CorinneBSB

= Corinne's Scrapbook =

===This is the place where I will write about the journey I follow to self-realization. My goal is to gain wisdom and takes steps towards enlightening myself. I will be following the journey of Siddhartha, the title character of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, as a model for my own journey. The steps I have taken follow. ===

= With the Samana's =



The Assignment
====To get a feeling for how the Samanas, Indian ascetics that are found in the novel Siddhartha, try to reach enlightenment, we gave up something we enjoy for a week. I chose to give up cable TV, because it's technically not something I need. ====

[[image:download (3).jpg align="left"]] Beginning of the Week
====When I got home from school on the first day, I thought that I wasn't going to be able to make it without watching TV. But strange as it may be, it wasn't really that hard at all. On the second day I had weight lifting and then basketball practice. When I got home I didn't really get to watch TV anyway because I had so much homework to do. I usually watch TV in bed until I get too tired to watch any more, so it was really weirdly silent for the first couple of nights. ====

[[image:camel.jpg align="left"]] Middle of the Week
====On Day three I had basketball practice again so I didn't have much time to watch anything anyway, but then when my brother was watching "How I Met Your Mother" really loudly and I love that show so it was really hard not to go watch it with him. I stayed upstairs and played video games. On the fourth day I had morning basketball practice. I usually don't think about how much longer that makes my day. But I was exhausted when I got home so I didn't feel like watching TV anyway. Therefore I went straight to bed. ====

[[image:Rebecca-Black-Friday-Performance-On-Leno-500x333.jpg align="right"]] End of the Week
====Day five was a just really boring but I still managed to think of better things to do than sit around and watch TV. My brother and I took my dog on a nearly 2 hour walk throughout Forest Lakes. On the sixth day I babysat almost all day long. The parent's of the kid I was babysitting didn't want him to watch TV that night, so it was pretty easy to not watch it because he was around. As the novel states, "May you travel this path to the end. May you find salvation" (30). I feel like since by the end of this week I realized that I don't really need to watch Tv that much, so yes I did find salvation. Since I hadn't watched TV for an entire week, I got a lot more stuff done and it was kind of fun having to think of different stuff to do to entertain myself. ====

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= = The Awakening = 

====What does Siddhartha's "Awakening" look like? Is this the same thing as reaching Enlightenment? In the text, Siddhartha becomes awakened to the world around him after leaving the Samanas and Gotama (the Buddha). He sees "the world for the first time. The world was beautiful strange and mysterious. Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beautiful, all mysterious and enchanting, and in the midst of it, he, Siddhartha, the awakened one, on the way to himself. All this, all this yellow and blue, river and wood, passed for the first time across Siddhartha's eyes. It was no longer the magic of Mara, it was no more the veil of Maya, it was no longer meaningless and the chance diversities of the appearances of the world, despised by deep-thinking Brahmins, who scorned diversity, who sought unity. River was river, and if the One and Divine in Siddhartha secretly lived in blue and river, it was just the divine art and intention that there should be yellow and blue, there sky and wood -- and here Siddhartha. Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them" (39). ====

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Analysis
====<span style="color: #3e82cc; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">I drew this picture because this is what I pictured when reading the quote. I made sure to include blue, yellow, and green because those were included in the quote. Blue symbolizes water, air, sky, or opportunity and calm. Yellow symbolizes enlightenment and wisdom; light. Green symbolizes earth and nature; calmness and fertility. I also made sure to include the sky, river, woods, and mountains too. It was convenient to have those things included in the quote because they made it possible for me to use all the colors needed. Sky/air represents journey which is important to the quote because it symbolizes Siddhartha's journey. ====

<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;"> = <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Kamala =

I guess I am looking for "young men... in fine clothes, in fine shoes... scent in their hair and money in their purses"(54).
= <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">My daily life =

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Analysis:
====<span style="color: #3e82cc; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">My life is BASIC. I wake up every morning around 7:17 am. I turn on music before doing anything else, because I can't get dressed or anything without listening to music. Then I go downstairs to eat breakfast. Which usually turns into me and my brother having a miniature food fight. After I win the food fight I head back upstairs to get dressed. I finish getting dressed and head to the bus stop. I ride the bus to school and suffer through the entire day and then have basketball practice until 6:30. I end my day with watching TV and laying in bed until I fall asleep. My life is much like siddhartha's, in a sense that my life is very repetitive, "Life was pain" (14). I used this quote because I consider it to be really painful and boring to do the same things every single day. ====

= <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The River =

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**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Quote from text: **
====<span style="color: #3e82cc; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">"...his glance fell on the river, and he saw the river going downward, too, moving constantly downstream, but singing merrily as it went. He was greatly pleased with that and smiled at the river in a friendly way." (Hesse 50) ====

**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Analysis: **
====<span style="color: #3e82cc; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">I picked this song because I feel like the message of the song is that the person singing it wants to go off with the person they love and just be alone; kind of like Siddhartha wanted to be alone. The specific lyrics are perfect because it says, "sat by the river and it made me complete", that reminds me of how Siddhartha saw the river and was "greatly pleased"(50), almost as if the river made him feel complete, just as it does to the artist singing this song. ====

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** Analysis: **
==== I chose this song because literally throughout the whole song it talks about how if you follow the river even if you don't know where you're going or if you're "following the river in your sleep" then you will get where you need to be eventually. I think this is accurate to Siddhartha's journey because he follows the river only knowing that he should stay by the river and learn from it. ====

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**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Quote from text: **
====<span style="color: #3e82cc; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">"He saw: this water flowed and flowed, it kept on flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always and at all times the same and yet new every moment" (54). ====

**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Analysis: **
====<span style="color: #3e82cc; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">I used this quote from the text because the specific lyric that I chose talks about how the river is a continuous flow, yet it always stays the same, which in a way reminds me of life. In the song when he says "this water tells my story, this water knows it all," it reminds me of how life is like a river. You're overall story in life never changes, but it keeps flowing as long as you keep living. Though sometimes life is boring and repetitive, it is still "new every moment" (54). ====