Classic sentences from Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha"

1. When a person pursues something, he will only see what he is pursuing. The reason why he discovers nothing and gains nothing is because he only focuses on what he is looking for, because he is obsessed with his goal. Pursuing means having a goal, while seeking means freedom, tolerance, and abandoning all goals.

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2. I have no right to judge other people's lives, I can only make decisions for myself judge. Meaning and reality are not hidden behind things, but reside in the things themselves and in all phenomena of things. When a person can be so simple, so awakened, so focused on the present, walking through this world without any doubts, life is truly a joy. People should only obey their inner voice, not succumb to the drive of any external force, and wait for the moment of awakening; this is a good and necessary behavior, and everything else is meaningless.

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3. In extremely deep meditation, one can eliminate time and experience all past, present and future at the same time. Then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Therefore, I believe that all existence is the highest good. No matter death or life, no matter sin or piety, no matter wisdom or stupidity, everything is inevitable, everything only needs my approval, everything only needs my understanding and Love; therefore all things are perfect for me, and nothing in the world can harm me.

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4. So chic, so dignified, so conscientious, so frank, so simple and yet so mysterious. Only when a person has penetrated the deepest part of himself can he look and behave like him. I also had to reach into the deepest parts of myself.

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5. The opposite of truth is equally true. Only one-sided truth can be expressed in words; in fact, everything expressed or thought in language can only be one-sided? When the Buddha preached the teachings about the world, he had to divide the world into samsara and nirvana, illusion and reality. , pain and redemption. ?And the world itself pervades me both inside and outside me and never becomes one-sided. There is never a person or an event that is purely reincarnation or nirvana, and there is never a person who is completely a sage or a sinner. The world appears as it does because we have the illusion that time is something real. Time has no entity.

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6. You want to learn from teachings and teachers, but even though they teach you a lot, you can't What is that thing that was taught to you? He then thought: ?That is the self, and I hope to learn about the meaning and essence of the self. In the past I have always wanted to get rid of myself and conquer myself, but I have never been able to conquer myself. I just deceived it, escaped from it, and avoided it. Indeed, nothing in the world can occupy all my thoughts like myself. It's a mystery: I exist, and I am uniquely independent from anyone else.

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7. The heart of the past cannot be obtained, and the heart of the future cannot be obtained. Don't all sorrows, all self-torture and fear exist in time? Once you conquer and eliminate time, can't you conquer all the suffering and evil in the world?

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8. He no longer pursues the essence, and no longer attempts to pursue his own goals on the other side of this phenomenal world. When a person looks at it with the simple and hopeless eyes of a child, the world is so beautiful: the moon and stars in the night sky are beautiful, the creeks, beaches, forests and rocks, goats and scarabs, flowers and butterflies are all beautiful. beautiful. Life is truly a joy when one can be so simple, so awakened, so focused on the present moment, walking through the world without any doubts. The sunshine is new, the coolness of the shade is new, the smells of streams and cisterns are new, the tastes of pumpkins and bananas are new.

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9. I know through my soul and body that degeneration is necessary.

I must experience greed, I must chase wealth, experience nausea, and fall into the abyss of despair. Learn to love this world and no longer compare it with some kind of desire and imaginary world, some kind of false and perfect fantasy. Learn to accept the world as it is, love it, and rejoice in belonging to it.

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10. He no longer distinguishes between different sounds? Such as the sound of joy and the sound of crying, the childish sound and the majestic sound ;All the laments of private individuals, the laughter of wise men, the shouts of angry men, and the groans of the dying are integrated into each other, entangled and intertwined with each other, entangled in thousands of ways, and all sounds, all goals, all Desire, all good and evil, sorrow and joy, all of these together constitute a unified world, all of these combine to form the endless process of all things, all of these combine to form a unified world. the eternal melody of life.

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11. My life is indeed strange, he thought, taking strange detours. When I was young, I only knew how to worship gods and offer sacrifices. When I was young, I only knew how to practice asceticism, thinking and sneaking, exploring Brahman, and worshiping the eternity in Atman. As a young man, I imitated the penitents, living in the forest, enduring heat and cold, learning to starve, and teaching my body to be numb. Then, the living Buddha's teachings inspired me wonderfully, and I felt that the understanding of the unity of the world was circulating in my body like my own blood. However, later I had to leave the Living Buddha and his great knowledge.

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12. However, he still envied the world. The more he became similar to the world, the more he envied them. He especially envied what ordinary people had that he lacked: their sense of the significance of their lives, their profound joys and sorrows, their anxious and sweet joy of the force that eternally moves them to love. happiness.

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13. Govinda, I feel that love is the most important thing in the world. Studying the world, explaining it or despising it may be important to great thinkers; but I think the only important thing is to love the world, not to despise it. We should not hate each other, but should treat the world, ourselves and all life with love, praise and respect. ?

?I understand you, but that is exactly what the World Honored One calls falsehood. He preaches tolerance, self-denial, compassion, tolerance? But no love. He forbids us from being entangled in worldly love. ?

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14. Knowledge can be imparted, but wisdom cannot. People can find wisdom, embody wisdom in their lives, use wisdom to strengthen themselves, and use wisdom to create miracles, but it is impossible for people to teach wisdom. I had this doubt when I was young, and it was my doubt that drove me away from teachers. I also had a thought, Govinda, and you will think it is a joke or just a stupid idea, that is, the opposite of every truth is also true. For example, only one-sided truth can be expressed in words; in fact, everything expressed or thought in language can only be one-sided, only half-truth, and they all lack completeness

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15. It is a good thing to experience personally everything that needs to be understood in the world. He thought that as a child, I knew that worldly pleasures and wealth were evil things. I've known this for a long time, but I've only just experienced it. Now I know it not only intellectually, but with my eyes, my heart and my stomach. I'm glad I know this. Experience is your best teacher.

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16. Wisdom cannot be expressed. The wisdom expressed by a wise man's strategy always sounds like stupidity.

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17. The world itself pervades both inside and outside me and never becomes one-sided. There is never a person or an event that is purely reincarnation or nirvana, and there is never a person who is completely a sage or a sinner. The world appears as it does because we have the illusion that time is something real. Time has no substance, Govinda, I have realized this repeatedly.

And if time is not real, then the so-called dividing lines between this world and eternity, pain and bliss, good and evil are just an illusion.

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18. Like a veil, like a layer of mist, a kind of spiritual boredom is on Siddhartha It settles down - thicker day after day, darker month after month, heavier year after year. Just as a new garment becomes worn over time, loses its bright color, becomes dirty and wrinkled, has frayed seams, and has frayed and fragile spots here and there.

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19. What he saw was no longer the face of his friend Siddhartha, he seemed to see many more Other images, a long series, an endless stream of images? Hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, countless images that constantly come and go and yet seem to coexist at the same time; all these images are constantly changing and renewing , and they all returned to Siddhartha. He saw the image of a fish, a dying fish with dimmed eyes, its mouth wide open in agony; he saw the face of a newborn baby, red and wrinkled, with its mouth open to cry.

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20. So the two old men listened silently. The song of the river of many voices echoed softly. Siddhartha stared at the river, and many images appeared on the flowing water. He saw his father mourning the loss of his beloved son alone; he also saw himself, alone, unable to escape the longing for his children far away; he also saw his son, also alone, walking along the road of burning desire. The road rushes forward. Everyone is obsessed with their goals, everyone is troubled by their goals, and everyone is suffering. The sound of the river is sad, carrying sorrow and longing as it flows towards its destination.

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