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Siddhartha
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How can I apply this idea: Siddhartha has every gift his world can give him, beauty, intellect, his father's pride, Govinda's devotion, and none of it touches the thirst underneath, because the thirst is for something rituals and inherited teachings cannot supply?
How can I apply this idea: Three years of extreme self-denial teach Siddhartha every technique for fleeing the self, and also teach him that every one of those techniques always leads back to the self, escape is not the same as transformation?
How can I apply this idea: Siddhartha recognizes the Buddha's perfection instantly and admires his teaching completely, then walks away from it, because he concludes Gotama's own enlightenment came from lived experience no teaching could have handed him, and so no teaching can hand it to Siddhartha either?
