Book Title: Siddhartha
Pages Since Last Week: 890
Pages Since Semester: 979
Weekly Summary: Siddhartha leaves the Samanas and enter the world of materialism. He then leaves this world in search for enlightenment and learns from the river and reaches enlightenment.
Weekly Thoughts: Govinda has followed Gotama for many years and has never achieved Enlightenment whereas Siddhartha did reach Enlightenment without Gotama's teachings. Why is it that some can learn and some do not? You cannot find full understanding of something until you learn it experiencing it yourself. You would never fully comprehend from a teacher, because everything is intepretated. Thus, having a distortion to it. This relates back to "Allegory of the Cave". When you are in the cave you learn from the shadows and see a distorted version of the truth, but when you go outside, you will see the truth. So, to get the best understanding of something, you must learn it through your self.
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