stronger than others, more supple, and more willing. You’ve learned my art well, Siddhartha” (Hesse 51). From this quote we can imply that Siddhartha and Kamala had sexual intercourse and for the first time, Siddhartha tastes the feeling of lust. His sexuality as a man is finally awakened.
4. The title, “With the Childlike People” can stand as a summary for the entire section, because Siddhartha spends a lot of time in the village in this section, interacting with the villagers whom he calls childish. Keeping his way of thinking as a Samana, his perspective on life is different from the other villagers, such as Kamaswami, and Kamala. Living in Kamaswami’s house as a merchant, he doesn’t understand the value behind money and pleasure and attaining honor, and calls business childish.
5. It was ironic how Kamaswami became a role model for Siddhartha, who believed in thinking, waiting, and fasting. Thinking, waiting and fasting are values that are the antithesis of what Kamaswami stands for, and Siddhartha gradually forgot them as he spent time in the village.
7. I think this is because of the difference in their values. He still had followed his belief that 'everything' consisted of thinking, fasting and waiting, compared to his surroundings who find content in materialism and love.
ReplyDelete8. His soul, which he thought he had 'cleansed free' from all unnecessary desires and emotions were slowly being filled up once again. "He had tasted riches, had tasted lust, had tasted power" (Hesse 52). Since he had ridden himself of these aspects, his soul had been lighter. Now that these have entered his life again, they tire out his soul, which had been used to the simplistic lifestyle Siddartha had lived.
9. He displays this through his obsession with gambling, his tightening hold over his buisness, and his uncontrollable desire for money. He gambles away thousands, enjoying the joy, anger and fear he feels when he plays the game of dice. He becomes strict with business matters and dreams about money, which show his increasing consciousness about his wealth.
10. Siddartha's goal is to reach enlightenment and break free from the cycle of life (Samsara). Thus, Samsara is simply a 'game' he takes part in, until the time he can learn to gain something of greater value. Siddartha feels that going through this cycle becomes redundant and boring, and that he cannot keep on being another player in this game. Since I can't predict the future, and since I believe that my current life is 'one-shot', I try to make the most of it, thus disagree with Siddartha's views.
Seiya B2
ReplyDelete1. Although I am thankful that I can get education, not all what I learn would actually beneficial. Even if school teaches you the theory; it could never go over the teaching from experience. Especially by mistakes.
2. I think I have not yet experience that kind of feeling Siddhartha got. But I have definitely felt that reality changed. Just two month ago, when we wore power ranger suites downtown, I felt everything changed around me. The surrounding is normal Susukino, but I felt as if the surrounding transformed. Where I felt more eyes than ever before.
3. “For a long time, Kamala kissed him…Breathing deeply, he remained standing where he was, and was in this moment astonished like a child about the cornucopia of knowledge and things worth learning”(Hesse 41).
This quote shows the awakening of Siddhartha’s sexuality. How he is deeply affected from the first kiss with Kamala. From this on Siddhartha eagerly learns about love, as he once did under the Samanas.
4. I can’t answer the question because the chapter title is “With the Childlike People.”
5. It is ironic how Kamaswami become a role model of Siddhartha is that his Samana belief of “thinking, waiting and fasting” is the total opposite of what Kamaswani believes. Kamaswami only valued monetary profit, which this stands in the perfect opposite of Samana teaching.
6. For Kamala, Siddhartha worked under Kamaswami. He only thought of working as a game and not much learning came from it. But Kamala taught him both physically and emotionally. Something that Siddhartha never new before.
7. Although he socialized with everyone there was something that separated him from everyone else. This was influenced by the fact that he had been a Samana. That past continues on to influence him and he could not move forward. Even if he tried to blend into the “childlike” community, he is alone.
8. I think that the material possession and physical comfort is what making the soul of Siddhartha tired and heavy. He does not listen to his inner voice, where in the past he used to do. Know that his life is centered on material world; his true goal is deeply sunk down in his soul and mind. He has forgotten how he used to look everything from the lens of an outsider. Where know he is part of it.
9. Siddhartha displays his “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen” by gambling. He is now eager to get wealthy. But bets thousands of to gambling and lose most of it. Yet still not to learn from that, he earns more money and uses more on gambling.
10. Sansara is described as a game because it is just one part of a cycle of reincarnation. To break the cycle of reincarnation (to finish the game) is the ultimate goal. I don’t believe in reincarnation, but I believe that all experience is important. I believe that everyone has a purpose to be born on Earth at this certain time. And all experiences are necessary, but letting experiences just go by would be a game. Learning from experiences is what is important. I’m just disagreeing with reincarnation, kind of.
6. Kamaswami only taught Siddhartha the materialistic values of life as a businessman, while Kamala was able to show him and be an instructor for him on the emotional values of life that Siddhartha respects. “He came back to beautiful Kamala, learned the art of love, practiced the cult of lust...learned from her, gave her advice, received advice. She understood him better than Govinda used to understand him, she was more similar to him” (Hesse 50). Siddhartha learned valuable life lessons from Kamala through their deep connection with each other.
ReplyDelete7. Siddhartha inevitably had to separate himself from the people of the world and alienate himself because he was a samana, and his views on life are completely different from those of the ordinary people. His goal is to reach enlightenment and so Siddhartha can not certainly act like them or think like them. His ascetic life style was something he could not leave behind or deny. His relationship with Kamala was deep but they were never in love, they couldn’t be.
8. The materialistic values of the world combined with the torpid lifestyle ordinary people lived made Siddhartha’s soul heavy and tired. As Siddhartha became wealthy when spending his time with the childlike people, he experienced a sluggish life style which was comfortable and easy. His wealth made him a hedonist, someone he certainly did not want to be as one trying to reach nirvana. His guilt at what he’d done made his soul tired and heavy.
9. Siddhartha displays his contempt towards the riches he gains and “the false deity of businessmen” by gambling and virtually throwing his money away in this manner. In his mind, Siddhartha thinks gambling is a way to erase and rid himself of his ‘sins’ which are wealth and pleasure. The businessman usually enjoys gambling and so there is a contradiction in Siddhartha’s method of showing disdain.
10. Samsara is described as a game because it repeats the process of life and death and people try to real the goal through materialistic gains and pleasure during the game which is their life. I do not agree with Siddhartha’s view of samsara being a game, since reincarnation can not be taken as a ‘game’, it is infinite and no game can last for ever.
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ReplyDeleteIn this quote, Siddhartha feels wealth, lust and power overcoming his once simplistic life as a samana. Siddhartha compares his former samana soul to a dried out potters wheel coming to a halt; it will spin for some time however if not used it will eventually dry out and stop. In other words, Siddhartha feels as though he is losing his self to a life that he feels is not fit for him.
ReplyDeleteSiddhartha displays his “contempt for riches” and “false deity of businessmen” by gambling. Siddhartha takes up gambling as a way to receive momentary pleasure in throwing away and gaining back his riches. By putting something of such value at risk, Siddhartha is showing his contempt for it. This may make him seem as a “false god” to merchants in that although he is able to win great amounts of money he is just as capable of losing it.
Samsara is a cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth again. This cycle Siddhartha describes as being a game in that although for a while it is fun to dwell in, its fun eventually exhausts its self eventually making you feel bored and bound to it “In this pointless cycle…” (Hesse 55). With that Siddhartha feels as though he must seek inner peace or a break from this cycle through other things. I don’t not agree with Siddhartha’s view of Samsara in that most things, no matter how interesting/fun/liked at some point, become tiring and old. However, I do not agree with his views on Samsara as pertaining to life and death in that I believe that life is, will, or at least should constantly change and with that it shouldn’t/wont grow old.
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ReplyDelete6.Siddhartha did not care much for being a great merchant like Kamaswami other than to earn money so that his love affair with Kamala could continue. It was Kamala that taught him of love, women and the experiences that he had never felt before. Kamala was also like a friend to him, who he could feel comfortable around with.
ReplyDelete7.Siddhartha felt like he was still separated from the people of the world because he did not truly feel contented even having everything. He had prosperity, had tasted sensual delights, had friends and power yet he felt isolated. The teachings of samana, the art of thinking, waiting, fasting remained in his heart and was what truly directed his life. The experience of being a samana will always separate him from the ordinary people.
8.Siddhartha had transformed to a man of materialism during his long stay in Samsara. He had begun to forget about the teachings of the samanas and Gotama care for money, luxury goods, possessions and was tempted with sensual desires. He even began to gamble and drink. Without realizing it, he had become just another one of the drunkards, lovers and gamblers and had fallen into the world of desires. These things made his soul heavy and uneasy.
9.Siddhartha had fallen into gambling for money and possessions of high value in a way to display his “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen”. He played for high stakes and came to own an avarice heart full of thoughts of money. He became impatient for the addicting gambling game each day that had become part of his life.
10. “in fact, this whole world of Kamaswami-people had been just a game to him, a dance that you watch, a comedy”...”Were they not playing a game that had no end? Was it necessary to go on living for that?” (Hesse 45). Siddhartha, after all these years of living in the so called game, finally woke up. He realized that by attempting to find pleasure in life, he had become poorer and more wretched than he had ever been. He lost the voice that had one been in him that told him of his goals in life, the voice that pushed him forward. He felt like he all these years he had wasted in Samsara had just been a game, without learning or gaining knowledge, just repeating the same life over and over again. I partly agree and also disagree with this statement . I think it is still possible to learn and gain knowledge even in a communal society, in fact, without people around you, you can not grow up and learn. I feel like Siddhartha's too arrogant in putting everyone below him and believing in no one but himself. Perhaps Samsara was just a game to him, but it also taught him of several important things in life that allowed him to realize what he was able to.
1. I do feel that current education will not satisfy the desire I want to learn, because what we learn in the school seems like it’s far from how I want to be prepared for the future ahead of me. The information I am learning in the subjects such as geometry and biology will not make my life any better, I am reluctantly force myself to learn it just to get grades. It seems pointless and waste of time to me.
ReplyDelete2. I believe how you feel the world is completely depends on the way you see the world, therefore even if the reality has not changed a thing, you can feel the transformation if you change your mindset. I get really frustrated when my parents scold me for my bad behavior, but if I remind of myself their love toward me, I become more relaxed.
3. “Siddhartha also felt desire and felt the source of his sexuality moving; but since he had never touched a woman before, he hesitated for a moment, while his hands were already prepared to reach out for her.” (Hesse 36) Siddhartha had awakened of his sexuality for he first time, and he knew how nervous he was. Although it is natural for human beings to feel sex drive, he took precautions that he should not feel that way.
4. The title “with the childlike people” can sum up the whole section of this because Siddhartha came to think that it was really childish how villagers were obsessed with the wealth and social status, not in themselves.
5. Siddhartha valued his philosophy that thinking, waiting and fasting were all he had, and he was proud that he was able to do it. Whereas Kamaswami, who was the role model for Siddhartha, was one of those “childlike people” he met in the village.
6. Siddhartha believed that it was Kamula, who had found the value and meaning of her present life, not Kamaswami, because she has found “nothing else, and inside of you (Kamula), there is a peace and refuge , to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself (Kumula herself).” (Hesse 50) To Siddhartha, Kamaswami was nothing but just one of those childlike people in the village compare to Kamula who had found a place in her to be herself.
7. Siddhartha found himself separated and aliened from “people of the world,” because he could not find joy and happiness from what childlike people found theirs. He believed that what he was waiting for was not “content with small lustful pleasures,” (Hesse 57) but being truly satisfied.
8. What made Siddhartha’s soul heavy and tired was imitation that rich people had, and he could bear it no more and he felt it was not possible to think. “Those features which are so often found in the faces of rich people, those features of discontent, of sickliness, of ill-humour, of sloth, of a lack of love. Slowly the disease of the soul, which rich people have, grabbed hold of him.” (Hesse 53)
9. Siddhartha displayed his contempt for riches and the false deity of businessmen through intense gambling that he had lost and won a lot of times. He was exhilarated how he felt terrifying fear and something like happiness at the same time while he was gambling.
10. Siddhartha regarded Samsara, so-called the afterlife-cycle, as a game because it had a never-ending story that would go forever. Although I believe in reincarnation in some extent, I strongly disagree with him that the life is an endless boring game. I am sick of Siddhartha’s pessimistic view on everything and how he looks down at people as if he knows everything
1) From my studies, I think there is a lot that they cannot teach us. I think in school the teachers are just guiding us to over future, and from the guide their might be problems. And maybe this sort of things they can’t really help us on.
ReplyDelete2) I think my height, is something I realize changed. For example my legs used to be not passing the bed, but after one night, my leg past it. I think that is something that I realized changed.
3) “At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling his close to his chest and kissed”(Hesse 35). Although this was not at the around the area, it really convey sexuality.
4) With the child like people, for me the title summarizes part of the story where, Siddhartha became more human like. He is human like because he changed, from a person who is devoted to the religion, to a person who had loved someone, and do things people do today.
5) The ironic part to Siddhartha action is he was opposite to Kamaswami. Kamaswami was a type of person who does bad things. But Siddhartha was more to a peaceful man by he is always thinking, waiting and fasting. The ironic part to it, is when Siddhartha became rich, he became like Kamaswami.
6) Kamala had taught Siddhartha the value and meaning of his present life, and Kamaswami had also aught Siddhartha knowledge to. But the knowledge that Kamaswami taught Siddhartha was unnecessary.
7) Siddhartha is differ than other people because he life was not as average as everyone. He was taught to be enlightened. He didn't have the joy of having fun and be more free spirited, he’s always devoted to the religion.
8) I think he’s past life of being wealthy had made him not so much as him self. As he meditated on, he soul was heavy. I think, it's a feeling that he liked, and don't want to loose the feeling, so its like going against the religion. Because he is not fully devoted to reaching enlighten.
9) The way that Siddhartha expressed contempt of richness and the false deity of a businessman is by gambling. When Siddhartha gamble, he loss and win, so he is like an average man that gambles.
10) I agree with Siddhartha point of view of Samsara way of life because he does not take it seriously. I think the way he takes life, in other dimension like a game, by there is people that does good and bad.
1. have felt this way quite a lot. Honestly I really hate school, but not because I hate the teacher or friends, I hate school because I hate learning and waking up so early. By hating school, I started to wonder why we are here learning about things that I will never use in my life. This was when I was in jr. high, and that’s the same time that I found the reason we are going to school and learn about those things. I think it is because we are learning the bases of communicating and connecting with other people, and the teacher becomes our role model for being socialized.
ReplyDelete2. I don’t I think I have felt such moment, not that thrilled or anything but I think I really changed since I came to this school. I changed in a good way, and a bad way too. Before coming to this school, I was really sloppy by everything besides my appearance. I never did my homework, and never listened to my teacher, loose every homework, and forget at least one things such as note book and text book every day, because as I just hated school. By changing school to H.I.S. I got more careful and able to have more responsibility to my self, but the negative way that I changed is that I easily get mad because of stress.
3. “She drew him over to her with her eyes, he lowered his face to hers, and placed his lips on those lips that were like a newly opened fig.” (Hermann32)
This quote is placed when Kalama had his first kiss. This shows the sexuality of him, and it is the first kiss for him so I think he felt changes in his body.
4. My book’s title is With the Child-People, and the title summarizes the book by telling the people that Siddhartha spent several years with the Child-People. Siddhartha stays in the city because he meets the king’s daughter, Kamala. She was beautiful and attractive so Siddhartha fell in love with her.
5. It is ironic since Kamaswami become the role model of Siddhartha since Kamaswami is rich and live an elegant life, but Siddhartha is poor and not wealthy like Kamaswami. Siddhartha obviously had more burden life than him.
6. Because Kamala taught a lot of things to him and he experienced a lot of fun things. Kamala taught him the importance of love and his existence. By learning such feelings made Siddhartha wants to work harder then ever. Also the first woman he really loved and never felt such feeling before was Kamala.
ReplyDelete7. The reason that Siddhartha was different from others was because he experienced a lot of important things than the normal people have done, and can do things the normal people can’t do from the past. Siddhartha learned, and experienced a lot of things by Samanas, and Gotama and even he is not one of them right now, he has the knowledge of each of them, and he knows what happened in the past, and so he is separated from the other people.
8. Siddhartha contaminated by becoming gambler, and drunk. By becoming that kind of people, his soul became heavy, tired because he wasn’t a kind of person who gambles. He used to listen to his inner soul and do what he had to do, but he became junky and not able to listen to his inner soul, by not listening to his inner soul made him worse.
9. Because of his bad hobby of gambling made him feel like a businessman. When he gambles and he loses he becomes worry, but when he win the gamble, he becomes extremely happy. Eventually he becomes rich, the desire to the money becomes larger and larger.
10. Siddhartha believes that Samsara as a game, because how our death and the reborn are like a game. The life we live is the cycle of born, live, suffer, and dies this cycle is kind of game of Nintendo Mario or something, because Mario tries hard to reach the goal, and during the travel he suffers a lot by being attacked by the enemies, and then dies. I agree with the theory because life is really like a game, but we can’t reborn like Mario can. We suffer a lot and have a little reward from our crazy world.
1) A teacher can tell you how things are done, and for what purposes; however, they cannot tell you when to use them for something you are truly passionate about. Teachers are only there to teach you their own knowledge, understanding, and experiences; it is up to you to use theirs teachings as a base for your own creative understanding of life. For example, before I started elementary, my dad taught me how to make good comebacks; I never knew why my dad kept making me repeat nasty name-calls, until the third day of my first grade. I had won an argument against a third grader, and I can tell you that, it felt great!
ReplyDelete2) When we see our friends everyday for a whole year, we may not be able to see changes in them (not referring to new haircuts and other dramatic changes), however, if we look at an old picture of them, from the beginning of the year, we can definitely see the changes. This shows that changes of surroundings can only be seen through changed eyes.
3) “Would you like to give me a kiss for a poem?” (Hesse 40). In this quote, we discover that the awakening sexuality of Siddhartha is so strong that he becomes desperate enough to earn a kiss from Kamala by offering an exchange.
4) WITH THE CHILDLIKE PEOPLE can serve as a summary for this section because it depicts Siddhartha’s merge into the childlike society of business. At first, Siddhartha sees the people’s lives as “a game, the rules of which he tried hard to learn precisely” (Hesse 47), later on however, he takes part of the game, becoming a childlike person himself.
5) It is ironic that Kamaswami becomes Siddhartha’s role model because Siddhartha used to value the Samanan ways of waiting, thinking, and fasting, all of which Kamaswami overlooked. However, now that Siddhartha is caught in the childlike society of business, he can no longer keep his faith in the Samanan ways as much as he once did; all he has now is the master of this world of business, Kamaswami.
1. Honestly, I asked myself this question almost every day. I do not know if education is the most important thing in life. I wanted to learn some things that are out of the text book but at the same time really useful in our life. For example, how to survived on an island that has nothing except a gigantic jungle.
ReplyDelete2. Once awhile I had that feeling that things around me are different from what it used to be. Sometimes I thought maybe it’s me that had change or others had change, but I believe everyone, including myself had grown a bit more every day, it’s a process of becoming an adult.
3. “At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda anymore, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman’s dress,” (Hesse 35). Siddhartha’s sexuality has been awaken so he started fantasying about woman and also has many questions about them. This is a process that all male have to face one day.
4. My book’s chapter title was called “With the Child-People”, this could be the summary of the chapter is because of the new things that Siddhartha experience with the child like people. He was in a forest for several years so he didn’t have any contact with the outside world. By spending lots of time with those people, Siddhartha was slowly becoming one of them.
5. Kamswami became Siddhartha’s role model was really ironic because what Siddhartha believes in was really antithesis compare to Kamswami. Siddhartha believes in thinking, waiting, and fasting but Kamswami care more about business. So when Siddhartha were getting wealthier, he looked up to Kamswami.
6. Siddhartha believe that it’s Kamala that had taught him the values and meaning of his life right now, not Kamswami. It was because of Kamala that causes him to be in the city so he believes Kamala was the one that help him walk to the world. Also, Siddhartha was able to experience feeling that he never felt before, both physically and emotionally.
7. Compare to other people, Siddhartha was considered different. He does not enjoyed the way other people act in their daily life. He believes that fasting was the right path rather than eating wealthy meal and having fun. And because of this, Siddhartha is separated from the “people of the world”.
8. Siddhartha’s soul was heavy due to the all the goods and money he had gain. He thinks that he was slowly becoming one of the rich people in the city. He slowly realized that this is not who he really are, he wasn’t a type of person that would gamble or getting drunk.
9. Siddhartha showed contempt of riches and the false deity of a businessman through gambling. When he gambles, he would become like the other gambler, have lots of desire of wanted to win and when he lose he would became depress.
10. I would have to agree with Siddhartha about Samsara is like a game. Life had been describe with many words, each one show the reason behind. Thinking that life is a game way to say that it has a starting point and ending point. When your reborn, that’s when the game start over again.
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1. Honestly, I asked myself this question almost every day. I do not know if education is the most important thing in life. I wanted to learn some things that are out of the text book but at the same time really useful in our life. For example, how to survived on an island that has nothing except a gigantic jungle.
ReplyDelete2. Once awhile I had that feeling that things around me are different from what it used to be. Sometimes I thought maybe it’s me that had change or others had change, but I believe everyone, including myself had grown a bit more every day, it’s a process of becoming an adult.
3. “At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda anymore, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman’s dress,” (Hesse 35). Siddhartha’s sexuality has been awaken so he started fantasying about woman and also has many questions about them. This is a process that all male have to face one day.
4. My book’s chapter title was called “With the Child-People”, this could be the summary of the chapter is because of the new things that Siddhartha experience with the child like people. He was in a forest for several years so he didn’t have any contact with the outside world. By spending lots of time with those people, Siddhartha was slowly becoming one of them.
5. Kamswami became Siddhartha’s role model was really ironic because what Siddhartha believes in was really antithesis compare to Kamswami. Siddhartha believes in thinking, waiting, and fasting but Kamswami care more about business. So when Siddhartha were getting wealthier, he looked up to Kamswami.
6. Siddhartha believe that it’s Kamala that had taught him the values and meaning of his life right now, not Kamswami. It was because of Kamala that causes him to be in the city so he believes Kamala was the one that help him walk to the world. Also, Siddhartha was able to experience feeling that he never felt before, both physically and emotionally.
ReplyDelete7. Compare to other people, Siddhartha was considered different. He does not enjoyed the way other people act in their daily life. He believes that fasting was the right path rather than eating wealthy meal and having fun. And because of this, Siddhartha is separated from the “people of the world”.
8. Siddhartha’s soul was heavy due to the all the goods and money he had gain. He thinks that he was slowly becoming one of the rich people in the city. He slowly realized that this is not who he really are, he wasn’t a type of person that would gamble or getting drunk.
9. Siddhartha showed contempt of riches and the false deity of a businessman through gambling. When he gambles, he would become like the other gambler, have lots of desire of wanted to win and when he lose he would became depress.
10. I would have to agree with Siddhartha about Samsara is like a game. Life had been describe with many words, each one show the reason behind. Thinking that life is a game way to say that it has a starting point and ending point. When your reborn, that’s when the game start over again.
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1) When I was little I learned a lot of things that not just education would teach you. Many things I self taught was how to live life, and how to keep in order of your feelings and emotions to others. It wasn’t just me, but I know many have learned how to control your self, by self discipline. Although the simple math’s, Literature, and Sciences. Would have not changed what we believe in, and how we think. Teachers would not show us how to think, but to only guild our ways, to understand what your weakness’s are and what not. I found out about this, when I was in 3rd grade, which was one of my life changes. Who to trust, and who to understand, was one of the many things I believe it can be only learned by self experiences and knowing your self.
ReplyDelete2) Again, when I was little I learned though the collapse of my old school. When I was in the 5th grade I found out how much it was a pain to see people suffer to loose a job. Not only to see a different face of a teacher, had everything only made everything look human. I myself still remember the strike these teachers did in front of my school, and how horrible it was. I would never want to go through my school shutting down, and going bankrupt. How ugly it was to see the reality of teachers, and how much humans are not perfect. I felt the greed summing from the teachers, and leaving students, because they had no care for the kids in my school. The children at our school must of notice how much it changes with the nothingness of money. I felt as if I was the only one unhappy, which was not true. Of coarse, I don’t think I could expand on this, But every step in life for me is a teaching to what I should be ready for real life. This was 1/10 of my life change from school, and I am some what glad I went to go to the pits, and now to a ground level school.
3). "Siddhartha felt his blood heating up" (Hesse 36). It’s amazing how these simple words can tell you. As you can see he is getting aroused by the site. Although, It’s normal for everyone to have blood boiling up for there “love” one.
4) Compared to many, this text showed a lot of emotion towards others. He starts to loose him self, and not being able to think for him self. To melt into the city life, with simple orders given by Kamala only showed how much he was weak. The text title reflects on the whole story, and does summarize what Siddhartha has done. This was a phase of his life, to act “normal”
5) One of the ironic aspects of how Kamaswasmi is that he is not the one who should be looked up to. Since he is the one who is the bad influence, Kamaswasmi is a the who is the exact opposite of what Siddhartha has learned. Kamaswasmi has the presence of Greed, lust, and sloth, the lack of waiting goes against the learning’s of Buddha.
Taiga Kuroiwa (Sorry for different name)
ReplyDelete1.Unfortunately, I tend to respect teachers even though how much students will hate them. It is not like my mind, but I rather say an instinct. Maybe I might be rebellious only sometimes, however I instinctively don't think are the teachings useful or not. It is too impolite to the teachers, so I would deny to answer the question properly.
2.I never thought that the world has changed because if I start to imagine that the world changed, it also means that I disagreed on previous days, which is the thing I never want to do it. In other words, for me, the word change means that denying all the stuff that is left, and believe in only new stuff.
3.“Siddhartha saw how beautiful she was, and his heart rejoiced. He bowed deeply, when the sedan-chair came closer, and straightening up again...”(Hesse 37). In Buddhism, the teachings make the rank of women unbelievably low, so expressing a woman beautiful can transitively say that it is awakening of sexuality.
4.Amongst the people represents the life of Siddhartha, not as Samana. He was awaken as Siddhartha, but going through his past life, Samana, he thought that he can understand more about human life.
5.First of all, Kamaswami met with Siddhartha who was only able to think, fast, and wait. Siddhartha started to spent his time with Kamaswami because Kamaswami wanted Siddhartha's style of life. Siddhartha didn't mind about it. Then Siddhartha started to become rich, which gradually made him jealous. On the other hand, Kamaswami started to live in style of previous Siddhartha, the one who thinks, fast and wait. The situation in between them changed 180 degrees.
6.“But again and again, he came back to beautiful Kamala, learned the art of love, practiced the cult of lust...”(Hesse 50). When he is spending time with Kamala, he clearly explained his opinions. However, during the part of Kamaswami, there was no specification of his emotions, such as practiced the cult of lust. This quote prove that Siddhartha he is learning what he want to do.
7.Siddhartha needs to separate himself by calling all others as “people of the world”. If he didn't call the others like that, he can not identify and explain the true reason why he is doing the stuff that everybody do it. He does the stuff that everyone do it, but he is always independent. He wants to experience love to learn the feeling of lust. He wants to experience being rich to learn the rich and similar to strength. His base can not be lust, rich, or strength because he is being partially haughty against those stuff, which proves that he have a different base. As a matter of fact, he is not depending on lust, rich, strength or any kind of stuff, so he categorize himself as “Alien” or higher than a man.
8.This question requires a specific answer, but based on Buddhism teachings, everything in our life will end up with sufferings, tiredness and dullness. To be specific, he is feeling tired because of his love toward Kamala, earning money with Kamaswami, and gambling with others.
9.He was gambling nearly all the night. He didn't enjoyed earning money with gambling, but he enjoyed the thrill and the huge amount of loss. However, he can not loose the money all the time, so everyday he vigorously worked for his gambling time. That is how he displayed the contempt for riches and the false deity of businessmen.
10.He described his long span of life as game to completely divide himself and Samsara, which makes him evade from his suffering. Personally, I hugely disagree with this opinion because every moment is myself and there is no way to escape, and we are tasked to fight against suffers. This is my theory, so I disagree against Siddhartha.
6) Siddhartha, notices how much Kamaswasmi does not teach him anything, but to only teach him the ways of how to live a life wrong. As for the ideas from Kalama has thought him more things then what Kamaswasmi has taught him, to understand the different emotions what he has gotten from the experiences of what Kalama has given him
ReplyDelete7) To be able to strip everything from your life seems to the way he thought it would make him happy; He starts to blame everything on things that make you run away from the truth. As for things you would pay money to get, he thinks its not worth it and it would only make you happy in your mind, But not in one with yourself. He starts to fast, and to take everything from his back and starts to understand what he “lacks”. What is happiness? Seems to be a question that popping up, every now an then.
8) After dirtying his hands with his habits of gambling he noticed that reality he is the one who is not being able to commend to him to be able control himself. He must of felt as if he was in a dark cave, and not being able to go any further with out getting out to the light. Which leads to the fact that he the one who is lost in himself.
9) This is the same feeling of being addicted to poker. Compared to the addictions many gamblers get into, it is normal to feel pleasure from winning a bit pot. Only to look at a larger picture of how much you have lost to with that pot. Not only to see that the feeling of being addicted is very sensational as well as frightening. It seems as if this was one of the things that has lead Siddhartha to feel scared on what he has done, and what he sees in front of his own mirror is not him.
10) Life is an endless game that repeats, is what he says though the text. Not only this is just a feeling of what you are in, I think this is complete blasphemy, I would hate to think this way. The life cycle may have been same for many years, but it only changes when you change. Although Siddhartha shows not understanding of what life is, He starts to think he does… His voice of this statement would only make him look very emo.
6) “…there is peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do” (Hesse 50-51). Siddhartha believes that Kamala taught him the value of his present life, not Kamaswami, because she showed him a way to use himself for something meaningful to him; she taught Siddhartha love/lust, while Kamaswami taught him business. The whole purpose of Siddhartha leaving his home was to find peace with self, not an escape as others (such as Kamaswami).
ReplyDelete7) “The name of this game was Sansara, a game for children, a game which was perhaps enjoyable to play once, twice, ten times – but for ever and ever over again” (Hesse 57). Siddhartha enjoyed the game of this commercial world: the drama of love, etc. but he could not see himself playing it forever. He did not feel like he fully belonged there because he does not love, and he does not try to escape from himself.
8) I think this quote suggests that Siddhartha’s habits, of not being able to listen to himself and becoming one of the people in the commercial world, made him tired and heavy from all the bad influences (drinking, gambling, etc.)
9) It seemed like Siddhartha wanted to bet big to feel the great sensation of winning big time, then again he also had to deal with the huge loss. He expressed the hatred towards money by gambling huge sums.
10) I agree with Siddhartha that Samsara is a game for the childlike people. People worry about money, drinks, etc. It may all be fun for him now, but the thrill will die away leaving him with nothing but dullness.
1. We are educated in school. However, I sometimes feel are we truely learning things. We hardly don't learn things by 'experience'. But instead, we learn by materials. Whenever I learn things, if I don't enjoy it, I don't think I am truely learning something. Teachers teach us very well, but there's often something missing, and students have to experience the teachings to fulfill theirselves.
ReplyDelete2. I think I never experienced the same transformation that Siddhartha experienced. However, I might felt something had changed when I woke up after deep thinking. It was usually decided by the mood. Often when I wake up, I feel very calm, and probably what I worried before, is not that serious problem after I feel calm.
3. The quote I found about awakening of Siddartha's sexuality was, “At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling his close to his chest and kissed” (Hesse 35).
4. In my book, the chapter's title is 'With the childlike people'. This title shows that how Siddhartha spent his life after his awakening. He spent time with childlike people, which can be mean as immature people.
5. It was kind of ironic between Siddhartha and Kamaswami. They were just totally different person. Kamaswami is only thinking about money and profits. However Kamaswami become Siddharth's role model.
6. Kamala taught Siddhartha the value of present life. Whereas Kamaswami taught him the valude of 'basket of the fish' which represents the business knowledge. Siddhartha never needed this business knowledge in his life. Therefore Kamala gave him better and more useful knowledge.
7. Siddhartha was different from 'people of the world' or 'ordinary people', because he didn't let himself enjoy something. He prohibited from enjoyness. That's why he is differnet one among people.
8. His soul got heavy and tired because he lost his goal. As he got wealthy, he thought about his own possession and comforts, to fulfill his phsical satisfication. He lost his mind to find the way to have free soul.
9. Siddhartha gambles in this chapter, and displays “contempt for riches” and “the false deity of businessmen”. He bet thousands of money and lost most of them. This chapter shows how Siddhartha is sunked deeply in polluted water.
10. Sansara is just described as a game because the winning and losing is the immutable thing like life. And it looks like human's life cycle, birth, live, and death. I don't really agree with this, because life is something more valuable than just a game.
1. When I was young, I usually helped my father’s restaurant. He is the one who taught me how to do but there are not enough lessons from him so I had to know. The important thing is that because I had a lot of experience in there I could understand more about helping in his restaurant.
ReplyDelete2. I felt similar thing in my life before. This was my first time to abroad in the other country. I was really nervous to talk to new people and I couldn’t be open to them. But from two years before I started to like talking to them to know each other and now I am happy that I can be friendly with strangers.
3. “At this, he embraced Goginda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda anymore, … and strongly tasted the milk from this breast” (Hesse 35). This quote shows Kamala refers to the awakening of Siddhartha’s sexuality.
4. “With The Childlike People” is the title and this tells what Siddhartha was doing after awakening. Siddhartha meets a lot of people and becomes friendly with them.
5. There was irony in Kamaswami becoming a role model for Siddhartha. Siddhartha’s thought is really opposite to Kamaswami. Siddhartha was stopped by the childlike business and Kamaswami becomes a role model for him.
6. Siddhartha believed that it was Kamala, not Kamaswami, Kamala had taught him the value and meaning of his present life. Kamala taught Siddhartha about love and a lot of experience that he had never had before.
7. Siddhartha was still separate from the people of the world because he started to hate many things that make him not trust or worry. That is why he cannot have fun with other people in his life.
8. In this chapter Siddhartha addicts to gambling. He is being a swaggerer because he is becoming a rich guy. At the end he finally realized what he has to be.
9. Siddhartha displayed his contempt for riches and the false deity of businessmen in that chapter. When he was gambling all the night he wins and loses the games. It is like fifty-fifty so he is better than all loses man.
10. I agree with Siddhartha’s view of Samsara. Samsara described as a game because victory or defeat is similar to the life. And our life style is also same situation.