
Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)
Hardcore Literature
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The Ducca Succurse Is the Beginning of My New Life
The first of the four noble truths told by the buddha is that man's existence is fundamentally one of suffering. The wonderful thing about sedata is it really does give voice to this suffering within a relatively tight knit structure. We see as well that he falls in love with a woman, and he learns about bodily pleasure. And every time he parts, he thinks, this is the beginning of my new life. Essentially, i am now wise. But we need it to go through ultimate suffering in order to arrive at ultimate insight. As gibran says, your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. So life is pain, as the first of theFour Noble
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