IUF 1000 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 IUF1000
9 Sep 2016
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Knowledge vs wisdom: knowledge:taught, seek, wisdom; understanding, gain, Siddhartha : wisdom an ability to feel oneness . If you think you have wisdom, you will judge the ways in which others don"t. Never imagine that you have obtained wisdom. By the end of the book siddhartha views those who he would have originally judged as his brothers: 2. It is good to taste everything that one needs to know . Siddhartha tries a variety of paths,wealth, lust, children, marriage, and he regrets nothing. His sense of oneness with others comes from his oneness with his journey. Siddhartha i needed to sin in order to understand: 3. Not having wealth, but greed: 4. It briefly numbs pain, but no longlasting success/peace will come from it: 5. Throughout story looks for a teacher, teachers can give knowledge, cannot give wisdom. We cannot utter it you cannot teach someone wisdom: 6. It is the river that finally teaches siddhartha after his journey.
