Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: Life is full of suffering and full of beauty | Yeonmi Park
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2021
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Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the book In Order to Live.
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We in Cambodia went through what North Korea is going through every day. Keep fighting for your people Yeonmi!
I've never heard North Korean life described in such detail. We never talked about the Korean War in school, probably because America failed there. Thank you for informing so many people here- nothing can change until people are properly educated on what North Korea is really like.
its incredible that she can sit in a pod studio with people like lex and JP and freely say "I love humanity" after all of the tragedy she has been through. if that's not powerful i dont know what is
true
Yeah amazing she is not traumatized for life thank god she finally got out of there.
I first read Siddhartha while crossing the Nullabor desert in Australia. ill never ever forget OR loose my copy of this rad little book
You can't go on another person's journey and expect to arrive at your proper location. That's what that book taught me.
My wife saw me watching this clip and said, is he married? These two would make a lovely couple.
Definitely on my top ten as well! Your both such lovely souls ❤️🙏🏼😘💋
Evil will never take over. Thank you Yeonmi, I now see that evil can be overcome by true love, and that damage done by evil can always be healed with love. This was super insightful. Thank you.
I've watched to many of her clips not to watch the full interview. She is a very interesting person.
Reading Hesse’s “the glass bead game.” So good.
Notice taken. Unconditional love from Aus 🇦🇺
Best book! Best interview!!
Hesse is the shit. Steppenwolf is an even better book than Siddhartha, and Narcissus and Goldumund as well as Damien are two books that have absolutely sublime passages. He is just beyond compelling.
I loved Siddhartha. Read it as a teen and an adult and found it amazing. I tried Steppenwolf recently and was disappointed. To me, it felt immature and self-indulgent, like something written by an undergraduate student.
tell me about it
@@googleisretarded7618 Funnily I felt the other way round. Read Steppenwolf as a teen and liked it ok. Read Sid recently and really liked but felt like it was a bit limited in depth (though I don't want to overstate that as loved.)
Reread Steppenwolf and was totally blown away. On a superficial level I think it was really creative and engrossing, but I think that perhaps what some people see as a naive romanticism in that book is much deeper than that and that there is an honesty in its apparent self-indulgence that Sid glosses over.
I think Sid tries to sum life up a bit while Steppenwolf engages with how mysterious and confusing reality and even our own selves are. And how questionable precisely the value of maturity or a bird's eye view on life is.
To my mind Hesse was aware that when he thought he'd understood life he really hadn't. As Bob Dylan says "I was so much older then I'm younger than that now".
If you ever feel inclined do give it a reread
@@googleisretarded7618give it another chance my friend. Trust me
Great episode
love this story xx
Favorite book. Just love it
I know this book very well. I teach this book. I have never seen or heard of two people experience it the same way. The way she described her response to the book would be difficult to find in the book, yet it touched her in a way that should delight Buddhists.
Hesse is my favorite author! I even attempted to write a song about Siddhartha in a drop tuning (CGCGCeb).
If you tune the eb to an e you get one of the best open tunings out there 🤘
Her voice is so beautiful they had chemistry 😍
She is a brave and compassionate woman. 💜
How true when she says US & Europe are afraid of China to react to North Korean tragedy.
ironically, this vid was published on July 2, which was herman hesse's birthday. i know this because its my birthday too and i remember all the famous ppl who have my birthday. Yay for me! no one cares.
I read this book about a decade ago. Since then, I've learned a lot about Theravada Buddhism, which is the earliest school of Buddhism. Fast forward to the present day when a friend reminds me of the book and I decided to watch this film. I discovered inaccuracies in the story as regards Buddhism. One of them is that Siddhartha "became enlightened" but then left the holy life of a samana and became a householder again and worked as a ferryman. Arahants don't engage in worldly livelihood. But then I remembered that the book was a work of philosophical fiction. Nevertheless, this is a great story.
Finished reading Siddhartha this afternoon. Just moved from Melbourne to Saigon in search of something. I'm not sure what exactly. But I was not ready for the profound realisations that were triggered by this little book. I am somehow more confused and dumb than before I read it.
I took away from the book that Nirvana (heaven) and Samsara (life cycle) are not opposite nor separate but as of one like the river--everywhere at once, no past, no future, no present. In Christianity it would be similar to the father, the son, the holy spirit. Like the stone Siddhartha picks up, he explains its life cycle but instead of looking at the stone in its current state, we must see it in all of its cycles. How we should also see people, moments and events--joy or suffering, pain or ecstasy, in all of its beauty. Everything is as one, as important and connected to one another. I also took away that Mr. Hesse, like many writers of the past, has a beautiful mind and he gained it from knowledge and thinking, not from LSD, weed, or social media. This is something unimaginable to current generations... but maybe now I'm being cynical, instead of open minded....
Siddhartha is a godlike book
Ahhh the beauty of snot whilst I have a cold.
Waiting to get over this fucking cold.
Grrrrrre
may all sentient beings be free from suffering
Amen praise God
Lex needs to look people in the eyes when he's talking to them more. I'm not saying this to hate, I just honestly think it'd go over better with people, specially the chicks
some people get a little uncomfortable/anxious when they do that, which makes them lose their train of thought.
@@Innocence44 Understandable :)
he just seems really shy and respectful to me .... especially around Yeonmi =)
Please add Venezuela 🇻🇪 question topic episode or guest
She is so American and so Korean at the same time it's boggling
I'm married to such a hybrid. Best friend, best lover, best person I have ever known.
@@JaiUneGuruDeja I'm left more questions than answers 🤔
@@JoeNathan42420 that’s part of their magic
I don't mean to be disrespectful but how does your comment about who you are married correlate with mine? Unless you're married to the young lady I originally made a comment about.
@@JoeNathan42420 I could be out of bounds. what I saw in the young lady you mentioned was femininity. she reminded me of my Korean born wife who has lived in the US for that past 30 years.
Lex , and audience do "Vipassana mediation " technique discover by Buddha ..to detached from all kind of suffering .. 🙏
❤❤❤
You should read the introduction to the Glass Bead Game for something more cerebral
Ive been hanging on every word Yeonmi is speaking yet I find myself distracted because she is beautiful.
If Sisyphus is happy, the people of North Korea are dying of ecstacy
brutal
Siddhartha is beautiful; it might be the greatest ever
she said it beautifully as well, “i live for love, all types of it,” as well as lex, “the annoying parts too” as it shows the beauty of siddhartha, the annoying parts are just as worthy of love as the peaks :)
The annoying parts are beautiful too
I’ll give you that, but there’s nothing “beautiful” about pain and suffering; tell that to a mother that has lost a child.
@@caribgirl726 I understand there is no greater suffering than a loss of a child. But what I am talking about is an outlook for life. Be more objective about what you are going through. I mean don't be the suffering, be an objective spectator of your own suffering. If you are able to do that, I am sure you will learn something more about yourself.
The chemistry tho
this is a podcast i can get behind- stay away from the negative stories of NK lex- borderline propaganda
This woman is beautiful , also love her outfit too
Life is not about struggles and pain but life is mixture of good and bad experiences.
It's a terrible terrible Idea to put this on system ,that with lot of stress and pain you evolve .
BS
It may happen otherwise too you may become a better person to bitter person thanks to experiences ..
Has Budhha seen any suffering ?
But still awakened one .
Buddha was born in a royal family had everything in his life money,wealth,everything but he chose to find the reality of life ?
Now the new system is being built on a wrong premises ,that humanity evolved through pain and suffering could happen for some not all.
I agree. This lady is lovely and admirable, but this life is saturated with unimaginable pain and suffering. I don’t see how or why been kicked when you are barely getting up, over and over would be necessary for anything at all. It’s like the universe and/or whatever forces out there hates us, it hates some of us more than others.
@@caribgirl726 Agree you getting up and walking a bit ..here the system creates a situation where you completely fall.
What kind of simulation you are building .I challenge the philisophy is very weak behind God like Technology.
Nerds will save us all let everyone have assets that make them money everyone in different groups making money of different crypto
I read Siddhartha. I didn't really like it. I also find it hard to get any sort of morality messages from works of fiction. It's a portrait of a single person's view on what they think could happen, and invariably is imperfect -typically grossly flawed.
Shes right, nothing does matter!!! Lol, form is empty
Do Korean girls look like AI?
Hinduism
Someone wrote a book about me?
Abbey tyagi yaha kya kar raha h 🤣
It’s embarrassing that the new top podcast is hosted by a guy who speaks like a marble mouthed teenager, who thinks Jordon Peterson and Michael Malice are the smartest men in the world, and that once required sophomore lit (Animal Farm and Siddhartha) are the greatest books of all time. My God we are lost.
You are definitely lost friend, sorry he doesn't have the same love of pokemon strategie books or the twilight series but dont worry there are plenty of snobby scholars like you at Starbucks. Just go to Berkeley and you will find plenty of lost souls to bitch with.
Interesting view opposite to most of the other here
What are the best books then?
That is why Islam is needed.
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"The books you like are all the books I love" (insert Shia Labeouf) JUST DO IT!!!