I have not spoken to you like this to argue with you, to argue about words. You are truly right, there is little to opinions.But let me say this one more thing: I have not doubted in you for a single moment. I have not doubted for a single moment that you are Buddha, that you have reached the goal, the highest goal towards which so many thousands of Brahmans and sons of Brahmans are on their way.
You have found salvation from death. It has come to you in the course of your own search, on your own path, through thoughts, through meditation, through realizations, through enlightenment. It has not come to you by means of teachings! And--thus is my thought, oh exalted one,--nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! You will not be able to convey and say to anybody, oh venerable one, in words and through teachings what has happened to you in the hour of enlightenment!
The teachings of the enlightened Buddha contain much, it teaches many to live righteously, to avoid evil. But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.
This is what I have thought and realized, when I have heard the teachings. This is why I am continuing my travels--not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die. But often, I'll think of this day, oh exalted one, and of this hour, when my eyes beheld a holy man."
- Excerpts from the book Siddhartha.
2 comments:
Hi !!
after reading the words "who m I ?"
in ur profile..i wondered thr is no post related to ur inner search ...in the blog..coz most were technical..
digged the whole blog nd found this one :)
yes ... going right..nothnig in the teachings.. the search is of alone.. good luck frnd..!!
No..I was so moved by the words that I even forgot to mention..this isn't I whom writing this is Hesse.
There is no post for the Who am I..because there is nothing to be posted. Nothing to be written nothing to be said.
I sing a tune every day..am the bee am the wasp..i am stealing time from everyone and no one..am practicing being the "child people"...not thinking about anything just flowing..flowing and flowing..
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