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The provided passages do not directly address the practical implications of Siddhartha's teachings. However, one passage offers insight into what Siddhartha considers valuable skills. When asked what he has to give, Siddhartha states, "I can think. I can wait. I can fast." [3] He believes these are his essential contributions.
Another passage discusses the nature of truth and perception, suggesting that the world is perfect as it is. Siddhartha states, "everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me." [1] This implies that a shift in perspective and acceptance is key, rather than a need for external actions or teachings to change the world. The passages do not elaborate further on how this perspective shift might manifest in everyday life or guide specific actions.
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ou have to worship in him, in you, in everyone the Buddha which is coming into being, the possible, the hidden Buddha. The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life. It is not possible for any person to see how far another one has already progressed on his path; in the robber and dice-gambler, the Buddha is waiting; in…
it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught. This was what I, even as a young man, sometimes suspected, what has driven me away from the teachers. I have found a thought, Govinda, which you’ll again regard as a joke or foolishness, but which is my best thought. It says: The opposite of every truth is just as true! That’s like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it’s all one-sided, all just…
estitute.” “But what are you planning to live of, being without possessions?” “I haven’t thought of this yet, sir. For more than three years, I have been without possessions, and have never thought about of what I should live.” “So you’ve lived of the possessions of others.” “Presumable this is how it is. After all, a merchant also lives of what other people own.” “Well said. But he wouldn’t take anything from another person for nothing; he would give his merchandise in return.” “So it seems to be indeed. Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life.” “But if you…
, Vasudeva?” Vasudeva rose. “It is late,” he said, “let’s go to sleep. I can’t tell you that other thing, oh friend. You’ll learn it, or perhaps you know it already. See, I’m no learned man, I have no special skill in speaking, I also have no special skill in thinking. All I’m able to do is to listen and to be godly, I have learned nothing else. If I was able to say and teach it, I might be a wise man, but like this I am only a ferryman, and it is my task to ferry people across the river. I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an…
. A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real, Govinda, I have experienced this often and often again. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception.” “How come?” asked Govinda timidly. “Listen well, my dear, listen well! The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a…