Siddhartha
Since I will be out over the next three days, and many of you will be with me, I am assigning Chapters Seven and Eight for Monday.
Today’s Question (please answer in one paragraph via the comment feature):
The opening sentence of Chapter Seven is, “For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust, though without being part of it.”
Explain what this sentence means by using information from the previous chapters. Today’s class should be spent composing an answer to this assignment.
Those who are here tomorrow and Friday will be watching the Conrad Rooks’ movie version of the book.
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Siddhartha had long lived in the world of lust, without being a part of it. This means that Siddhartha has been with Kamala and learning the arts of love, without truely loving her. Kamala is the same because if a prostitute loves someone they can’t do your job. This is shown by Siddartha saying “I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? maybe ones such as we are not meant to love.” In this sense Siddartha is saying that unlike the love we have in a western sense but in their sense they feel that they love each other as in respect and teacher and student but not soulmate love.
Sean Darcy 5/6/08
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He did the merchinc job and he did not lick it. He just did this
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And pople run it for him. If I was him I would not lick this job.
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Do it.
“For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust, though without being part of it.” So he lived the life of lust making love to kamala the hooker/courtesan. But page 73 “And yet, my dear, you have remained a Samana.” As for Siddhartha living in the world, he was living how everyone else lived without being a part of it. He was a wall flower so to speak. He was a merchant but his heart and soul were not in it like kamaswami’s. Page 71 “but his heart, with his real nature, he was not there.” Part of a larger paragraph explaining it.
Siddartha want to seperate him self from the world. He wants to find his inner self. He wants to get past the part of birth and rebirth. When Siddhartha was talking to Kamala they figured out that they both don;t love each other. They are detached from eachother. Siddhartha wants to be detached from the world.
Michael Gaudioso
“For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust, though without being part of it.” Means that he was part of the world and all of its tragedies like hunger death and dismay. But at the same time he felt like their was something missing in it. So he would set out to find the part that was not held down by laws or orders in there universe. And him not being a part of it means that his dad sheltered his from it for a long time. So he was unable to see all the bad in the world wile living on it at the same time.
This sentence means quite a few things. Living the life of the world means living the way of society, not living the way Siddhartha wants but how other people do. He did the merchant’s job even though he didn’t like to do it and he didn’t put his whole self into it. An example of this is when he did his job as a merchant. Siddhartha did his job and did it well but he didn’t really care whether he won or lost and it didn’t faze him one way or the other.
He lived in the world of lust because he had never been loved and he has sex with Kamala. He doesn’t really love her but they use off each other because he wants to be detached from her because his point is to be detached from the world. If he wants to be detached from the world he has to learn ways how to be detached and sex is a good example. He is having sex with her but he doesn’t love her.
People in this world depend on each other for things. Everyone depends on everyone else. So by how he’s doing things by getting away from others and going about this situation he’s learning how to be detached.
Nate harris
Quoted statement to affect the wallflower situation, he’s in the midst of life, in a sense going for the motions, but not participating. Like in Chapter 6 Kamola says that he is the best lover, and yet he does not love her. He’s learning about business, about sex, and everything else, and he’s doing them, practicing them, but is not a part of them. He’s always attached from the situation whatever it may be. He’s always analyzing life, rather than living it.
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