Prohibition and Censorship of Profane/Vulgar Language and Remembered Event are my newest ones. I wrote the other 2 last year. I used my Siddhartha essay to get into a more advanced English course. Remembered Event is a true story about my last talk with my Dad before he passed away.
Siddhartha Argumentative Essay
It is commonly believed that events and experiences can be fully understood and perceived accurately from another person’s point of view rather than someone’s own self. Most would concur that reading an article on how the living situation is in any third world country is an acceptable way to perceive an event accurately. This common way of presumption is completely unbefitting and not acceptable. There are several aspects on coming to an adequate conclusion about a subject matter that are only acceptable. These ideals are exhibited in a novel written by Hermann Hesse called Siddhartha.
Siddhartha is about a boy named Siddhartha Gotama who grew up in his younger years as a Brahman. Siddhartha has already known what the eldest and most wise of the Brahman’s knew as an adolescent. He believed that living everyday with rituals and traditions, to reach bodha (awakened) when no one else has ever done so that way, was a waste of time. Siddhartha believed that there must be another path to achieve awakenedness. Finally, Siddhartha and his friend named Govinda left on a search of enlightenment. Throughout the rest of the novel Siddhartha learned things he never knew before and experienced things in person, in search of a way to achieve enlightenment, rather than perceiving how things are by yourself.
The Buddha expressed in the Sutra of The Four Noble Truths that enlightenment can be achieved when one possesses “the four noble truths”. These four noble truths are, know suffering, abandon origins which are a cause for suffering, attain cessations, know there is an end to suffering, and practice the eightfold path that leads out of suffering. The aesthetics attempt to achieve enlightenment by fasting, meditating, abandoning ones self. It seems logical that these methods would satisfy The Four Noble Truths. Siddhartha believes these conventional methods will not help one attain enlightenment as expressed by Siddhartha “There is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced—he alone among hundreds of thousands. That is what I thought and realized when I heard your teachings. That is why I am going on my way—not to seek another doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone—or die.” Siddhartha understood that enlightenment can not be taught but that it has to brought on by ones own will.
Inadvertently, Siddhartha subsequently possessed The Four Noble Truths at the time of his enlightenment. The first noble truth is “know suffering”. His life with the aesthetics involved losing his desire for property, clothing, sexuality, and all sustenance except that required to live. One would learn to fast, to endure terrible weather conditions, such as the extreme cold, the extreme heat, etc. This is inadvertently how Siddhartha possesses Dukkha, The first Noble Truth. Siddhartha expresses this - “Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas; he learned many ways of losing the Self. He traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue. He traveled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind through all images. Along these and other paths did he learn to travel. He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from self, in the end they always led back to it.” Siddhartha even understands but doesn’t connect the fact that he is actually gradually attaining enlightenment by experiencing each of what he is learning and that what he learned while with the Samana’s was several of The Noble Truths. The second Noble Truth is to abandon origins which are a cause for suffering. When Siddhartha left his father and his whole childhood behind to become a Samana, he, again inadvertently attained Samudaya by abandoning his origins. The third Noble Truth is Nirodha, which is knowing there is an end to suffering. “And Siddhartha's soul returned, had died, had decayed, was scattered as dust, had tasted the gloomy intoxication of the cycle, awaited in new thirst like a hunter in the gap, where he could escape from the cycle, where the end of the causes, where an eternity without suffering began.” Moreover, Siddhartha learned about the end of his own suffering when he was with the Ferryman and he learned to speak to the river. The forth Noble Truth is knowing The Eightfold Path. This is the part of The Noble Truths that Siddhartha wholly learned from his traveling.
Siddhartha knew subconsciously that enlightenment is best not to be perceived at a distance. The Brahmans, Samanas, and the Buddha’s teachings, none of them actually evolved putting themselves in the whole cycle and making perceptions then. They actually involve perceiving how things are from a distance and believing this is adequate. This is what helped Siddhartha to become enlightened. Siddhartha actually put himself in the world. When someone reads the news, they act like it is acceptable for them to make whole hearted conclusions. One can try, but not wholly and accurately, to learn of events by themselves and not actually perceive the event in person and have the emotions acquainted with being present. This ideal makes Siddhartha actually selfless by wanting to find out the world for himself and actually evolve himself in such events.
It is commonly believed that events and experiences can be fully understood and perceived accurately from another person’s point of view rather than someone’s own self. Most would concur that reading an article on how the living situation is in any third world country is an acceptable way to perceive an event accurately. This common way of presumption is completely unbefitting and not acceptable. There are several aspects on coming to an adequate conclusion about a subject matter that are only acceptable. These ideals are exhibited in a novel written by Hermann Hesse called Siddhartha.
Siddhartha is about a boy named Siddhartha Gotama who grew up in his younger years as a Brahman. Siddhartha has already known what the eldest and most wise of the Brahman’s knew as an adolescent. He believed that living everyday with rituals and traditions, to reach bodha (awakened) when no one else has ever done so that way, was a waste of time. Siddhartha believed that there must be another path to achieve awakenedness. Finally, Siddhartha and his friend named Govinda left on a search of enlightenment. Throughout the rest of the novel Siddhartha learned things he never knew before and experienced things in person, in search of a way to achieve enlightenment, rather than perceiving how things are by yourself.
The Buddha expressed in the Sutra of The Four Noble Truths that enlightenment can be achieved when one possesses “the four noble truths”. These four noble truths are, know suffering, abandon origins which are a cause for suffering, attain cessations, know there is an end to suffering, and practice the eightfold path that leads out of suffering. The aesthetics attempt to achieve enlightenment by fasting, meditating, abandoning ones self. It seems logical that these methods would satisfy The Four Noble Truths. Siddhartha believes these conventional methods will not help one attain enlightenment as expressed by Siddhartha “There is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced—he alone among hundreds of thousands. That is what I thought and realized when I heard your teachings. That is why I am going on my way—not to seek another doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone—or die.” Siddhartha understood that enlightenment can not be taught but that it has to brought on by ones own will.
Inadvertently, Siddhartha subsequently possessed The Four Noble Truths at the time of his enlightenment. The first noble truth is “know suffering”. His life with the aesthetics involved losing his desire for property, clothing, sexuality, and all sustenance except that required to live. One would learn to fast, to endure terrible weather conditions, such as the extreme cold, the extreme heat, etc. This is inadvertently how Siddhartha possesses Dukkha, The first Noble Truth. Siddhartha expresses this - “Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas; he learned many ways of losing the Self. He traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue. He traveled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind through all images. Along these and other paths did he learn to travel. He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from self, in the end they always led back to it.” Siddhartha even understands but doesn’t connect the fact that he is actually gradually attaining enlightenment by experiencing each of what he is learning and that what he learned while with the Samana’s was several of The Noble Truths. The second Noble Truth is to abandon origins which are a cause for suffering. When Siddhartha left his father and his whole childhood behind to become a Samana, he, again inadvertently attained Samudaya by abandoning his origins. The third Noble Truth is Nirodha, which is knowing there is an end to suffering. “And Siddhartha's soul returned, had died, had decayed, was scattered as dust, had tasted the gloomy intoxication of the cycle, awaited in new thirst like a hunter in the gap, where he could escape from the cycle, where the end of the causes, where an eternity without suffering began.” Moreover, Siddhartha learned about the end of his own suffering when he was with the Ferryman and he learned to speak to the river. The forth Noble Truth is knowing The Eightfold Path. This is the part of The Noble Truths that Siddhartha wholly learned from his traveling.
Siddhartha knew subconsciously that enlightenment is best not to be perceived at a distance. The Brahmans, Samanas, and the Buddha’s teachings, none of them actually evolved putting themselves in the whole cycle and making perceptions then. They actually involve perceiving how things are from a distance and believing this is adequate. This is what helped Siddhartha to become enlightened. Siddhartha actually put himself in the world. When someone reads the news, they act like it is acceptable for them to make whole hearted conclusions. One can try, but not wholly and accurately, to learn of events by themselves and not actually perceive the event in person and have the emotions acquainted with being present. This ideal makes Siddhartha actually selfless by wanting to find out the world for himself and actually evolve himself in such events.
