Wisdom is gained through suffering and through overcoming the difficulties in life.
Let go from unnecessary attachments, such as yearning for eternal life, and cherish what you have.
Accept that the fact that although you’re the king and ⅔ of god, you are not going to live forever the your life is limited like everyone else and nature is more powerful than you. Accept your imperfection.
In the past he didn’t truly understand the meaning of life, feeling numb and thought that material gains and authority are considered the most important in life and gave him happiness. He didn’t care and didn’t bother to think about the what the purpose of life is. He didn’t have wisdom and his heart is empty.
Enkidu’s existence and death let him …show more content…
Enkidu accompany Gilgamesh to experience different kind of challenges change him unconsciously.
Journey and spiritual growth
Human consists both the characteristics of gods and animals.
The serpent steals the plant form Gilgamesh, even a snake wants eternal youth so as other people. If he actually brings back the plant, not only that he couldn’t become young forever, he might get killed by others. The reason why he didn’t go back to Utnapishtim and asked for another plant is because he becomes more mature and he accepts that death is unavoidable.
God set up a series of tests for Gilgamesh to overcome such as Enkidu, Humbaba, and Ishtar
At the end he understands your responsibilities and trying to fulfill it
Everyone wants eternal life and become perfect; but if you think it another way imperfection is perfection, doing meaning things in a limited lifetime, human’s desire is unlimited and intense. If we live forever, then we would never learn to cherish what we have and we would try to conquer more and more which would cause suffering in our lifetime. Everyone wants to be happy and avoid suffering, but they don’t understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. They believe that external conditions are the real causes of happiness, as a result we devote nearly all our time to acquiring these, if we think deeper they also cause us
Let go from unnecessary attachments, such as yearning for eternal life, and cherish what you have.
Accept that the fact that although you’re the king and ⅔ of god, you are not going to live forever the your life is limited like everyone else and nature is more powerful than you. Accept your imperfection.
In the past he didn’t truly understand the meaning of life, feeling numb and thought that material gains and authority are considered the most important in life and gave him happiness. He didn’t care and didn’t bother to think about the what the purpose of life is. He didn’t have wisdom and his heart is empty.
Enkidu’s existence and death let him …show more content…
Enkidu accompany Gilgamesh to experience different kind of challenges change him unconsciously.
Journey and spiritual growth
Human consists both the characteristics of gods and animals.
The serpent steals the plant form Gilgamesh, even a snake wants eternal youth so as other people. If he actually brings back the plant, not only that he couldn’t become young forever, he might get killed by others. The reason why he didn’t go back to Utnapishtim and asked for another plant is because he becomes more mature and he accepts that death is unavoidable.
God set up a series of tests for Gilgamesh to overcome such as Enkidu, Humbaba, and Ishtar
At the end he understands your responsibilities and trying to fulfill it
Everyone wants eternal life and become perfect; but if you think it another way imperfection is perfection, doing meaning things in a limited lifetime, human’s desire is unlimited and intense. If we live forever, then we would never learn to cherish what we have and we would try to conquer more and more which would cause suffering in our lifetime. Everyone wants to be happy and avoid suffering, but they don’t understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. They believe that external conditions are the real causes of happiness, as a result we devote nearly all our time to acquiring these, if we think deeper they also cause us