Status Updates From Siddharta

No, the potential Buddha already exists in the
sinner; his future is already there. The potential hidden Buddha
must be recognized in him, in you, in everybody.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but
finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O
worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards
your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.’

‘When someone is seeking,’ said Siddhartha, ‘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, because
he is obsessed with his goal.

Too much
knowledge had hindered him; too many holy verses, too many
sacrificial rites, too much mortification of the flesh, too much doing
and striving.

. Remember, my dear Govinda, the world of
appearances is transitory, the style of our clothes and hair is
extremely transitory. Our hair and our bodies are themselves
transitory. You have observed correctly. I am wearing the clothes of
a rich man, and I am wearing them because I have been a rich man,
and I am wearing my hair like men o

Never had it been so strangely clear to Siddhartha how
closely related passion was to death.

He won thousands, he threw thousands away, lost
money, lost jewels, lost a country house, won again, lost again. He
loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he
experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high
stakes. He loved this feeling and continually sought to renew it, to
increase it, to stimulate it, for in this feeling alone did he experience
some kind of happiness,

He must gain experience himself. He had
known for a long time that his Self was Atman, of the same eternal
nature as Brahman, but he had never really found his Self,bc
he had wanted to trap it in the net of thoughts. The body was
certainly not the Self, nor the play of senses, nor thought, nor
understanding, nor acquired wisdom or art with which to draw
conclusions&from already existing thoughts to spinnew
thoughts.

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