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= Josh Salone 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 = = = = = = =

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 Computer, because it's technically not something I ** need **. Technically.

**Getting Started**
The first day was the hardest because it is such a part of my life. It was a routine to me when it got home it would be go directly to the computer, but when I was about to turn it on I was like dang it, and it I just stood up and walked away from the computer. I started reading but it was hard because after everthything I did i went directly to the computer. It was " I suffer thirst, Govindia, and on this long Samana path my thirst has not grown less"(Hesse 18-19) The ugre to go on my computer kept growing and growing.

By mid-week everything was okay but still had an urge to go on the computer but it wasn't has large of an urge as the beggining og the week. This urge was more control able. Had started to read more and stated to spend more time hanging with my faimly not cooped up in my room from when it get home to when i have to go to school the next day. It was a lot more fun in the middle of the week than it was at the beggining. " Two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillnrss of hid form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort-only light and peace."(28) By this time of the week there was no urge for the computer. =**By The End**= At the end of the week Didn't even relized that I owned a computer. It was really easy at the end of the week I didn't go to the computer any more after I did things. I spent more time with family and doing other things that I didn't care about the computer anymore it was gone to me and I relized I didn't need it anymore and that it was just a thing to pass time and there are other ways of doing that then spending tons of time playing on the computer. " I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his self."(35) At the end of the week I had conquered the demon wich was the computer.
 * Mid-Week **

=** 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). = =



Analysis
I drew this picture because this is what I think the book depics. The colors that I used were said in the book. Those colors were "blue,yellow,green." I drew as the book set the setting in the story. Hessie choose this because it was such a beautiful seen in the book. It was a great setting to describe. It was very beautiful how he described it too.

=Kamala=

Hair: Black (51)
About me: I enjoy long treks through the grove. I love my work and the pleasure I receive from my work. I love to teach people about true love and show them how to live a city live. I have "black hair, very sweet, very clever face, a bright red mouth like a freshly cut fig, artful eyebrows painted in high arch, dark eyes, clever and observant, and a clear slender neck above my green and golden gown" (51). Men have told me that I'm one of the most beautiful woman they have ever saw.

Hobbies/ Profession: I'm a courtesan looking to settle down with the right guy. I have surprised men with my ability to "ascending the tree"(50).

=Samsara=

1) wake up 2)Take a shower 3)Eat breakfast 4)Get dropped off 5)Go to school 6)Get picked up 7) Go Home 8) Do homework 9)Play Xbox 10)Go to sleep



Analysis
====I have a usally get up at 7:00am. I take a shower and get ready for school. Than I am dropped off at school around 8:00am by my father. I go through out my day learning about the different subjects. After school I go home and and play xbox. After I eat dinner. I finnish my homework. I go to bed and wake up in the morning to do it again. This gets really boring after awhile. Like Siddhartha I love to learn about new things Siddhartha thinks the same thing in the book Siddhartha believed that "Knowledge is important"(51)====

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