This evening, as I was reading this new
book about this amazing guy called Siddhartha, I saw how he applied several
teachings of Lao Tzu and Confucius to his life. I saw this because he could not
satiate his hunger for knowledge and he always wanted to continue learning to be able to achieve nirvana. What is nirvana? nirvana is a term used a lot to describe when a person has really achieved enlightenment.
He first demonstrates some of Confucius teachings by acknowledging that the best way to become a better-enlightened man was through knowledge and always wanting to learn more. He could not stop learning. He had already learned everything the Brahmins could teach him. "He had begun to suspect that his worthy father and his other teachers, the wise Brahmins, had already passed on to him the bulk and best of their wisdom," Siddhartha pg.3
When he had finally acquired all the knowledge from his father and all the other venerable Brahmins, he still thought he needed more to be able to leave self. Therefore, he joined the Samanas to be able to learn how to leave self. Here, is where his life looks like if the Tao was dictating it. This is because he learns that it is a cycle in which there has to be balance and peace to be able to undertake it. With the Samanas, he finds out that there is actually no way to leave self completely but instead, that you always come back. "One must find the source within one's own self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking a detour, error." Siddhartha pg.5
He applies Tao in this last part by learning that by doing nothing, you are actually doing something. This last teaching could also be portrayed when he meditates and by only closing his eyes and clearing his mind, he was cleansing his spirit. So, this is how one great man can appear to be two others. These are qualities of a great man such as Siddhartha.
He first demonstrates some of Confucius teachings by acknowledging that the best way to become a better-enlightened man was through knowledge and always wanting to learn more. He could not stop learning. He had already learned everything the Brahmins could teach him. "He had begun to suspect that his worthy father and his other teachers, the wise Brahmins, had already passed on to him the bulk and best of their wisdom," Siddhartha pg.3
When he had finally acquired all the knowledge from his father and all the other venerable Brahmins, he still thought he needed more to be able to leave self. Therefore, he joined the Samanas to be able to learn how to leave self. Here, is where his life looks like if the Tao was dictating it. This is because he learns that it is a cycle in which there has to be balance and peace to be able to undertake it. With the Samanas, he finds out that there is actually no way to leave self completely but instead, that you always come back. "One must find the source within one's own self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking a detour, error." Siddhartha pg.5
He applies Tao in this last part by learning that by doing nothing, you are actually doing something. This last teaching could also be portrayed when he meditates and by only closing his eyes and clearing his mind, he was cleansing his spirit. So, this is how one great man can appear to be two others. These are qualities of a great man such as Siddhartha.
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