I am rereading the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. It is one of the few books that I brought with me when I moved to Portugal from the United States, and I came across this passage today.
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Siddhartha is explaining to the courtesan Kamala how he will get the money and the clothes that he needs to be with her. He says:
“If you toss a stone into water, it takes the swiftest way to the bottom. And Siddhartha is like that when he has a goal, makes a resolve. Siddhartha does nothing. He waits, he thinks, he fasts. But he passes through the things of the world, like the stone through the water, never acting, never stirring.
“He is drawn. He lets himself drop. His goal draws him for he lets nothing into his soul that would go against his goal. That is what Siddhartha learned among the samanas. It is what fools call magic and what they think is worked by demons. Nothing is worked by demons. There are no demons. Anyone can work magic. Anyone can reach his goals if he can think, if he can wait, if he can fast.”
This speaks about how simple creating in the world can be. Siddhartha had abandoned all things, the pursuit of worldly goods, to find Atman, to discover the Truth. Then he brings everything he’s learned to the pursuit of a simple goal.
He had a desire to learn the ways of love from this woman. Immediately, he drops like a stone in water to the bottom. Finding the swiftest way, not by action, but by waiting, by listening, by allowing himself to be drawn. The world opens for him.
I am moved.
We have made the creation of things in the world so complicated.
I have used my mind to try to find the way instead of letting that desire drop and allowing myself to be drawn from within.
This is so different from the way we usually create, but it’s not something foreign.
It’s what we did as children before we learned to let our intellect rule our lives. A desire came and we were drawn towards it, and we discovered what was possible.
We did not try to think our way to the path before we walked it. We walked the path to discover it.
This is the natural way. This is a return to our nature. So simple and clean.
It’s something my heart has longed for. It’s something that has always been available.
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