NoahGSB

= Noah'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.

Write 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 the internet, because it's technically not something I ** need **. Technically.

Beginning of the week
during th beginning of the week it wasnt hard to not get on the internet. although afew times i almoast did get on the internet.

**Middle of the week**

while it was the middle of the week i found my self trying to find excuses to get on the internet.

End of the week
on the last day of this project it seemed like the day just went on forever and it was starting to get me so mad, because i had nothing to do.

=SAMSARA=

my daily life:
 * 1) wake up
 * 2) eat breakfast
 * 3) go to school
 * 4) go to class
 * 5) go home
 * 6) do home work
 * 7) play video games

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lyrcis To cry, cry me a river Cry me a river-er Cry me a river Cry me a river-er, yea yea Quote: "In his heart he heard the newly awakened voice speak, and it said to him: "Love this river, stay by it, learn from it." Yes, he wanted to learn from it, he wanted to listen to it. It seemed to him that whoever understood this river and its secrets, would understand much more, many secrets, all secrets" (101).

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=Kamala=


 * Name ** : Kamala


 * Location ** : I live on a street just outside the city (28)


 * Eyes ** : My eyes are brown (28).


 * Hair ** : My hair is black (28).

im looking for a persom and this person must have "handsome clothes, good-looking shoes, and a lot of money in his purse, and gifts,"(30) for me.
 * Looking For (speech, effect on others) : **

=__//**AWAKENING**//__=

What does Siddhartha's "Awakening" look like, could this the same thing as reaching Enlightenment? In the book, Siddhartha becomes aware of the world around him after leaving the Samanas and Gotama. 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 Brahmans ,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).