When a person is looking for something, he will only see what he is looking for. He got nothing, because he only focused on what he was looking for, because he was obsessed with his own goals. Pursuit means having a goal, while seeking means freedom, tolerance and giving up all goals.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
I have no right to judge other people's lives, I can only judge for myself. Meaning and reality are not hidden behind things, but all phenomena existing in things themselves. When a person can be so simple, so awakened, so focused on the present, and walk through the world without doubt, life is really a kind of enjoyment. People should only listen to their inner voice and not be driven by any external force, waiting for the moment of awakening; This is a good and necessary behavior, and everything else is meaningless.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
In deep meditation, people can eliminate time and experience everything in the past, present and future at the same time, so everything is good, everything is perfect and everything is Brahma. So, I think everything exists for the best, whether it's death or life, whether it's sin or piety, whether it's wisdom or ignorance, everything is inevitable, all I need is my happy approval, my understanding and love; So everything is perfect for me, and nothing in the world can infringe on me.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
So chic, so dignified, so sincere, so frank, so simple and so mysterious. Only when a person goes deep into his own heart can he look and act like him. I must also enter my deepest place.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
The opposite of truth is also truth. Only one-sided truth can be embodied in words; In fact, everything expressed or thought in language can only be one-sided. When the Buddha preached the doctrine about the world, he had to divide the world into samsara and nirvana, illusion and reality, pain and redemption. The world itself is everywhere inside and outside me, and it never falls into one-sidedness. No one or thing has ever been pure reincarnation or pure nirvana, and no one has ever been a complete saint or sinner. The world is so shallow because we have an illusion that time is real. Time has no entity.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
You can't learn from the past, and you can't learn from the future. Don't all sadness, all self-abuse and all fears exist in time? Once time is conquered and destroyed, can't we conquer all the sufferings and evils in the world?
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
He no longer pursues the essence, and no longer attempts to pursue his own goals on the other side of this phenomenal world. When one looks at it with childlike eyes, the world is so beautiful: the moon and stars in the night sky are beautiful, and streams, beaches, forests and rocks, goats and scarabs, flowers and butterflies are all beautiful. When a person can be so simple, so awakened, so focused on the present, and walk through the world without doubt, life is really a kind of enjoyment. The sunshine is refreshing, the shade is refreshing, the taste of the stream reservoir is refreshing, and the taste of pumpkin and banana is refreshing.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
? Is there anything you want to learn from teachers and teachers, but they have taught you a lot, but they can't teach you? He went on to think: that is the self, and I want to know the meaning and essence of the self. I always wanted to get rid of myself and conquer myself. However, I have never been able to conquer myself. I just lied to it, evaded it, evaded it. Indeed, nothing in the world can occupy all my thoughts like myself. This is a mystery: I exist, and I am the only independent individual different from anyone else.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
However, he still envies the world. The more he becomes similar to the world, the more he envies them. He especially envies what ordinary people lack: the world's great perception of their lives, their profound joy and sadness, and the anxiety and sweet happiness brought by the eternal power to push them to love.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
I know through my soul and body that corruption is necessary. I must experience greed, I must pursue wealth, experience nausea and fall into the abyss of despair. Learn to love this world, and stop comparing it with a world of desire and imagination or a false and perfect fantasy. Learn to accept the world as it is, love it and be happy to belong to it.
Hesse Siddhartha
He no longer distinguishes between different voices, such as joyful voice and crying voice, childish voice and bold voice; All the private lamentations, the laughter of the wise, the cries of the angry and the groans of the dying are intertwined. All the voices, all the goals, all the desires, all the good and evil, all the sadness and joy together form a unified world, all of which are integrated into the endless process of all things, and all of which together constitute the eternal melody of life.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
Knowledge can be taught, but wisdom cannot. People can find wisdom, embody wisdom in their lives, strengthen themselves with wisdom, and create miracles with wisdom, but people can't impart wisdom. I had this question when I was young, and it was my doubt that drove me away from the teachers. I have an idea, Jovanda, that you will think this is a joke or just a stupid idea, that is, the opposite of every truth is equally true. For example, only one-sided truth can be embodied in words; In fact, anything expressed or thought in language can only be one-sided, and only half of the truth is incomplete.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
My life is really strange, he thought. I took a strange detour. When I was a teenager, I only knew how to worship God and sacrifice. When I was young, I only knew asceticism, thinking and stealth, exploring Brahmins and worshiping eternity in atman. As a young man, I imitated those penitents, lived in the forest, endured the heat and cold, learned to starve and taught my body to be numb. Then, the teaching of the living Buddha gave me wonderful inspiration, and I felt that the knowledge about the unity of the world circulated in my body like my own blood. However, later I had to leave the living Buddha and his great knowledge.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
? Jovanda, I think love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important for great thinkers to study, explain or despise the world; But I think the only important thing is to love the world, not despise it. We should not hate each other, but treat the world, ourselves and all life with love, praise and respect. ?
? I understand you, but that's what the Buddha said. He preached tolerance, self-denial, compassion and forbearance without love. He forbade us to be bound by worldly love. ?
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
He thinks it's good to experience everything the world needs to know. When I was a child, I knew that worldly pleasures and wealth were evil. I have known this for a long time, but I have just experienced it. Now I know what it means not only intellectually, but also with my eyes, my heart and my appetite. I'm glad to know that. Experience is your best teacher.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
Wisdom cannot be expressed. The wisdom expressed by the wise man's strategy always sounds like stupidity.
Hesse Siddhartha
The world itself is everywhere inside and outside me, and it never falls into one-sidedness. No one or thing has ever been pure reincarnation or nirvana, and no one has ever been a complete saint or sinner. The world is so shallow because we have an illusion that time is real. Time has no substance, Jovanda, and I have realized this many times. And if time is not real, then the so-called dividing line between the world and eternity, pain and bliss, good and evil is just an illusion.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
Like a veil, like a mist, a kind of mental boredom is deposited on Siddhartha-getting thicker every day, getting darker every month and getting heavier every year. Just like a new dress becomes worn out with the passage of time, loses its bright colors, becomes dirty and wrinkled, the seams are opened, and there are worn-out and fragile places everywhere.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
What he saw was no longer the face of his friend Siddhartha. He seems to see many other images, a long list of endless images. Hundreds, thousands, 10,000 and countless images are constantly born and died, but they seem to coexist at the same time. All these images are constantly changing and updating, and they all return to Siddhartha. He saw the image of a fish, a dying fish with dim eyes, with his mouth open painfully; He saw the face of a newborn baby, ruddy and wrinkled, and was about to cry.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
So the two old people listened in silence. The song of the river echoed gently with all kinds of voices. Siddhartha stared at the river, and many images emerged on the flowing water. He saw his father mourning the loss of his beloved son alone; He also saw himself, alone, unable to get rid of the thoughts of distant children; He also saw his son, who was alone, running wildly on the road of burning desire. Everyone is obsessed with their own goals, everyone is troubled by their own goals, and everyone is suffering. The sound of the river is sad, with sadness and longing, flowing to its home.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
He likes the feeling of anxiety, the heavy and terrible anxiety when a large amount of gambling money is pending in a gambling game. He likes that kind of feeling and constantly seeks its repetition, reinforcement and stimulation, because only in this kind of feeling can he experience some happiness, some stimulation and some vitality in his boring life.
Herman. Hesse Siddhartha
I firmly believe that sentence: people are the most cruel to themselves. However, people should only listen to their inner voice and not be driven by any external force, waiting for the moment of awakening. This is a good and necessary behavior, and everything else is meaningless.
Hesse Siddhartha
Life is painful.
Hesse Siddhartha
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