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Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, is the story of a young man searching for enlightenment. Through his journey, Siddhartha follows several Buddhist and Hindu paths to achieve his ultimate goal of enlightenment. Siddhartha follows the path of the Brahmin, the Samana, the materialistic gambler, and eventually the Buddhist middle path. Being the son of a Brahmin, Siddhartha leads a privileged life, but this isn’t enough for him. Siddhartha had an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and after a time, he leaves his father to find his own path to Nirvana. Although Siddhartha was raised in a strict Hindu society, his path to Nirvana was a combination of Buddhism, and Hinduism.

Listening to the teachings of the Buddha, Govinda decides to join Gotama and his followers. However, while Siddhartha does not disagree with the teachings of Gotama, he does not believe that he will be granted enlightenment by pledging allegiance to him. Rather, through a conversation with the Buddha, Siddhartha discovers his biggest mistake – “nobody finds salvation through teachings” (Hesse 34). Contrary to the belief of others, Siddhartha discovers that he must “no longer try to escape from Siddhartha…no longer devote [his] thoughts to Atman and the sorrows of the world…no longer mutilate and destroy [himself]…no longer study…any other teachings” (Hesse 39). Although Siddhartha realizes that he has wasted a great deal of time seeking for salvation in all the wrong places, he finally discovers the key to enlightenment— Siddhartha must no longer fear himself, he must find himself, and learn from

In the forest, Siddhartha abandoned his royal title and set off on the path to enlightenment as a monk. The path was a difficult search that lead him through three phases….. The first phase involved learning Hinduism tradition by going into deep study with Hindu masters, however, he quickly become proficient of their ways and decided to seek further on to asceticism or abstinence of worldly goods to reach a spiritual level. Soon he conquered the practice, but felt that this was not helping him; he went so far into the practice that he almost died from

When Siddhartha completes his time as a Samana he discovers and then tells everyone he encounters, “I can think, I can wait, I can fast” (Hesse 52). Knowing that these traits were important, but not enough to get him where he needed to go, Siddhartha turned to the life of an ascetic. “Siddhartha had learned how to transact business affairs, to exercise power over people, to amuse himself with women; he had learned to wear fine clothes, to command servants, to bathe in sweet-smelling waters…” (Hesse 61) and he still was unhappy. He was unhappy because he had only been able to conquer material things

He did this without attending to cravings and indulgences. This became known as the middle way, a place “that lies between all extremes.”2 He then sat under a Bodhi tree and began to meditate. While meditating, he was visited by a demon named Mara.

To begin, much of Siddhartha’s young adult life was spent with the Shramanas in the forest that would teach him their way of life in order to be enlightened. It was Siddhartha’s goal to be completely pure in the mind and essentially become one with the universe. “Siddhartha had a single goal before him… to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of desire, empty of dreams, empty of joy and pain.” (Pg. 13). The

     Siddhartha was a handsome man who lived with his father in ancient India. Everyone in the village wants Siddhartha to become a Brahmin like his father. Govinda, who is Siddhartha’s best friend, together they perform all the rituals of religion and does all the rituals which bring him peace and happiness. Siddhartha doesn’t want to become like his

Siddhartha first starts out as a Brahmin, yet he feels a need for change. He then converts to a Samana, then shortly a follower of Gotama. After he denies learning from a teacher, he meets Kamala, who he wishes to learn from directly. From Kamala, he brings himself to learn from Kamaswami, which eventually fails as well. These unsuccessful attempts at happiness bring Siddhartha desolation and lethargy. Hesse illustrates Siddhartha at this time in his life, “His face was still wiser and more spiritual than others, but it seldom laughed and it took on, one after another, those features found so often in the faces of the rich, those features of discontent, sickliness, sulkiness, sluggishness, lovelessness. Slowly he was stricken with the spiritual illness of the rich” (69). Even though his heart was beating and he was undergoing pleasurable times, he did not feel like he was truly living. Rather than ending his life, Siddhartha takes one last effort to reach enlightenment from Vasudeva, the ferryman. At last, Siddhartha inadvertently finds his happiness from his long-lost son. Through his constant journey, Siddhartha does not reach enlightenment until he stops looking for it, which expresses that one cannot search and find happiness, but rather it needs to come naturally. On the other hand, Dorian Gray begins as an ideal man with great beauty and youth,

Siddhartha and Shrek contain similarities as mono-myths; however the story of Shrek is the more creative work of the two. Both stories are good examples of mono-myths, but the appeal of each story is very different. The audience reading Siddhartha and the audience watching Shrek are most likely polar opposites. Siddhartha’s audience is probably more adults and religiously based. Shrek’s audience is probably more children and family friendly.

During Siddhartha’s youth, he would always sit and talk with the elders to further understand the Brahmin heritage and achieve all the knowledge he possibly could. After gaining all the wisdom of the Brahmin, Siddhartha tells his father that he believes he and the other scholarly Brahmin have learned nearly everything from the holy books, but he is concerned that they have not yet achieved enlightenment. Siddhartha feels that the rituals he has been taught by the Brahmin, seem more like a custom than an actual path to enlightenment. One evening Siddhartha reveals to his

Siddhartha has what most people would consider to be a perfect life. He is a handsome young boy who is well loved and respected by all in the Brahmin community (Hesse 5-6). He is taught by the elders in his Brahmin community, but his thirst for wisdom does not believe that their teachings will be enough. Siddhartha’s unhappiness leads to his decision to join a group of ascetics, known as shramanas, to gain his desired wisdom (9). At this point, his main goal through the shramanas was, “To die away from himself , no longer to be I, to

Little Buddha is a powerful and entertaining movie that retells the mythological tale of Buddha. The film also tells the captivating story of a Buddhist monk, named Lama Norbu, who travels from a peaceful monastery in Nepal to the busy city of Seattle. Lama Norbu’s fellow monks have discovered a boy, named Jesse, who they believe might be the reincarnation of Lama Norbu’s former teacher, Lama Dorje. After they meet, Lama Norbu gives Jesse, who is very fascinated with the monks, a children’s book called “Little Buddha: The Story of Prince Siddhartha”, so he can learn about the Buddhist religion and Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment. Lama Norbu insists that Jesse accompanies the monks on their journey to Bhutan, where the monks will test Jesse, to discover if he is the true reincarnation of Lama Dorje. As the storyline continues, the plot switches back and forth between the myth of Siddhartha, from Jesse’s book, and the story of the search for the reincarnation of Lama Dorje. Although most movies based on mythological stories tend to have one point of view, the myth itself, Little Buddha retells the myth, while intertwining a present-day sequence of monks teaching and traveling with Jesse, which allows the movie to teach a deeper understanding of the myth itself, the Buddhist religion, and those who practice it.

Siddhartha, the handsome and respected son of a Brahmin, lives with his father in ancient India. Everyone in the village expects Siddhartha to be a successful Brahmin like his father. Siddhartha enjoys a near-idyllic existence with his best friend, Govinda, but he is secretly dissatisfied. He performs all the rituals of religion, and he does what religion says should bring him happiness and peace. Nonetheless, he feels something is missing. His father and the other elders have still not achieved enlightenment, and he feels that staying with them will not settle the questions he has about the nature of his existence. Siddhartha believes his father has already passed on all the wisdom their community has to offer, but he longs for something more.

Buddhism’s founder was a man named Siddhartha Gautama, meaning “one who realized his goal.” Buddhists believe that when Siddhartha’s mother, Maha, was conceived she had a dream involving a white elephant carrying a lotus flower. She interpreted the dream to mean that her son would grow up to become a great spiritual leader. Just a week after Siddhartha was born, his mother died. Upon her death, he lived with his wealthy aunt and his father on a large estate. As Siddhartha grew up, his father kept him away from all suffering and anguish of the world. Unlike many of his peers, he was well educated and free from the world’s sorrows.

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