Examples Of Enlightenment In Siddhartha

In the book "Siddhartha" he has experiences to try and reach his goal of enlightenment. Many things lead up to this. His best experience in my opinion was when he experienced the river Siddhartha achieves enlightenment through many different experiences. What I believe to be his biggest journey, experience, or path to enlightenment was when he lived on a river boat, otherwise known as a ferry. He lived with a ferryman on the boat, and learned different things from the river. He learns that the river represents live itself. Life is always moving and flowing along. It is never the same water in a river, and it is never the same exact thing in a lifetime. Something new is always there or going on. The river eventually leads somewhere else. A person always moves on to something new. He or she never is doing the same thing whether it be a job, moving houses, getting new friends, or even raising a child. He needs to listen to the river. A person always needs to be guided or helped along the way. That is how Siddhartha was with his teachers, they guided him toward enlightenment. …show more content…
The answer to that would be yes. He gets to it in what is mostly the same way for whatever he does. It would seem he has a cycle to reaching his enlightenment. He would first figure out what he needs to do to achieve enlightenment. Then he would revolve his life around it. Such as when he was on the river. He lived on the river until he had enough experience to reach enlightenment. Then he moves on to the next thing to be experienced. Siddhartha believes that enlightenment and the things that get you there cannot be taught, they must be