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When I read Siddhartha I came upon something really interesting.
When the two friends go to meet Buddha, Govinda wants to desperately sit in on his lectures while Siddhartha is skeptical till he sees the man.
His words, he says, he already knows but his eminence of absolute calm is what strikes him.
He later also mentions how both him and Buddha share the same ideas, despite seeming contradictory.

My question here is: is there really a grammatical truth ingrained in each and every one of us and if there is, is reading philosophy more about the necessary articulation than to really understand?

Film and literature has breached philosophical subjects many times over.
While I am planning on reading Nietzsche later this year, I can't help but feel that I already know the gist of his philosophy. Is this perhaps a misconception that will bring my misunderstanding of his work?

>> No.15405976

The boatman in siddhartha was just as calm as the Buddha, but he learned from the river.

>> No.15406010

>>15405976
The river of the modern age is the stream of consciousness of the internet.

>> No.15406019

>>15405931
>dude existence sucks so I'm going to watch my breath until i achieve what could achieve with an ice pick through my nose i.e. lobotomize myself
>this is the most important thing ever because i'm doing it with my attention
Is there anything more insufferable than Buddhism?

>> No.15406041

>>15405931
>anime + Herman Hesse faggotry
There isn't anything more cancerous. Go away, hippie.

>> No.15406070

>>15406019
Read Siddhartha, it's less than two hundred pages.
>>15406041
Just saying, I am born wise and then I read books to make me focus on the specific facets of this wisdom.

>> No.15406120
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>>15405931
Knowledge is just recollection of the forms

>> No.15406162

You can only know which you already (have to be able to) know; just don't put this into stupid Plato terms. >>15406120
Any color you will see you already need to be able to see, so frankly you already see that color. So it is with everything.

>> No.15406168

>>15406162
Makes sense.