Status Updates From Siddhartha

seguir la iluminación de otro no te ilumina a ti.

“When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal [and] is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.”

“The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing - I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Brahman, Atman, I wished to destroy myself, to get away from myself, in order to find in the unknown innermost, the nucleus of all things…But by doing so, I lost myself on the way.”

“It is not for me to judge another life. I must judge for myself. I must choose and reject…If I were one of your followers, I fear that it would only be on the surface, that I would deceive myself that I was at peace and had attained salvation, while in truth the Self would continue to live and grow…’You know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.'”

loving lo queer que es

Siddhartha en este penúltimo capítulo empieza a sentirse mucho más real, tal vez la previa sensación de superioridad se desvaneció y encontró en la humildad de saber que finalmente era humano como sus semejantes, la capacidad de ver más allá de los actos dichos previamente simples que hacen los hombres-niño, sino pasar a vivirlos y hasta darles un significado en la unidad del todo, de la que él también forma parte