Are you miserable, confused, and can't find a way out? Then look at this book, today, there is a book jun to talk to you about a deep: "Who am I?" ”
“...... Where did I come from and where am I going? Where is the true self, and where do you go to find him? ......”
Forget it, stop! This question is poisonous, and if you think deeply about it, if you think deeply, you will either scream for your life like Ji Wusheng, or like Siddhartha, you will abandon your glory and wealth and escape into the sand gate.
Who is Ji Wusheng? It doesn't matter, what matters is who is Siddhartha? Siddhartha is the protagonist of the novel of the same name that shujun wants to share.
Speaking of us, Siddhartha, that is a proper rich and handsome man, born the most honorable Brahmin among the four major castes in India, eating that is the taste of the mountains and the sea, mixed with the most core intellectual circle in India, and everyone loves it, and the flowers bloom.
In the eyes of fathers and mothers, this child is the kind of other people's children; in the eyes of the girls, Siddhartha is the kind that is mistaken at first sight. It can be said that I took the best script in my life, and the protagonist of the protagonist.
But! There's but here — he's not happy. As we said, people who are too smart are not unhappy if they think too much.
So what was he upset about? This question is a bit complicated, let the book jun talk to you well.
The book says that man has two selves, one is the "me" as an individual, and the other is the eternal Atman, and atman is Sanskrit, which translates to the self, the meaning of the true self.
And Siddhartha, as a son of a Brahmin, had his goal in pursuit of Atman, and he longed to find that eternal self.
But where is Atman? Someone told him that Atman was among the "me", but what is this "me"? Siddhartha was also confused.
If you can't understand the pain in your brain, then just go out and learn from a master.
Without hesitation, this Siddhartha bid farewell to his parents and turned a friend, Govinda, and the two followed the three ascetics to the forest to asceticism.
Asceticism is really bitter, and a thousand words are omitted here. In short, in short, Siddhartha at that time believed that life was nothing, and that everything in the world was false.
He wants to conquer the "me" and kill the "me" by conquering his own flesh and eliminating the illusion in his heart, so as to reach the state of no-self, and then glimpse the eternal Atman.
However, reality told Siddhartha that he was still too young and naïve. Maybe for a moment and a half he reached the so-called state of no-self, but in the end it all ended with returning to himself.
In fact, what is the state of selflessness, which is the same as the state of an alcoholic after getting drunk and falling asleep, but temporarily forgetting his troubles.
Seeing that this road was about to die, a rumor reached the ears of Siddhartha and Govinda.
I heard that in the Acropolis, there is a man named Gautama, this person is terrible, every breath can cure the disease, you listen, which is a person, it is clearly a Buddha!
All over India there were Buddhist signs about him, and all were willing to bow down in front of his yellow robe and take refuge as his disciples.
So Siddhartha and Devonda rushed to the acropolis to listen to the Buddha's teachings.
After hearing this, Devonda immediately threw himself to the ground and took refuge in the Buddha Gautama. And Siddhartha, to The surprise of Govinda, refused to convert, he wanted to go out of his own way.
It's not that Siddhartha did it, or that Siddhartha didn't admire the Buddha in front of him.
Rather, he discovered a secret: but all wisdom cannot be conveyed in words, and the Buddha did not become enlightened by listening to the teachings of others, so how could he possibly be liberated from the Buddha?
Therefore, if you want to be liberated, you still have to rely on yourself, which is why it is better to seek Buddha than to seek oneself.
So Siddhartha bid farewell to the Buddha and Devonda and went on his own. Siddhartha at this moment is not the same as the ascetic one!
Before Siddhartha was looking at mountains not mountains, seeing water not water, full of arrogance and not knowing it. But after this incident, he is now looking at mountains and mountains, seeing water as water, seeing for the first time the truth of the world, the world that was previously empty suddenly came alive, and it turned out that everything in the world was like this.
At the same time, Siddhartha also realized that he did not understand himself too much, and had blindly pursued selflessness before, but because he was afraid of his true self, and the key to enlightenment was to face his true self, Siddhartha decided to return to the worldly life, experience life, and explore himself.
However, the earthly world is a big dyeing vat, and Siddhartha is not exempt from vulgarity, and he is accidentally dyed and discolored.
He was addicted to gambling, extravagant, mean and miserly, and how unbearable it was to say how unbearable it was. The experience of sensory life gradually eroded all his perceptions of life itself, and he became the person he hated the most.
Until one day, Siddhartha could no longer stand such a self, he left everything behind, threw himself into the river and committed suicide.
But is there a saying that comes from, put to death and be reborn? Or is Nirvana reborn?
In any case, Siddhartha did not die, but became enlightened and born again. The reborn Siddhartha realized that both the previous fall and suffering were necessary, and that the fall killed the previous arrogant "me" who was armed with knowledge, thus making the "me" he is now, a Siddhartha who was happy like a child.
After that, Siddhartha became a ferryman by the river, helping travelers to cross the river while practicing.
He observed the rushing river in front of him day and night, and learned a lot from the river, and he became peaceful and tranquil, and from time to time he could enlighten the travelers who passed by, like a feeling of a high-ranking person in the world.
Just when we thought Siddhartha was finally about to attain enlightenment, suddenly there was a turn of dog blood.
Siddhartha's previous son popped up as a demon, and the plot took a sharp turn. Seeing a master who is about to attain enlightenment, under the undesirable and non-resignation of his son, he becomes a father who is in pain.
Speaking of good enlightenment? What about the fairy wind Dao bone?
Of course not, you think, before the Siddhartha Enlightenment, is still only at the theoretical level, how to make cognition come true, the theory landed? Isn't this threshold for the son what he wants to cross?
After losing his son, Siddhartha fell back into the abyss of more pain than ever before. After several nights of not sleeping, day and night thinking, the emperor did not live up to the hardships, he finally realized that the true meaning of life is the harmony and unity of "me" and all things.
It's quite mysterious, right, and it makes people look confused after reading it, but because of this, "Siddhartha" is worth reading again.
However, then again, some scholars feel that the value of "Siddhartha" is not what the protagonist finally understands, but what kind of Siddhartha read from it by you and me who read the book.
As Hesse research expert Siegfried Unseld said, "Whoever reads Hesse's Siddhartha, who thinks, who experiences, can get rid of external coercion, get rid of the flow, get rid of constraints and shackles on their respective life paths."