Siddhartha's Journey To Enlightenment

There’s a saying that you learn something new everyday. Whether, the information is obtained through a teacher, an adventitious coincidence, or through research, knowledge is always gained. Conflicted between what his many teachers had advised him to do, he continued to change his lifestyle and gained many important insights along the way. Had Siddhartha ignored his discontempt and continued to live his life as a Brahmin, it would have been impossible to learn the key skills he needed to reach Enlightenment. Able to quickly learn anything his teachers taught him but the information did not “nurse him, feed him, or satisfy” his thirst to know more, Siddhartha's realization that not all wisdom is taught by a teacher causes him to go on a new journey of self identification. While his scholarly lifestyle taught him to read and write, Siddhartha’s teachers would have never been able to teach him what to write. With the belief that “Writing is good, [but] thinking is better”, Siddartha and others can learn from their mistakes and map out their own lives. By living unique lives, people can use
Love is loosely used for anything that fulfills what is currently wanted or needs but feeling true love is more complex than that. Although he was “loved by everyone” for his physical qualities and capabilities, it meant nothing to Siddhartha, who did not love himself. He believed he needed to know more about how to reach Enlightenment to assuage his soul, but actually needed to get to know himself. In today’s world, people fail to notice how loved by family and friends they are because they, like Siddartha, are “not a source of joy for [them]selve[s]”. By learning to love himself before attempting to bring everything around him to peace, Siddhartha found the ability to keep his love for his son and Kamala strong during difficult