Tawachai

Association with others is overrated in today’s society. Throughout history many human beings have succeeded without the assistance of interaction of others in their life. Understanding yourself has no correlation with the other people in your life. We do not need other people in order to understand ourselves because we can grow from the experiences we have intrapersonally rather than interpersonally. People have succeeded in understanding themselves and bettering themselves independently and without the help of anybody. Buddhist monks have reached the perfect understanding of themselves without help from anybody in the entire world. Buddhism is based on the belief of finding that understanding by yourself and many monks have reached that monk perfectly. The Indian prince himself, Buddha, meditated for six years, to find his enlightenment and ultimately, he understood himself. Buddha is a great example of not needing others to understand yourselves better because he needed nobody to tell him how to act because he was a prince and nobody was in the position to tell him what to do but he strived to become better and as a result he understood himself better …show more content…
He needed nobody else to understand himself and his true happiness. Tawachai understood his own reason for why he became a monk. Tawachai reached true enlightenment with his own understanding of himself and there was no need for another individual to interfere to find his true purpose. Tawachai is a prime example of not needing others to understand yourself because he trained for years to become a monk and he dedicated his whole life to being a monk. He came to realization with himself and not only understood himself physically but also spiritually and emotionally. Tawachai invested himself to finding his own deeper meaning in life and as a result he understood himself to an extent that most people are not able