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Deep Analysis of Siddharta: With the Samanas (Pt. I Ch. II) (Patreon)

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2021-07-18 14:37:15
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The call has been answered.

Siddharta and Govinda have set out with the Samanas. 

But why is Siddharta still unsatisfied?

We're talking about the meaning of nirvana, how to tell what part of the spiritual journey you are on, the benefits of letting go, meditation and breath-work, the second noble truth, the limits of language, finding wisdom among sinners, and much more.

Lecture Timestamps:

  • 0:00 false insights leading to true insights 
  • 1:15 what is a Samana? 
  • 3:00 “your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding” 
  • 4:40 marking the catalogue of human experience  
  • 6:00 “The world tasted bitter. Life was pain.” 
  • 7:30 how to tell what stage of your spiritual journey you’re on 
  • 9:00 the second noble truth - trishna/craving/thirst 
  • 9:30 external vs internal locus of control 
  • 10:30 the paradox of desiring not to desire 
  • 12:15 avidya/ignorance/not knowing 
  • 13:00 breath-work, pranayama, and holding onto/letting go of your breath 
  • 15:00 the harmony between body and soul 
  • 15:40 what is nirvana? 
  • 17:30 Siddharta’s Samana meditation 
  • 19:00 Govinda, guardians, friends, and aids 
  • 20:00 how to go past protective guardians  
  • 21:30 Jesus among the sinners, prostitutes, gamblers, and tax-collectors  
  • 22:00 a serious philosophical work could be written entirely in jokes (Wittgenstein) 
  • 24:00 what is meditation? 
  • 25:30 sixty-year-old Samanas who never attained nirvana  
  • 26:00 the limits of language being the limits of one’s world 
  • 26:40 language influences thought (Sapir-Whorf theory of linguistic relativity) 
  • 28:00 Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost  
  • 29:30 preparing to meet Gotama 
  • 30:00 Fight Club and a post-modern blend of Buddhism and nihilism  
  • 32:00 walking on water and where should one find wisdom?

Questions to Consider:

1) If your spiritual journey were a 200-page book, what page would you be on now?

2) Do you agree with the Four Noble Truths discussed thus far? Is life suffering? And is that suffering brought about by desire?

3) Do you have a predominantly internal or external locus of control? Does it change depending on the environment or recent events?

Any thoughts, responses, or meditations - big or small - you might have to share in regards to Siddharta will be deeply appreciated.

Happy reading!

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Deep Analysis of Siddharta: With the Samana's (Pt. I Ch. II)

0:00 false insights leading to true insights 1:15 what is a Samana? 3:00 “your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding” 4:40 marking the catalogue of human experience 6:00 “The world tasted bitter. Life was pain.” 7:30 how to tell what stage of your spiritual journey you’re on 9:00 the second noble truth - trishna/craving/thirst 9:30 external vs internal locus of control 10:30 the paradox of desiring not to desire 12:15 avidya/ignorance/not knowing 13:00 breath-work, pranayama, and holding onto/letting go of your breath 15:00 the harmony between body and soul 15:40 what is nirvana? 17:30 Siddharta’s Samana meditation 19:00 Govinda, guardians, friends, and aids 20:00 how to go past protective guardians 21:30 Jesus among the sinners, prostitutes, gamblers, and tax-collectors 22:00 a serious philosophical work could be written entirely in jokes (Wittgenstein) 24:00 what is meditation? 25:30 sixty-year-old Samanas who never attained nirvana 26:00 the limits of language being the limits of one’s world 26:40 language influences thought (Sapir-Whorf theory of linguistic relativity) 28:00 Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost 29:30 preparing to meet Gotama 30:00 Fight Club and a post-modern blend of Buddhism and nihilism 32:00 walking on water and where should one find wisdom?

Comments

Thomas C

Your video lecture is a wonderful arranging of thoughts, image and music. Although I finished reading Siddharta some time ago, I felt as if I had once again touched the sacred river and returned to this world.

Anonymous

Each and every time i see a character disillusioned with Life itself, à la "Is that all there is?", I think that no one uttered it better than Hamlet in III, 1, it's always good to have it nearby, so here it is :To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause—there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.