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 * Dayja Jones's Scrapbook**

=**With the Samanas:**=


 * The Assignment**

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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 Instagram, because it's technically not something I need. Technically. =====


 * Beginning of the Week:**

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The task was to give up something we enjoyed for a week, so therefore with that said I gave up Instagram. Giving up Instagram was something I knew would be challenging but I did it anyway because I knew I could give it a chance. The first couple of days was extremely hard because it was an urge to check it and take pictures and upload them. I normally use Instagram when I'm with friends and at school but mostly when i get bored. When i got bored the first couple of days I had to do something else to occupy myself, I ended up just going on twitter and venting. As it went on it became even harder the second day not being able to check it. The struggle. Siddhartha said, " When someone is seeking ... it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything ... because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal." =====


 * Middle of the Week:**



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In this picture it pretty much shows how I was during day 3 and 4. I wanted to scream because Instagram is an addiction as well as twitter and other social networks. I'll admit i was doing much better and becoming stronger than I was during the first few days. Day 3 i was 50/50 with it, it wasn't so much a priority to look at it but then again in a way it was. Giving up something is hard so you have to focus your attention on something else to keep your mind off of things. Day 4, that's when I realized i had willpower, I didn't feel the need to want to check my Instagram every 5 minutes. I thought to myself " i can do this! ". ("The teaching which you have heard...is not my opinion, and its goal is not to explain the world to those who are thirsty for knowledge. Its goal is quite different; its goal is salvation from the suffering. That is what Gotama teaches, nothing else.")=====


 * End of the Week:**

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At the end of the week it was relieving to know that I didn't have to give up Instagram anymore and then in a way it was no longer stressful. I have mixed emotions about giving it up, i was confident that i completed my task but then I became very anxious at the end to get back to using it. It was like a sigh of relief I released after I finished my week. I felt this task was a bit iffy on my part because I wasn't sure whether it was most difficult or less difficult. I am just more so proud of myself for not giving up. It takes willpower and courage to do something like this. So I could say I felt "LIKE A BOSS".("When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!")=====

= = =Awakening:=

Siddhartha reached awakening after he realized that the world was beautiful and a melting pot.To him, awakening looked like mountains, cloudy but yet sunny sky, the world and the actual shape of it, and also just visualizing everything with one's own eyes. (insert quotes). I chose to draw a river, mountain, eye, world, world in a melting pot and a cloudy but yet sunny sky because "the world melt[ing] away from him all around, in which he stood alone like a star in the sky" (Hesse 23).

=Kamala:=

Name: Kamala

Location(28): Just outside of town, near a beautiful grove enclosed by a hedge.

Eyes(28): dark eyes clever and alert

Hair(28): high-piled black hair

About Me( what was Kamala like? Think about Steal/indirect Characterization. What makes her so appealing to Siddhartha? ( 28-30 ) .Kamala was like Siddhartha's teacher. She was also very appealing to Siddhartha because he saw how beautiful she was and his heart rejoiced. ("He saw beneath high-piled black hair a very fair, very soft, very clever face, bright-red lips like newly opened fig, eyebrows well tended and painted in the form of high arches, dark eyes clever and alert, a long fair neck emerging from the green-and-gold outer garment, fair hands at rest, long and narrow, with wide gold bracelets at the wrist")

Hobbies/Profession(What does Kamala do for a living? How does she like to spend her time?(28-30) During Kamala's free time she enjoys hunting down men that are basically rich and make them want to be with her, she also owns a house in the big town.( I teach people about love. I am an "instructress").

Looking for?( What does Kamala want in a man? Look at her requirements for Siddhartha.. ( 28-30) She is looking for a man who must have handsome clothes, shoes, good-looking shoes, a lot of money in his purse and gifts for Kamala.(" He must have clothes, handsome clothes, and shoes, good-looking shoes, and a lot of money in his purse"(30). When men visit me they "come in fine clothes, they come in __#|elegant shoes__, they have perfumed hair and money in their purses") = The River: = media type="custom" key="21368452" "...Don't go chasing waterfalls Please stick to the rivers and lakes that You're used to I know that you're gonna have it __#|your__ way Or nothing at all But I think you're moving too fast..."
 * CHASING WATERFALLS LYRICS:**

QUOTE:
"Deep was his sleep and without dreams, for a long time he had not known such a sleep any __#|more__. When he woke up after many hours, he felt as if ten years had passed, he heard the water quietly flowing, did not know where he was and who had brought him here, opened his eyes, saw with astonishment that there were trees and the sky above him, and he remembered where he was and how he got here."

ANALYSIS:
The quote and the song relate through the way that Siddhartha had remember hearing the water quietly flowing and his surrounding when he got there, the song says "stick to the rivers and lakes __#|your__ used to" Siddhartha did just that. media type="custom" key="21475012" "Your bridges were burned, and now it's your turn (It's your turn) To cry, cry me a river (Go on and just) Cry me a river-er (Go on and just) Cry me a river (Baby go on and just) Cry me a river-er, yea yea ..The damage is done"
 * CRY ME A RIVER LYRICS:**

QUOTE:
"Cheerfully, he looked into the rushing river, never before he had like a water so well as this one, never before he had perceived the voice and the parable of the moving water thus strongly and beautifully." "Was this not his self, his small, frightened, and proud self, he had wrestled with for so many years, which had defeated him again and again, which was back again after every killing, prohibited joy, felt fear?"

ANALYSIS:
This connects with Siddhartha in the way the he was happy but still felt as though he was no longer himself, in the song it had quoted " .. the damage is done". Siddhartha had believe that to he he had defeated himself numerous times and after all of that still felt fear and prohibiting joy to himself. media type="custom" key="21727174"

OVERBOARD LYRICS:
"It feels like we've been out at sea, ..I'm reaching out for you, Get me out here in the water and I.. I'm overboard.. I can't swim on my own It's too much Feel like I'm drowning without your love, So throw yourself out to me my lifesaver. Life __#|saver__, oh life saver.. "

Quote:
"It seemed to him, as if the river had something special to tell him, something he did not know yet, which was still awaiting him. In this river, Siddhartha had intended to drown himself, in it the old, tired, desperate Siddhartha had drowned today. But the new Siddhartha felt a deep love for this rushing water, and decided for himself, not to leave it very soon."

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In Siddhartha it was said and I quote,"It seemed to him, as if the river had something special to tell him, something he did not know yet, which was still awaiting him. In this river, Siddhartha had intended to drown himself, in it the old, tired, desperate Siddhartha had drowned today. But the new Siddhartha felt a deep love for this rushing water, and decided for himself, not to leave it very soon." Siddhartha's quote relates to this song in a way of knowing something or someone is special and can help each other. It is a feeling like love the song and Siddhartha connect with.=====

=Samsara:= Everyday I wake up around 7:30-7:45, I shower. After my shower I get dressed and then around 8:20 I walk to the bus stop for school. Between the hours of 9 and 3:45 I'm in school learning. When I get out of school I go home and take a nap and wake up around 6 for my dad's football practice. Once we get home from football practice around 8:30 or 9, I do homework, eat dinner, then start all over again.

QUOTE:
"Like a veil, like a thin mist, tiredness came over Siddhartha, slowly, getting a bit denser every day, a bit murkier every month, a bit heavier every year."

ANALYSIS:
My life connects with that quote in a way that everyday i come home from school I feel more and more tired than I was the day or night before. Being tired is a common thing for young adults with school work and jobs, as you get older the amount of your tiredness increases not because your not busy but simply because one is really working.