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A New Friend: The Ferryman
Siddhartha awakes from a dream he asked his new friend a ferryman if he could take him across the river, usually you are suppose to give that person something in return for taking you like a gift or money, but Siddhartha was poor and couldnt give the man anything, but the friendlyness of the man knew he was poor and not make a fuss about it. Siddhartha was pleased with the ferrymans good gestures. -
A Pretty Face
As he was walking through the village he came across a pretty women who was washing clothes on her knees, when he was asking for directions she stood up and made a move on him. He then kissed her breast and feeling the urge of "sex" in his body he stopped and left the dissapointed women as he ran off into the woods. -
Meeting Kamala:
After the mistress nodded and smiled at him he had to see more of her so he entered the town to talk to her. engaging in the conversation he asks her to teach him and be his friend. She rehects his offer becasue she said he needed fine clothes and shoes and money so that he could shower her with gifts whenever he came to see her. -
Kamaswami
At first when he meet Kamaswami he was doubting what he was capable of. He now has a place to live clothes food and shoes, plus he gets his bath drawn daily. Lifestyle is changing for him. -
Turning over a new leaf
Now that him and Kamala are good friends, he is learning from her as she is learning from him. Siddhartha is having people come and trade with him, he meets new people but treats them all the same. After a while him and Kamlala have intercoure and talk about the future and what they both thought about love -
Sidhartha's tranformation: Wealth
Siddhartha is now living life not noticng time passing by and he is now rich. He has his own house, servants of his own, and a garden on the outskirts of town, by the river. Poeple really liked him and came to him for adive and money. All these perks and he had no close friends, because of Kamala. -
Bad Habits
Leading this new life of weath come bad habbits. He starts drinking exsessively and becomes more agitated with anything, going to bed a night in dispair and pain, feeling death in his heart, and having bad dreams about leaving Kamala -
Reflecting on his life
With everything happening he goes to his garden and reflects on his life. While there he medititates and thinks baout his relationship with Kamala and that they had ot end if he wanted a life of enlightment. He relizes he has been pplaying the game of samsara. Then he leaves the city without anyone knowing off it, but leaving unannounced he dosent know that Kamala is now pregant with his baby -
Songbird dream
In Siddhartha's dream about his small songbird in his small golden cage that every morning when he would awaken, it would sing, but on this particular day the bird had died and in result he threw it out the window and onto the road throwing away that bird to him meant throwing away anything that had value to himself. -
Back to the Countryside
At this point in his life he is now feeling miserable and having thoughts of suicide. He thinks about the journeys he has taken in search for enlightenment and how nothing that he did in the city brought him enlightment but more pain. As he is about to slip in the water his spirit is enlightned and he dosent go throw with what he was setting out to do. -
Buddha
After seeing Kamala when she was bit by that snake, she felt she didnt need to see a Buddha but that Siddhartha was a buddha. After all those years he see's his son for the first time and feels good about himself, he feels blessed to know he has a son. -
Buddah lessons
Through his interactions with his son, Siddhartha learns the Buddhist lesson of “right endeavor,” and that it is not possible to impose one’s knowledge of the timeless upon one who is still subject to the limits of time. Siddhartha does not realize he is trying to make his son in his own image, but his son realizes it and resents Siddhartha for doing so. -
Om!
Siddhartha meditates for many days on the loss of his son. His pain and sadness are great. One day, Siddhartha looks into the river, and as the water laughs at him for letting the wound burn so deeply, he realizes that life has an inevitable flow, just like a river. When Siddhartha was a boy, he left his own father despite great protestations. Now his own son has left him. Because of this doubled perspective, Siddhartha sympathizes with his father and his son at the same time. -
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