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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of Hesse's "Siddhartha". The novel is analyzed for its philosophical and spiritual lessons. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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text deals with the eastern philosophical and religious traditions that serve as the underpinnings of Buddhism. Interestingly enough, however, the Siddhartha of the title is not the historical Siddhartha Gautama
who would become the Buddha, but rather a relatively poor son of a Brahmin priest in ancient India, who like his namesake, seeks some form of cure from the pain
of life. Throughout the course of the novel, Siddharthas attempts to gain enlightenment take him on a journey through all segments and walks of Indian life and culture, experiencing the
highs and lows of life, and everything in between. Through these experiences, Siddhartha gradually attains a state of enlightenment, but only after realizing that enlightenment was not something that could
be transmitted to him from external teachers, but had to be cultivated internally. Thusly, the text, in the course of its plot, encapsulates core truths of the Buddhist tradition and
serves as an excellent example of the power of the novel form to convey complex and meaningful ideas. This paragraph helps the student explore the overall theme of Siddhartha. If
there can be said to be a single core truth lying at the essence of a complex and storied tradition such as Buddhism, then it might well be said to
be that attachment to the transient things of the world breeds discontent and suffering, by virtue of that impermanence. Likewise, Hesses novel is fundamentally about the workings of the principle
of "samsara" in the world. Samsara, in the Buddhist tradition, is the suffering that one experiences in life as a result of attachment to transient values, and which is inflicted
upon humanity as a karmic consequence of ignorant deeds in previous incarnations (Boeree, 1999b). In other words, it can be said to be the inherited condition of pain which all
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