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Ms. Faulconer'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. =

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With the Samanas
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 watching __The Vampire Diaries__ because it's technically not something I ** need **. Technical
 * The Assignment **


 * Getting Started **
 * Monday. ** I watch __The Vampire Diaries__ on a weekly basis. It comes on every week on Thursday, I don't have cable so I usually watch Fridays on the computer. Since I don't watch it everyday it was easier for me. Today my day was pretty normal, no new tv shows were coming out so I would just watch netflix with my mom. **Tuesday.** __The originals__ is a spin-off of __ The Vampire Diaries __ . It comes on today, so I will watch it on Wednesday. The good thing about this is that I get to watch a show. The bad thing about this is usually after I watch it I want to watch vampire diaries right after, because they kinda go together.

his supplement was that he knew what he was doing was worth it. It was worth restricting himself if he could find away to get rid of other peoples suffering. Another tv show I watch it __The tomorrow People__ it comes on today, so I can watch it on Thursday. **Thursday.** Today is the day that __ The Vampire Diaries __ come on. Me and some of my friends are talking about what we want to happen. I couldn't have watched it today even if we didn't have this assignment, so its not that big of a deal. Friday will be worse, I will have a resist the urge to watch it.
 * Mid-week**
 * Wednesday.** Today I watched originals, it was a really good supplement to not watching __ The Vampire Diaries. __ I think this related to Siddhartha's experience because

= Awakening =

The Quote
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).

**Picture**

Analysis
I knew my scene like this because in the book Siddhartha said " Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beautiful, all mysterious". I drew the trees and grass to show the greens he saw. I drew the river and the mountains like he said he wrote about. I drew them in blue to show what he wrote. I did the sun rising in the background to show the yellow he wrote about and the beautiful sky he saw.

**Kamala's Profile** **Name-** Kamala

**Location-** The Grove of Kamala

**Eyes-** I have... "dark eyes, clever and observant" (51)

**Hair-** I have... "heaped-up, black hair" (51)


 * About Me- ** I am a beautiful woman with high expectations. I'm perfect so I deserve the best. If your not the best then don't bother. I'm tall, elegant, have a voice of an angel. I love the swift, soft, sonnets of a poet. I was once told that I have... "a bright, very sweet, very clever face, a bright red mouth..." (51)

**Hobbies/Profession-** I am someone you can share your night with, for the right price of course. I'm the entertainer for men. I enjoy being mooned over and adored. I always leave the men wanting more.


 * Looking For- ** I'm a queen looking for a king. You must have wealth, beauty, and love for me. Treat me like royalty and do as I wish and you might earn my love. I want musician to write melodies for me to sing.


 * Samsara **
 * 1. Listen to "Don't wake me up" by Chris Brown to wake me up. **
 * 2. Get in shower **
 * 3. fall asleep in shower **
 * 4. get out of shower **
 * 5. put clothes on **
 * 6. get on bus and hate the world for making me ride it **
 * 7. go to school **
 * 8. pretend to learn **
 * 9. eat lunch, talk to friends **
 * 10. pretend to learn some more **
 * 11. celebrate that i made it through another day of torture **
 * 12. go the basketball practice **
 * 13. love the fact that I get to watch hot guys play basketball for two hours **
 * 14. eat dinner **
 * 15. watch tv (netflix) **
 * 16. Play candycrush **
 * 17. go to sleep **
 * Analysis- **My life is pretty average i get up, go to school, go to practice, and go home. I do this everyday, and I've been doing it for years. Sure, the sports might change, and the seasons, and my classes but basically I have the same routine. It's weird to think that this is my second year in high school. I feel like just yesterday I'm getting on the bus for the first time going to kindergarten so excited That was ten years ago, time really does fly. But time is flying - I feel like Siddhartha at times because "the years [pass] by... [and I] hardly [notice] their passing" (75). Today is my friends birthday and I feel like I just met her yesterday but we've been friends for around 4 years now. It's so crazy to think of how much time went by without me realizing. I suppose that is what my routines have done to my life - made it all one blur where I am always just looking to the next big event that I will look back on later. Perhaps I am stuck in Samsara.

media type="custom" key="24660248" To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing What's around the riverbend Waiting just around the riverbend I look once more Just around the riverbend Beyond the shore Where the gulls fly free Don't know what for What I dream the day might send Jut around the riverbend For me Coming for me  **Analysis-** In this song pocahantas is curious about what's to come, and in the book siddhartha is about curious about how he got the where he is now. "
 * Just around the riverbend-**

media type="custom" key="24660258" Cry me a river

media type="custom" key="24660278" Chasing waterfalls