Wednesday Jan. 17 Review

Well, as we all know, it was an A day. Nothing new about that! I read my piece of quality writing from Siddhartha which, by this point in time, we should have all finished!!!! Then I acted as Kim for about a minute as I read her review for the previous day. We then discussed what the class was going to be doing during the exam periods for next week; everyone can relax because we don't have an actual question and answer exam!!!!!! But don't forget that you need to be working on the notes for your three books of choice (from the previously chosen list, of course)! Once that was complete we talked about our walkabouts, specifically about how finding a good service project is hard!! After the walkabout chit-chat we got into the circle to discuss Siddhartha. We talked about Buddha. (For all who must know he was born in 563 BC) We also discussed how many stories from different religions are parallel and how many holidays of today are based on traditions of yesterday. We also talked about the practices of Samanas and how Siddhartha was trying to find the Atman in him by leaving his Self (his physical body). The subject of meditation and the ability to detach yourself from the physical world came up and Cheri gave us her story of the show she saw in Tunisia where the men laid on broken glass and knives!!!! Govinda also came up and we talked about how some people are followers and leaders, and guess what our class is made up of leaders!!! Shocking isn't it!! We also talked about Siddhartha's awakening and how he realized that you can't be taught enlightenment you have to find your own path to enlightenment.