Wesley
Wesley
November 20, 2015
4AP
Siddhartha
Assignment
3: To be completed for Monday, November 23, 2015
Read and annotate Chapters 5-6 and
do the vocabulary and reading questions below:
VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT 3 Siddhartha
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual
Clues
Below are the sentences in which the
vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the
sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what
you think the underlined words mean
on the lines provided.
1. ... but in previous times all
this had been nothing to Siddhartha but a fleeting and
illusive veil before his eyes,
regarded with distrust, condemned to be disregarded and
ostracized from the thoughts,
because it was not reality, because reality lay on the
other side of the visible.
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2. No, this world of thought was
still on his side, and it led to no goal when one
destroyed the senses of the
incidental Self but fed it with thoughts and erudition.
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3. Then all the magic disappeared
from the young woman's smiling face; he saw
nothing but the ardent
glance of a passionate young woman.
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4. He ... learned that it was the
grove of Kamala, the well-known courtesan, and that
besides the grove she owned a house
in the town.
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5. Kamaswami is beginning to grow
old and indolent. If you please him, he will place
great confidence in you.
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6. Kamaswami came in, a supple,
lively man, with graying hair, with clever, prudent
eyes and a sensual mouth.
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7. And remembering Kamala's words,
[Siddhartha] was never servile to the merchant,
but compelled him to treat him as
an equal and even more than his equal.
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8. "If I ever go there again,
... friendly people will receive me and I will be glad that I
did not previously display hastiness
and displeasure."
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9. He saw them scold and hurt each
other; he saw them lament over pains at which the
Samana laughs, and suffer at
deprivations which a Samana does not feel.
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10. You are Kamala and no one else,
and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to
which you can retreat at any time
and be yourself, just as I can.
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Answer
the questions using a mix of your own words and embedded quotes with page #’s.
1. When Siddhartha decides to be
"present" in the world, what does he begin to notice
about it?
2. After leaving the presence of
the Buddha, what is it that Siddhartha believes he must
gain for himself?
3. What does Siddhartha's dream as
he slept in the ferryman's straw hut.
4. The ferryman tells Siddhartha
that one can learn much from something. What?
5. When Siddhartha is tempted by
the woman in the village, what stops him from
proceeding?
6. Who is Kamala?
7. Who is Kamaswami? Why does
Kamala send Siddhartha to him?
8. What services does Siddhartha
say he can perform for Kamaswami?
9. What is Siddhartha's attitude
toward business?
10. To what does Siddhartha compare
those who have no "stillness and sanctuary to which
[they] can retreat at any
time"?
November
19, 2015
Siddhartha
Chapters 3 and 4
reading assignment
Assignment 2: Due
for tomorrow, November 20.
Read and annotate Chapters 3-4
(Gotama and Awakening) pp. 25-42
Read and annotate: The Bhudda and
Bhuddism handout
Read The Quest handout
Complete the vocabulary and the
questions on this sheet.
VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT 2 Siddhartha
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and
Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which
the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the
sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what
you think the underlined words mean
on the lines provided.
1. In the town of Savathi every
child knew the name of the illustrious Buddha and every
house was ready to fill the alms
bowls of Gotama's silently begging disciples.
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2. ... and the two Samanas
recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of
demeanor, by the stillness
of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no
counterfeit, no effort--only light
and peace.
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3. You have renounced home
and parents, you have renounced origin and property, you
have renounced your own will, you
have renounced friendship.
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4. Never has it been presented so
clearly, never has it been so irrefutably demonstrated.
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5. The Buddha's eyes were lowered,
his unfathomable face expressed complete
equanimity.
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6. Half smiling, with imperturbable
brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked
steadily at the stranger and
dismissed him with hardly a visible gesture.
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7. ... it was no longer meaningless
and the chance of diversities of the appearances of
the world, despised by
deep-thinking Brahmins, who scorned diversity, who sought
unity.
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8. He was no nobleman, belonging to
any aristocracy, no artisan belonging to any guild
and finding refuge in it, sharing
its life and language.
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9. He was no nobleman, belonging to
any aristocracy, no artisan belonging to any guild
and finding refuge in it, sharing
its life and language.
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Chapters
3 and 4 reading questions
1. What is Jetavana?
2. By what qualities do Siddhartha
and Govinda recognize the Buddha?
3. Why is Siddhartha not very
curious about the teachings of the Buddha?
4. What is Siddhartha's response to
Govinda's question about following the Buddha?
5. What does the Buddha warn
Siddhartha to be on his guard against?
6. What separates Govinda and
Siddhartha?
7. What does Siddhartha realize has
left him "like the old skin that a snake sheds"?
8. What realization gives
Siddhartha the feeling of awakening from a long dream?
9. After Siddhartha decides not to
join the Buddha's community, from whom does he
choose to learn?
10.
After
Siddhartha leaves Jetavana grove, where does he initially intend to go?
AP Close Reading Practice
Read the following passage from
Chapter One of Siddhartha carefully before you choose your answers. In
the passage, Siddhartha ponders his father ‘s dedication as a Brahmin and he questions
his own path following in his father ‘s footsteps.
Did not he, who
had thirst, have to receive a holy quenching of this thirst by drinking
time and time again at the sacrifices,
at the books, at the conversations of the Brahmins?
Why did he, who was irreproachable,
have to wash out his sins every day, have to
expend great effort once more to
attain purification each and every day? Wasn’t Atman
in him; didn’t the ancient spring
flow in his heart? The ancient spring must be found in
one’s own self; one must own it!
Everything else was just a search, a detour; it was to
go astray.
Thus went
Siddhartha’s thoughts; this was his thirst, his sorrow.
He often spoke to
himself out of the Chandogya-Upanishad: “Verily, the name of
the Brahman is Satyam—in truth, one
who knows this enters daily into the heavenly
world.” This heavenly world often
appeared close, but he had never totally reached it;
never had he quenched the ultimate
thirst. Furthermore, among all the wise ones whom
he knew whose teaching he had
savored—even the wisest among them all there were
none who had totally reached the
heavenly world, who had completely quenched the
eternal thirst.
“Govinda,” said
Siddhartha to his friend, “Govinda, beloved, come with me among
the Banyan trees, and we will
practice meditating.”
They went to the
Banyan trees and sat down: here Siddhartha, and Govinda twenty
paces further. When Siddhartha sat
down, ready to speak the Om, he murmured and
repeated the verse:
“Om
is the bow; the arrow is the soul,
The
Brahman is the arrow’s goal
That
one should continuously hit.”
When the usual
time for practicing meditation had passed, Govinda rose up. The
twilight had come and it was time
to perform the cleansing of the evening hour. He
called Siddhartha’s name.
Siddhartha gave no answer. Siddhartha sat with his eyes open,
immersed, staring with his eyes fixed
upon a very far goal; the tip of his tongue stuck
out a little between his teeth and
he didn’t appear to be breathing. Thus he sat, shrouded
in meditation, thinking Om, his
soul sent out like an arrow after the Brahman.
Once, the Samanas
pulled through Siddhartha’s town. They were pilgrims and
ascetics: three scraggly, worn-out
men who were neither old nor young, with dusty and
bloody shoulders. They were nearly
naked, singed by the sun, given over to loneliness,
strangers and enemies of the world,
and estranged, gaunt jackals in the domain of
mankind. From behind them wafted a
hot scent of quiet passion, of a duty that destroys,
of a merciless self-effacing.
1. In this passage, the metaphor of
quenching “the eternal thirst” means most closely
(A) performing the ablutions.
(B) seeking enlightenment/salvation
(C) reincarnation.
(D) self castigation.
(E) sacrifice.
2. Siddhartha’s father is to the
Samanas as
(A) moderation is to extremity.
(B) dedication is to laziness.
(C) Hinduism is to Buddhism.
(D) reincarnation is to Samsara.
3. The Samanas as an archetype in
Western literature would most closely resemble the
(A) beggar.
(B) hermit.
(C) priest.
(D) thief.
(E) wizard.
4. From the context and other clues
available, the word, “Satyam” most likely means
(A) Brahmin.
(B) Om.
(C) Asceticism.
(D) Truth.
(E) Atman.
5. Which of the following
quotations best gives the main idea of the passage?
(A) “Among them all there were none
who had totally reached the heavenly world.”
(B) “He called Siddhartha ‘s name.
Siddhartha gave no answer.”
(C) “This heavenly world often
appeared close, but he had never totally reached it.”
(D) “Why did he, who was
irreproachable, have to wash out his sins every day.”
(E) “His soul sent out like an
arrow after the Brahman.”
