This is not a contemplation of mine, but, perhaps even more worthy of contemplating than those I am blessed to share with you. It is an excerpt from chapter 2 from the book “Siddhartha” by Herman Hesse, whose full librivox.org audiobook can be found both on my channel's YouTube playlist named “Recommendations to Contemplate on” (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIC9j_VacKf2fJr1aaS2SHuionsv6Pm4W) and here: https://librivox.org/siddhartha-by-hermann-hesse/
I will surely, by now, not reveal a spoiler for you, if I let you know beforehand that the Gautama Buddha mentioned in the excerpt is Siddhartha himself, in the future. Also noteworthy is that the friend he talks with, named Govinda, is consistently addressed as “Siddhartha's shadow” by the narrator. And please: this is a metaphor!
Here goes, for your own contemplation.I had to speed up the reading a bit to make it fit my 15 minutes limit.
