TylerLSB

Tyler 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 Samanas 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 soda. #|Getting Started At the beginning of my week it was very difficult. I drink soda almost everyday for #|dinner. So when I don't have it for a week, I was going through withdrawals. The first night, I had a #|headache from the lack of caffeine. Also I was kinda cranky. At least that is what I was told by my parents. But when it was time to go to bed, I was out. The second day I woke up, I was a little bit tired. But once i had my breakfast and went to #|school I couldn't even tell that I haven't had soda. But then once #|dinner came, I was really craving a soda. but I held out and still didn't have one. Just like how the book says " You will grow tired, you will fall asleep" (hesse 11), that is how I was feeling but like Siddhartha I knew that I could do anything I put my mind to. Mid-Week During this middle of this week, I began to realize that maybe caffeine was a bad thing for me. After the headaches, I was starting to feel more awake. I couldn't imagine giving up something like food, as Siddhartha gave up food. Just like in the book it says "he traveled along the path of self-denial through pain,through voluntary suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst, and fatigue" (15.) I'm not sure I could deny myself food. That would be impossible for how much I eat. I could barely deny myself one can of soda. Towards the middle of the week, I was beginning to realize that I was able to go to sleep easier and I could sleep longer. I also wasn't having a craving for a coke or some kind of soda. Water made me feel more alive. That is really the only way to describe that. I felt like I had more energy, which I'm sure I did. End of the Week When the week came to an end, I was proud of myself. I had lasted a whole week without drinking a soda. But once this week was over, I sprinted downstairs and grabbed a drink. I'm not sure that was the best thing because then I started to feel a little sick. And then i felt guilty. After one week of not drinking soda, I just gave in like this. So from then on I try to drink soda in moderation. Sadly that work and sadly it doesn't work.

Awakening

Siddhartha's Awakening
When the book talked about Sidd's awakening, he begins to notice more things around him. He notices the different #|colors around him, 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..." (39), the quote goes on longer but I think you get the idea.

The Image
This is the image that I drew representing the view Siddhartha had when he saw the world for the first time.

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Analyze
I drew the different colors that the quote said to try and make it like what Siddhartha saw. As I'm sure you can tell, I'm not a fantastic artist, but I think i was able to represent what Siddhartha saw when he truly saw the world for the first time. I think the author chose this spot because of the many symbolic archetypes. For example, the river represents his change, now he is seeing the world for the first time. Also I think the earth around him represented that he is becoming connected to the world.

= Kamala =

Name: Kamala

Location: Pleasure Garden

Eyes:Dark-Brown eyes (page 51)

Hair: Brownish-Black (page 51)

About Me: I am everything someone could want, I am beautiful, wealthy. I'm confident with how I look, "a bright very sweet, very clever face, a bright red mouth.... artful eyebrows painted in a high arch, dark eyes, clever and observant" (51)

Hobbies/Professions: I am a pleaser for men, but only if they pay the right price. I will keep you entertained. And when I leave you will be begging me to stay.

Looking For: I am looking for a King that will treat me like his queen. You have to be a musician and write music for me. Also you must be beautiful, wealthy, and love me.

= Samarsa = 1.Wake up at 6:00 2. Go to the gym and get big 3. Take a shower 4. Get dressed 5. Get on the bus 6. Go to a bunch of boring classes 7. Get on bus and go home 8. Do homework and then go to bed.



My routine is fairly basic. I wake up at 6:00. I go to the gym someday and if I don't go to the gym then, I wake up at 7:00. I shower then get dressed. I eat breakfast and then go to the bus and get on the bus. After I get on the bus, I get to school and do a bunch of school work. Finally when all the torture is over, I get on the bus and go home. usually do my homework and then hangout with my family. At the end of my day I get ready for bed and usually go to bed around 10:00.

= The River =

media type="custom" key="24520230" Song "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry Lyrics: "If I die young, bury me in satin. Lay me down on a bed of roses Sink me in the river at dawn Send me away with the words of a love song" Quote From The Text: "He saw: this water flowed and flowed, it kept on flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always ad at all times the same and yet new every moment." (54) Analysis: In this song, the artist are saying that if she dies young that the place she wants to be buried is the river. I think this relates to Siddhartha because, he goes to the river and always finds answers. I think the river is where he belongs and I think if he heard this song, that he would want to be laid down in a satin coffin and be sunk in a river.

media type="custom" key="24520308" Song "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" Lyrics: "It was a wa wa wa wa wa-terfall A wa wa wa wa wa-terfall Every tear Every tear Every teardrop is a waterfall" Quote From the Text: "Yes, He had reached his end. There was nothing left fr him but to obliterate himself, to shatter the abortive structure of his life, to throw away at the feet o gods who would laugh in scorn." (47) Analysis: The artist in this song are saying that even a teardrop seems to be alike a waterfall. I think this relates to Siddhartha because, it seems like nothing is going right for him, no matter what. He said good-bye to everything he loved and then he abandoned his town and never returned. He wanted everything to end because nothing seemed to be going his way, like ever teardrop was a waterfall.

media type="custom" key="24520028" Song "Knee Deep" Lyrics: "Wishing I was knee deep in the water somewhere Got the blue sky breeze and it don't seem fair Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair Sunrise there's a fire in the sky Never been so happy Never felt so high And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise" Quote From the Text: "Gradually there blossomed, gradually there ripened within Siddhartha the realization, the knowledge, of what wisdom really was, what the goal of his long quest was. It was nothing but a preparedness of the soul, a capability, a secret art of conceiving the idea of oneness at every moment,...." (70) Analysis: The artist in this song is talking about a paradise that he has finally found where everything is perfect. I believe this is related to Sidd. He in the end, finally found what he was looking for. He found internal peace. That, like in the song, is when Sidd has never been so happy or felt so much better.