Topic > Religious authority in Siddhartha - 1316

Indeed two parts in Siddhartha correspond to the doctrine of the Buddha. The first part consists of four chapters dealing with the Four Noble Truths: the truth of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of the cessation of suffering, and the truth of the path leading to the cessation of suffering. Siddhartha suffers from his own ego and human curiosity, he wants to have an empty heart, which according to him leads to true Enlightenment. After realizing that the spiritual world in which he can fight himself will not lead him to Nirvana, he decides to leave. He is scolded by the Brahmins, the Samanas, and even the Buddha, but his hypnotic gaze lets them know that they cannot give him what he needs and that there is no reason to hold him back. The Buddha only teaches how to end suffering by joining the Buddha's path but not achieving enlightenment with him. Since Buddha also achieved enlightenment on his own, he understood that he could not be of any help to the brilliant Brahmin-Siddhartha. After leaving all the instructors, he comes to understand that he himself must learn from the world today and now, and this becomes his first awakening. The second part is the next eight chapters that recall the Eightfold Path, which describes how to end the suffering described in the Four Noble Truths. Siddhartha's transition to the materialistic world brings him