"siddhartha"

r5tommy

r5tommy

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has anyone read it?

we're doing this book in english, and i was wondering if it was influencial to anyone, or if its just lame.

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2 Months, 5 days
 
yea good book, i like it cuz its about finding your own path... he meets buddha across the way so thats cool...

good book, im not much of a reader but this one really got me

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I read it. HighFive is actually wrong. He doesn't meet Buddha, he IS Buddha.

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Oh yea.. wow i feel like a moron.. but he does run into another philosopher who is supposedly being followed by a ton of people. I remember that he doesn't like this at all because he finds out he must follow his own path or something

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yea i read it. its wierd cause he does meet buddha, but at the end he like also becomes him to. he takes the same paths a buddha and reaches nirvana. his meeting of the buddha is kind of a symbol i guess of what he is going to be like. i cant explain it well

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and yes it is influential... the message behind the whole thing is great.

one of the best books ive ever read.. but its been a long time..

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haha he doesn't meet Buddha you fool. Buddha = Siddartha Guatama. He's a metaphor for the actual person.

But yes the book is written with a great authentic flair to it, the language is like Nectar in a Sieve if you've read that. The book is quite interesting, the end is especially powerful. Very enlightening read, quick too. Enjoy it.

-AndrewP

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^thats what i was trying to say in a way. i think our teach said quatama or whatev. was like another name for buddha

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considering he meets the buddah on his journey, i really doubt he is the Buddah... i am reading it... i dont like it

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First off if you knew some Buddhist history you'd know that Buddha's birth name is Siddartha Gautama. Hesse's character is based off him, they had identical early lives. However, Hesse took the liberty of designing the book's character's journey to enlightment; seeing as there is little documentation of that period of Siddartha's life. All we really know is how his life began, and that is what Hesse uses as a launching point. The journey is fictional.

Siddartha does not meet the actual Buddha, he meets an enlightened leader by the name of Buddha. However, his name is given to him to allude to the future of Siddartha and one of the book's messages. Enlightenment is not something attained on a universal path, it is an individual journey.

-AndrewP

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Per solitudinem ardere in remedium formidinis dictitabat.

Define to me a waste of space.
 
aight thanks, i will now read the book, in hopes to inrich my inner soul

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2 Months, 5 days
 
and thats why all those followers of the guy siddhartha met never bacame enlightened. siddartha went out on his own journey

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haha my teacher was wrong... nice job dude

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anyone ever read catcher in the rye? i dont get how it influenced that guy to kill john lennon

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Catcher in the Rye. Read that one to. It was total garbage. That book was just a whinny little brat complain about how 'phony' people are. I found it extremely tedious and unfulfilling.

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yea that is pretty much what it is. but i dont see how it influenced ppl to do bad things

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That guy was just a nut. No real explanation for a psycho.

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Yea, Siddhartha Guotama was Buddha, but yeah that whole story was kind of like one like figurative speech about taking your own path, but also a story of Buddhism and purification.

-at least you went down naked-

no i figured it out when he over shot the bowl and shit on the back of the toilet. then he signed my beanie.-Hoodratz47 in response to being in the same public bathroom with mike wilson
 
sorry, never heard of it....was it good?

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i have that book, but i havnet read it..you guys have inspired me to read it when im done my current book.

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my parents are hella into buddhist philosophy and stuff, i think we have that book, i might go read it now

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it's pretty ill. Some deep shit in that book.

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i enjoyed the book but i read it a few months ago and now i have to write a paper on it. bump. anyone want to help a brotha out with a paper?
 
i ended up writing it. and there was no direction for this paper. we could write on whatever we wanted so i just ended up writing on how the book helped me realize what i believe in. super easy paper and my english teacher said she liked the topic.

definitely a good book though
 
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