section #2 Siddhartha

In the second section it speaks mostly of enlightenment and how to find it. In this part Siddhartha leaves behind Govinda who has become one of the Buddha's disciples. As i was reading i was able to find certain segments that have a lot of meaning.

"you are clever , O samana," said the illustrious one, "you know how to speak cleverly , my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness." - page 26. Here you can see a conversation between siddhatha and buddha. The message the buddha wants to transfer is that you can be clever , but sometimes too much cleverness is bad. had always been clever , superior to everyone else in a way and he was so used to it that he thought he was even smarter than the buddha, but then buddha outsmarted him and bought him the lesson that he deserved.

"He realized that he was no longer a youth, he was now a man. He realized that something had left him, like the old skin that a snake sheds. something was no longer in him, something that had accompanied him right through his youth and was part of him: this was the desire to have teachers and to listen to their teachings. " - page 30. After having a talk with buddha he realizes that he doesn't want to be lectured but to experience the lectures for himself, to explore the world how ever he wants to do so.

"when anyone reads anything which he wished to study, he does not despise the letters and punctuation marks, and call them illusion, chance and worthless shells, but he reads them, he studies and loves them, letter by letter. But I who wished to read the book of the world and the book of my own nature, did presume to despise the letters and signs. I called the world of appearances , illusion. I called my eyes and tongue, chance. Now it is over ; I have awakened. "- page 32. Siddhartha notices that he has been living life in a very different perspective , he was so concentrated on reading the entire book that he skipped some words along the way , to put it in context with the story. I can connect this paragraph to my life because sometimes you have a task to complete and you focus on the big things on the main ideas and not on the small details that are equally as important.