Well...my journey is over. Enlightenment has been achieved, and I'm very happy with where I am. After accomplishing my goal and finishing my journey, I think I have learned self control and how to wait. I think I realized this best when I was meditating and when I was being tempted by many temptations like love and money.
Learning how to wait was a tough one. Having to ask people questions about how to be happy and why things are the way they are without getting an exact answer right away was very difficult. When I asked my father to go on my journey at the beginning of my young adult life, he told me I wasn't allowed to go. I had to wait until he was okay with it for me to be able to.
Self control was another big one. When I had to meditate to finally reach my enlightenment, I had to wait and wait and wait (and wait) thinking only about getting enlightened. I was tempted by many many things which made my journey very hard. Love and money were the biggest ones. Trying to distract me, I had to turn them all down very painfully, but in the end, I realized it was just for the best for me.
In the end, I learned that in order for me to be truly happy, I had to go through some very hard times in order to eventually be happy. Asking questions to quench your thirst for knowledge and waiting for good things to happen and going with the flow of life are all you have to do to make your life happy.
Siddhartha, over and out.
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I'm afraid this is one of those books that you will have to (or want to) revisit once you've grown a bit more...
For now, try turning your attentions this way: A Brave New World (Aldous Huxley); The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig); The Prophet (Kihlil Gibran); On the Road (Jack Kerouac)...(not in any particular order--except the Kerouac...I'd have you read that yesterday if I could...)
You MUST read some Jack Kerouac...stream-of-consciousness writing (which is what I lean toward when I'm writing...)
Apparently, I've read that Kerouac wrote out On the Road on one continious sheet of long paper...possibly turning it into this publisher that way...I think they just auctioned off the original manuscript recently...
Anyway, Kerouac it is...find your own enlightenment...
Buddhism is a great way to go, by the way...I do incorporate lots of it into my way of thinking and daily life...the only thing is...coming from the "McDonalds" (no, not the fast foodies) I like "stuff"...things...you know me, you've seen my STUFF...as a matter of fact, you have some of it...hehehe...xoxoxox
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