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=Ms. Riddle's Self-Realization Scrapbook= = =

=With the Samans=

=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 wearing different shoes every other day, because it's technically not something I ** need **. Technically.

= Getting Started = Giving up my shoes was a little more challenging then I expected. For me shoes mean mostly everything and without them is like losing a pet. This was more challenging then I expected because of how much I'm so addicted to my shoes and how I have been this way since 8th grade. The only good part of this week was that I saved like 10 mins in the morning before school.

Mid-Week
This was the time things started to get really hard for me. First, my mom and I went shopping and I brought new clothes and __#|new shoes__. This __#|new shoes__ were about $150 and I couldn't wait to wear them.............then I remember the assignment. Those two days were probably two of my worst days of my life. Time could not have gone slower. I imagine that this was the same felling that Siddhartha had when he was searching for enlightenment with those monks in the forest, but much much longer in his case.

By The End
After a gruesome five days without my shoes, I felt like a homeless man walking to school everyday and I had a feeling that people started to treat me differently. So on the sixth day I realized that I'm not that strong-willed and I'm very shallow with clothes. To me this assignment lightened a dark side of me I never even knew I had. So now I am going to try being less shallow about clothing and what to wear to school.

= Awakening =

The Quote
Siddhartha's awakening to me was like when you wake up from an afternoon map. He felt refreshed from the rest of the world and he saw thing others cant. Before the awakening Siddhartha "swayed as he tired to walk" because he couldn't figure out what to do with his life and after a long nap you need to stretch. Other people probably ask him "why are you waiting" and "did the sacrifices give happiness". I never believed that sacrifices could give you happiness until now. I always thought that less you have the more you want and are never happy with the things you have. This story had me wondering if you can gain happiness from letting your possession go.

"swayed as he tired to walk"(12) "why are you waiting"(11) "did the sacrifices give happiness."(6)

The Image


Ii draw a scene like the on above because I just finished reading about the river part of the book. When I read about the river I imagined that the river would flow in to a waterfall and then separate in smaller rivers. Mountains in the distance and the sun full out. I see Siddhartha flowing on the river looking round him to see a forest all around the river and suddenly stopping right before the waterfall. I imagine this picture in the most colorful way because i draw this picture in his eye after his eyes were awaken and he could see the colors of the world.

= Kamala =

** Location ** :
The Pleasure Grove (a nice town where they only accept well looking kind gentlemen)

** Eyes ** :
Dark Brown

** Hair ** :
Chocolate Brown with Caramel Streaks

**About Me //://**
//hello my name is Kamal, I am a well known courtesan. I live in The Pleasure Grove. My hobbies are to take care of myself and to teach people. People all around the world come up to me and ask if they could learn the "Pleasures of love" from me.....but very few do. i sorta get sick of hearing the same thing though sometimes, everyone always asks me "I would like to ask you to be my friend and teacher"(53)//

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I am a very picky girl though. I don't just accept anyone. "No, he is not yet good enough. He must have clothes, fine clothes, and shoes, fine shoes, and plenty of money in his purse and presents for Kamala." (54). What i look for in a guy is how he introduces himself to me. If he is dress nicely and show kindness to me but he also has to have money, I cant just go out with someone who doesn't have any money. He most be straight to the point and always knows what to said. That is what i look for in a guy. ======

= Samsara =

Quote from Siddhartha
"He had become rich. He had long possessed a house of his own servants, and a garden at the outskirts of town, by the river. People liked him; they came to him if they wanted money or advice" (75).

My Daily Life
1) wake up 2) get ready for school 3) chill at home til mom comes back for dropping off my sister 4)go to school 5)learn something 6) eat lunch 7)learn something else 8) go home 9)eat dinner 10)gym or tennis 11) do some homework 12)get ready for bed 13)go to bed

Analysis
My average weekday starts with me waking up at 7:30 for school. Then I would take a shower, brush my teeth and get ready for school. After this I would eat something like a breakfast on the go and be at school quickly. At school, the whole day you sit in your desk and learn......sometimes. After school I would get home around 4:30. That is when I eat lunch because I don't like eating in school. I then go to the gym with my dad or practice Tennis with him. When i come home again around 7:30, I finally do my homework. After a good hour of just homework I get ready to go to bed and sleep. This schedule makes it feel like "the years passed by. Enveloped by comfortable circumstances, Siddhartha hardly noticed their passing" (75). Its funny cause last year I think of my self as a middle-schooler but in reality I was in 9th grade. I guess the years do pass by quickly.

media type="custom" key="21446080" Betty said she prayed today For the sky to blow away Or maybe stay She wasn't sure.

For when she thought of summer rain Calling for her mind again She lost the pain And stayed for more....... etc.

I picked this song because the song "Riverman" is talking about someone who was lost and must find the Riverman to see advice. It reminds me of Siddhartha in his time of need when he was "was full of ennui, full of misery full of death;...." (87). I think in this quote Siddhartha need to see the Riverman so he can get advice about his life.

media type="custom" key="21446308" Lose one, let go to get one Left one, lose some to win some (You lost one) Story of a champion, sorry I'm a champion You lost one

I choose this song because in the book Siddhartha was lost in a world that he didnt like; but one then he reacted enlightenment he saw the world as a beautiful place and loved it. "there was no more purpose; there was nothing more than a deep, painful longing to shake off this whole confused dream." (88). This qoute shows how lost Siddharth was before he reacted in enlightenment and how he felt about the world around him.

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Just take your time (It's about the people ) And then you’ll find (It's about the people)

 i choose these lyrics above because it is telling us to take so time and not rush into things like we normally do. Like on page 90 in the book Siddhartha when to sleep after getting enlightenment. Enlightenment was so much that he when to a dreamless sleep without knowing it "His sleep deep and dreamless; he had not slept like that for a long time" (90). So what I'm trying to relate is that Siddhartha when to sleep and when he woke up he "found it" like what the song says.

PG 1) Once upon a time there live a handsome Indian Price named Siddhartha. Siddhartha was born into royalty, so he did know much of thing but religion. PG 2) He lived in a castle his whole life with his parents and his best friend Govinda. Siddhartha did not like his life though and didn't want to follow in his fathers footsteps. PG 3)  One night Siddhartha announces to Govinda that he will join a group of Samanas (wandering mendicant priests).  Samanas were like homeless people in your time but they choose to be homeless for a religious point of view. PG 4) So Siddhartha and Govinda join the Samanas hoping to break the cycle his father created.  From a long time with the Samanas, Siddhartha decides to leave them cause he cant reach his main goal of enlightenment with their teachings. PG 5) After Siddhartha and Govinda leave the Samanas, they come across a interesting man named Gotama. Gotama thinks that there is no enlightenment and so no one can achieve it. Siddhartha also tries to learn from Gotama but cant because he needs to find his own path to enlightenment. PG 6) After Siddhartha left Gotama, he decides that he most find the path be himself and he left Govinda behind. After Siddhartha leaves the grove he figures out he most find his own path and can not find enlightenment from another persons teachings. He must do it by himself. PG 7) Siddhartha liked to be by himself and doesn't mind the loneliness. One day Siddhartha comes across a ferryman who takes him across the river. PG 8) Across the river Siddhartha meets the famous Kamala. Kamala makes Siddhartha clean himself up and becomes friends with her. After that she introduces him to her friend who is a business man. The business man takes Siddhartha under his wing and eventually Siddhartha becomes his equal. PG 9) Siddhartha soon learns that the business life isn't for him and he is more interested in the emotion love. PG 10) Siddhartha lives this way from many years and becomes very wealthy. Siddhartha gets mad at himself from abandoning his path to enlightenment. So he leaves his wealthy life again to fined his path to enlightenment. PG 11) After Siddhartha leaves the city he meets up with his old lost friend Govinda. Siddhartha soon finds the old ferryman that helped him a long time ago. The ferryman name was named <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Vasudeva and he thought Siddhartha about the river which will help him reach enlightenment. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">PG 12) After a long and sorrow road Siddhartha finds peace with the river and then finds enlightenment. After Siddhartha finds peace Vasudeva leaves him and he becomes the new ferrymen. PG 13) Many more years past as Siddhartha being the ferryman and finally Govinda shows up to learn from Siddhartha. After Siddhartha teaches Govinda what he has learned................ They both become enlightened and live out their years together. THE END