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Siddhartha met the Buddha

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Why did he turn and leave?

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There is a book

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Titled "Siddhartha"

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The protagonist

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A young man seeking liberation

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Is also named Siddhartha

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He searched for half his life

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One day

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He actually met the Buddha himself

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A fully enlightened, perfect living Buddha

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Standing before him

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All who saw the Buddha bowed down

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His best friend converted on the spot

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Staying behind as a disciple

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But what about Siddhartha?

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He stared at the enlightened one for a long time

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Then softly said, "Thank you"

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"But I will not follow you"

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After speaking

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He turned around

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And walked into the woods alone

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Think how unusual this is

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A man seeking answers his whole life

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The answer stands right before him

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Within his reach

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Yet he lets go and leaves

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In this action

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Lies the deepest secret of the book

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And perhaps the secret of spiritual practice

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Hello

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Everyone

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I am Wang Lijie

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Today we discuss "Siddhartha"

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By German author Hermann Hesse

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Written in 1922

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Hesse later won the Nobel Prize

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He gave this book a subtitle

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"An Indic Poem"

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A German born in Europe

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Obsessed with ancient Eastern classics

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Wrote a novel

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A bedside book for generations of youth

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Many read it during their most lost moments

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First, let's clear up a common confusion

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The historical Buddha

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Was named Gautama Siddhartha

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Hesse did something very clever

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He split the name in two

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The "Siddhartha" half

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Given to the protagonist

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The name Gotama

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Given to the true Buddha

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So in this book

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Siddhartha and Buddha

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Are two different people

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But combine their names

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And you get the historical figure

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Hesse's split was brilliant

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He's secretly telling you

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That you and Buddha

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Shared the same name

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But were split apart

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Your task in this life

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Is not to chase the lost half

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But to become whole yourself

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Now

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Back to the core question

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Buddha is right there

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Perfect and complete

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Why does Siddhartha leave

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Their dialogue in the book

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Shakes me every time

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Siddhartha says to Buddha

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Your teachings are flawless

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Logically sound

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You explain the world as a chain of cause and effect

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Clear and irrefutable

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You have reached the peak everyone seeks

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There is a tiny crack in your teaching

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What crack

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Siddhartha says: Under the Bodhi tree

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All alone

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At the moment of enlightenment

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What exactly happened

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You cannot put it into words

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What you can teach us

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Is a body of knowledge about the world

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But the secret that made you Buddha

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Cannot be contained in words

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Or passed to me

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Therefore

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Siddhartha says

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No one finds salvation through teachings

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I must go

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To experience that moment myself

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Or be shattered trying

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Do you understand what he's saying

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He's not saying Buddha is wrong

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He is talking about enlightenment

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It is not a piece of knowledge

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It cannot be handed over

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You can give me a complete map

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But you can't give me the experience of being there

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When we analyzed "The Remote Savior"

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We discussed an almost identical scene

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Master Zhixuan heard Ding Yuanying's flawless plan

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And replied with the same sentiment: logically correct

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But not the same as actual realization

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No matter how precise the map is

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It is not the actual land beneath your feet

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After listening

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The Buddha looked at him quietly

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And said something profound

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The Buddha said: You are very clever

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My friend

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You are very eloquent

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Be careful

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Do not be too clever

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Then the Buddha left

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Siddhartha left too

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Between these two

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Neither convinced the other

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Speaking of this

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Don't you think

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This scene

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Hits a sore spot for many today

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In our comment section

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People repeatedly ask the same question

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It's a heartbreaking question

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They say: I understand the logic

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I understand the concept of emptiness

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Impermanence and non-self

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I can explain it all - so why is my life still a mess

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When things happen

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I still feel anxious

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I still break down

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None of those principles seem to help

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The story of Siddhartha

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Addresses exactly this problem

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Understanding

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And attaining

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Are separated by a whole river

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You may memorize the scriptures

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But those are rafts others used to cross

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You are just staring at their rafts on the shore

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Have never even touched the water

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So after Siddhartha left

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what did he do

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This is the book's most subversive and real part

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You'd think he became his own teacher

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went to the mountains to meditate

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and soon reached enlightenment

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His first discovery leaving the woods was

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After years as a Brahmin

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and an ascetic Samana

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I've been trying to destroy the Self

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trying to dissolve the Me

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into the universal essence of Atman

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But the result

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I lost myself

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Of this mysterious Siddhartha

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I know nothing at all

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So he decided from now on

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no more asceticism

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I will be my own teacher

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I will get to know this unknown Siddhartha

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Sounds inspiring, right

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But where did this path

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actually lead him

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It led him straight into the secular world

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He fell for a beautiful woman

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learned from her how to love

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learned to make money, drink, and gamble

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The once lean, holy ascetic

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a fat worldling needing wine and gambling to sleep

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The three skills of his youth: fasting

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and thinking—all rotted away in vice

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he had a dream

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of Kamala's songbird in its golden cage

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The bird suddenly stopped singing

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the bird was dead

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He took the dead bird out

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and tossed it into the alley

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At the moment he threw it away

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Seized by a sudden, immense dread

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He felt he had thrown away everything

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Precious and beautiful in his life

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Waking from the dream

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He was filled with self-loathing

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That very day

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He left the city in silence

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He wandered aimlessly through the woods

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Staring at the water

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He wanted only to plunge in

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To drown himself

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And end this filthy, weary life

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You see

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This man who had seen the Buddha

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This seeker of the Way

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Had become a suicidal drunkard

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But as he let go to fall into the river

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From the depths of his desolate soul

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A single word

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A single syllable

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The ancient and holy Om

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As the word left his lips

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His slumbering soul suddenly awoke

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He recognized his own foolishness

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Exhausted, he fell asleep under a tree

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When he awoke

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A brand new Siddhartha

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Later, he realized something

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The key to the entire book

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As a Brahmin and ascetic, he said

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I tried to kill the Self with fasting

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But the Self hid in my holy pride

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He had to lose everything first

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He had to truly fall

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To roll through greed, lust, and despair

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To truly say goodbye to them

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There is a sentence here

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I want to read to you exactly

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Siddhartha said: Lust and wealth are not good

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I have known this for a long time

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Known it for ages

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I did not just know it with my mind

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I used my eyes, my soul, and my body

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To experience it firsthand

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Think about that for a moment

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Knowing something beforehand

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And experiencing it yourself

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Are two different things

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That is why

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Knowing so many truths

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Truths are known by the mind

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But living

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Is experienced with the whole self

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In Buddha's pure teachings

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This part was missing—the part where he falls

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And climbs out of the mud himself

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The rift Siddhartha saw back then

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Required the rest of his life

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And a total descent

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To finally bridge

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After being saved by the river

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Siddhartha sought no more masters

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He stayed by the river

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With an old ferryman

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And became a ferryman himself

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He began to learn from the river

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Listening to its voice every day

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He understood the river

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It is always flowing

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Yet it is always here

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Every moment is brand new

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The water is at the source and the middle

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And the mouth—past, present, and future

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All happen at once in this river

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The three skills from his youth

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Fasting, waiting, and thinking

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Becoming his true wealth

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This was his entire practice

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He went to no temple

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His meditation mat

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Was the river

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And every moment lived earnestly

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Including the deepest pits he fell into

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But the story isn't over yet

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You think becoming a sage by the river

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Is the end of the journey

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This river

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had one last lesson for him

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And this lesson

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nearly broke him again

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He had a son

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Kamala, the woman who taught him to love

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was on a pilgrimage to see the Buddha

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when she was killed by a snake

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leaving him with an eleven-year-old boy

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And guess what

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This sage who could see through the Buddha

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and dared to reject an enlightened master

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completely lost his composure

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in front of his own son

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The child grew up in luxury

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and was spoiled

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Cold and willful

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he despised his father, a poor ferryman

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He refused to love Siddhartha

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As for Siddhartha

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he could not let go

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He watched his son torment and humiliate him

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yet could not bring himself to be angry

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Hoping with gentleness and patience

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to slowly warm the boy's cold heart

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The old ferryman urged him to let go

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and to ask the river

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But this time

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Siddhartha would not listen

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He who could fast, wait, and teach detachment

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when it came to his son

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became the most ordinary, anxious parent

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Finally

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the boy ran away in the night

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and never returned

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Siddhartha was in agony

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But it was through this pain

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that he mastered his final lesson

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He suddenly remembered

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many, many years ago

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was he not the same

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Standing in the night

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determined to leave his Brahmin father

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to become a Samana

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His father could not stop him then

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and could only watch him leave

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Now it was his turn

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to watch his own son leave

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Is this not the cycle of Samsara

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What hurts even more

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The Siddhartha of the past

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always felt superior to ordinary people

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Mothers worrying over their children

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fathers doting blindly on their sons

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In his eyes

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they were all just overgrown children

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But now

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he felt that same blind, lingering pain

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Suddenly, he understood them

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He even came to love them

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No longer looking down on the world

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he finally became their brother

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You see

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knowledge

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let him reject the Buddha

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But only love

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only this bleeding heart for his son

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truly made him whole

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The end of spiritual practice

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is not to soar above humanity

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but to fall back into the world

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into the pain and attachments of life

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For one who never feels pain

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how can there be compassion

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So you see

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where Siddhartha finally arrived

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was not a gift from the Buddha

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It was because he rejected the Buddha

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and lived his own life to the fullest

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enduring even the most wretched parts

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that he finally arrived

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This raises a difficult, honest question

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one I want to leave with you

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If enlightenment cannot be taught

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if another's truth is only their raft

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then these videos I make

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the scriptures you read

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and the logic you hear

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what use are they

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Are we doing what Siddhartha first did

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holding someone else's raft

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staring at it from the shore

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refusing to enter the water

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I have no standard answer

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I am also just feeling for stones in the river

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Siddhartha did not start a sect

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nor did he write down a doctrine

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He simply became a quiet ferryman

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carrying one person after another

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from this shore to the next

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He cannot cross the river for you

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But he can tell you

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The river

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Can be crossed

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People have truly reached the other side

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Perhaps this book, Siddhartha

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And everything I've said

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Serve only this purpose: they are others' rafts

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Not your destination

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The most they can do

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Is one day

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Make you willing to walk to the shore

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To squat down

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Reach into the water

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And feel the real, cold current

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As for stepping in and crossing

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No one can do that for you

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This book, Siddhartha

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Have you read it?

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While reading

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Which part touched you most?

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The moment he rejected the Buddha?

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Or when he almost jumped into the river?

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Let's talk in the comments

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I really want to hear where your river is

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I am Wang Lijie

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See you next time