Experience is the aggregate of conscious events experienced by a human in life - it connotes participation, learning and knowledge. Understanding is deep comprehension and internalization. In Hesse's novel Siddhartha, experience is shown as the best way to approach understanding of reality to attain enlightenment. Hesse's crafting of Siddhartha's journey shows that understanding is attained not through scholastic, mind-dependent methods, nor through immersing oneself in asceticism or love and the carnal pleasures of the world. While these individual events only bring about more samsara, they cannot be considered distractions because it is the totality of these experiences that allow Siddhartha to attain understanding.
- ISBN10 1471619036
- ISBN13 9781471619038
- Publish Date 1 February 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 January 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English