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= Richard's Scrapbook =

The Assignment


To get a feeling for how the Samanas, Indian ascetics that are found in the novel, try to reach enlightenment, we gave up something we enjoy for a week. I chose to give up television. It wasn't really that hard to give up television, i don't really watch it that much. But you can say I had " a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing,"Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Kindle Location 156). for the television, even though i only use the t.v., really to play xbox. My little brother watches t.v. constantly though so it was hard to make sure i wasn't in the same room with him when he was disney channel or whatever it is that he watches. If he had to give up t.v. for a week he would have to go " the way of self-denial by means of meditation," Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Kindle Location 177). We'd have to get him to sit still first though... I was just fine, except for that one day that I was really bored and wanted to watch something, other than that I was either doing school work, playing games or programming random things. I could probably do this for the rest of my life if I wanted to, it might take some effort but it wouldn't be anywhere near impossible. If i had tried to give up all electronics, i would have miserably failed, i simply cannot do that, mainly my computer, and secondarily my radio, i rely on both too much to be able to stay away from then for any extended period of time. I don't use my computer for just Facebook and games, i use it for school work, for web design, for learning new programming languages, for keeping in contact with my robotics team, for listening to music as well. If i had tried that, i would maybe be able to do it for a day, and that day would have to be a red day, where i don't have any of my computer classes, but, the very next day i would have to use my computer to work on stuff in class.



Awakening


Siddhartha reached awakening after he left the Ascetics To Siddhartha awakening looked like a beautiful, colorful, new world, like my picture! :D I really just drew some random picture and then went back through and tried to find quotes that seemed to fit. These quotes are below.

1. "Slowly walking along, Siddhartha pondered. He realized that he was no youth anymore, but had turned into a man. 2. "Beautiful was the world, colourful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world!" 3. "Motionless, Siddhartha remained standing there, and for the time of one moment and breath, ..."

My drawing shows Siddhartha "Slowly walking along, Siddhartha pondered. He realized that he was no youth anymore, but had turned into a man." but, then he stops at the end of the path and "Motionless, Siddhartha remained standing there, and for the time of moment and breath," Siddhartha finally realizes that "Beautiful was the world, colourful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world!" that's why in the drawing he's saying "ooh look! colors!" then the blue mountain thing is actually the river that continues to return to throughout the whole book, the sun of course has to be there, because no drawing is complete without a sun drawn in the corner!

"Awakening" - Siddhartha "wakes up" from the humdrum of the rest of his life, if it can be called a hum drum life, and realizes that everything is beautiful, mysterious, and has a deeper meaning than what is just shown on the surface.

Kamala
About me: I am Kamala, I'm pretty rich and I have had many suitors come to me, some are Brahmans and some are not, but none of them are good enough for me. There was that Siddhartha guy though, I did like him. Looking for: I'm looking for a man who knows how to love also, "Clothes are what he must have, pretty clothes, and shoes, pretty shoes, and lots of money in his pouch, and gifts for Kamala." Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Kindle Locations 597-598). I do love gifts and money after all.

Physical features: For you to know my physical features, it is best if we turn to an eye that is not mine, for the have a much better view, i wonder what Siddhartha thinks..."Under black hair, which made to tower high on her head, he saw a very fair, very delicate, very smart face, a brightly red mouth, like a freshly cracked fig, eyebrows which were well tended and clear, tall neck rising from a green and golden garment, resting fair hands, long and thin, with wide golden bracelets over their wrists." page 28 Well, he is a very observant samana.

Location: India, if you want to know the exact location, then come and find me. If you don't find me, then you obviously don't want to know enough.

What Siddhartha would have to do to woo Kamala: He would have to get rich to begin with, gain a fortune doing something like trading, so that he may get the money in his pocket and the clothes, pretty clothes and shoes, pretty shoes Kamala likes to see on a guy, and of course you always need money for the gifts that Kamala wants.

Sansara
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The longest part of my day is the morning when i'm kind of trying to get out of bed. Then I just go to school and spend my day, which normally goes by faster. But now that it is closer to Christmas things are going by much slower, not because of the excitement for the break and the holidays, but because of all the homework, and projects and tests, all of that combined with the fact that my grandparents, whom i don't necessarily care for, are living at my house for a month, and won't be leaving until the day after we go back to school on January 7th. My daily schedule isn't necessarily good when it comes to sleep though, because I normally stay up late at night, talking to friends, or doing homework or playing games, and then I have to wake up 5 hours or so later for school. Comparing my day to Siddhartha's life "For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust, though without being a part of it. His senses, which he had killed off in hot years as a Samana, had awoken again, he had tasted riches, had tasted lust, had tasted power; nevertheless he had still remained in his heart for a long time a Samana; Kamala, being smart, had realized this quite right. It was still the art of thinking, of waiting, of fasting, which guided his life; still the people of the world, the childlike people, had remained alien to him as he was alien to them." Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Kindle Locations 808-811). Siddhartha's life is probably set up better than I have mine set up as, he specializes in thinking, eating and fasting, while I specialize in sleeping, which doesn't really help with much, other than for not hallucinating. My senses are pretty much killed off to, by lack of sleep, and as for what guides my life, with school going on, it is the arts of eating, of sleeping and of doing homework.

Quote: "he became aware of himself in his misery and in his error." Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Kindle Location 964).
==The River Analysis: The song American Idiot, is about not being an idiot american who believes all the propaganda. To realize the errors of our own country. While in the book the quote is about realizing your own errors.==

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==Quote: "Om! he spoke to himself: Om! and again he knew about Brahman, knew about the indestructibility of life, knew about all that is divine, which he had forgotten." Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Kindle Locations 964-965).==

The River Analysis: The quote is about finding another chance, that it wasn't the end, and that he could try again. That is what the lyric says.
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==Quote:"In deep tiredness, he took his arm away from the trunk of the tree and turned a bit, in order to let himself fall straight down, in order to finally drown. With his eyes closed, he slipped towards death." Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Kindle Locations 955-956).==

Om
Richard Thompson

Ms. Riddle English 11/18/12

Sid in Paris Sid was very rich in his early years, he didn’t act like a spoiled brat, and he treated everyone with kindness. Sid lived in the palace at Versailles, a huge castle that showed France’s power. One day though, Sid heard an Italian minstrel singing a sad song. Sid had never learned Italian, but despite that, the song sounded sad to him, so he turned to his friend, Jacques and asked what the minstrel was singing about and why he was so sad. Jacques told Sid that the minstrel was singing about how sad things were beyond the walls of Versailles. Sid wondered how anything could be sad, for he had never seen death, or old age, or sickness, his father had made sure of this. But, now he wanted to travel outside the walls of Versailles, to see the real world. His father persisted that he had no reason to leave but Sid had already made up his mind. Early one morning Sid rose before the sun had risen and he quietly packed his things and went to the gate “a shadow rose near the last hut, who had crouched there, and joined the pilgrim” (location 141) Jacques was waiting for Sid, and they both walked out of the palace.

As Sid and Jacques walked along they spotted some old, beggar – looking, men. Sid asked who they were and Jacques told him that they were samanas, they did everything they could to separate themselves from their body, in the hopes of finding enlightenment. Sid decided that this is what he wanted to do, he wanted to find enlightenment, so he and Jacques joined the samanas in their quest for enlightenment, Sid soon perfected the art of the samana, but he wasn’t happy with it, he did not think this was the way to find enlightenment, one day, though, word of the Buddha reached Jacque’s and Sid’s ears from across the world. Sid and Jacques decided that they would go across Europe in search of this Buddha. They traveled for a long time, their fasting as samanas helped them make this journey. Eventually they got to India and found the Buddha, however, Sid was not impressed with the Buddha’s way of teaching, Sid decided to leave the Buddha and find a different way to reach enlightenment, but Jacques didn’t want to leave, he agreed with the Buddha’s ways of finding enlightenment, so he decided to stay. Sid was walking away from where the Buddha and his friend Jacques stayed and he pondered as to what was wrong, how could he not find enlightenment? Then it struck him “That I know nothing about myself, that [Sid] has remained thus alien and unknown to me, stems from one cause, a single cause: I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself! I searched Atman, I searched Brahman, I was willing to to dissect my self and peel off all of its layers, to find the core of all peels in its unknown interior, the Atman, life, the divine part, the ultimate part. But I have lost myself in the process.”(location 436) Sid now realized that he needed to start his life anew; he would go and see what it was to fulfill his desires of money and women. Sid was not making the choice to become a greedy, self- serving person, he merely decided that maybe enlightenment could be achieved through granting the mind and body their wants. Sid walked back to Paris, so that he may start his new life in a place filled with love and riches. Sid arrived at the outskirts of Paris, but before he even entered he saw a beautiful woman, about his age, he caught only a glimpse of her before she walked into the Luxembourg Gardens. Sid was very tempted to walk after her, but he decided against it, he was in no state to talk to a woman of the beauty. He needed to look as decent as he could, with his amount of money, before he could talk to the beautiful lady. Sid found an old knife that no one wanted, so he went over to the river Seine, where he could see his reflection, and he cut off his unkempt beard, he also gave himself a fairly decent haircut, considering all he had was an old knife. Sid then bathed in the river, all of this wasn’t much, but it was the best he could do. That night he slept under a bridge, the next day he would find some clothes and go talk to the beautiful woman. Sid woke the next morning with the sun and set off to find decent clothes and get himself ready to meet the woman. “When late in the afternoon, [the beautiful woman] approached her grove in her sedan-chair - [Sid] was standing at the entrance, made a bow and received the courtesan’s greeting. But that servant who walked at the very end of her train he motioned to him and asked him to inform his mistress that a young Brahman would wish to talk to her. After a while, the servant returned, asked him, without a word into a pavilion, where [the beautiful woman] was lying on a couch, and left him alone with her. Sid asked the woman what her name was and she answered by saying her name was Luce, the two of them talked for a little while and then they kissed, Sid decided by this point that Luce was to be his teacher of love, he also realized though, that if he was to have Kamala he must become a wealthy merchant, so that he may give her what she desires. Overtime Sid gained a fortune and learned from Luce and eventually he lost his fortune and went to the Champs Elysees, he was about to walk out into the street and put himself at the mercy of all of the carriages, that would most definitely run him over, but just before he walked out into the road he thought, “What all agony of these recent times, all sobering realizations, all desperation had not brought about, this was brought on by this moment, when the Om entered his consciousness: he became aware of himself in his misery and in his error.”(location 962). Sid decided that there was a way to enlightenment, it wasn’t either extreme, it was a simple balance between the life of the samana and the life of the fulfilling your mind and body’s wants. Sid went on to have a wonderful life and traveled quite a bit, it was all much better than in the ice age. Oh…did I mention Sid was a sloth?