Agenda:
Warm-up: Landscape of your soul
Review “The Ferryman”
Read “The Son” in small groups
Read “Om”
Review both chapters
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Objectives
I will ask a question and make a comment.
 I will read aloud with confidence.
 I will consider three analysis questions as
I read “The Son”.
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Warm-up
Spend 5 minutes drawing the landscape of
your soul. If it helps you, think of it like a
map of what makes you you.
 Places?
 People?
 Things?
 Colors?
 Symbols?
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“The Ferryman”
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A question and a comment from this
chapter.
• Why isn’t Siddhartha sad when Kamala dies?
What comforts him?
• What makes life indestructible?
• Remember that Siddhartha realized that killing himself
would not have destroyed the bird in his chest, his soul.
It was part of something larger than just the shell of his
body.
• He loses Kamala but gains his son.
Read “The Son” in Small Groups

Read out loud with a group and complete
guided reading.
The Son
How are young Siddhartha’s desires
different than his father’s?
 Of what must Siddhartha remind himself?
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The Son

Siddhartha realizes that his blind and
painful love for his son is Samsara. What
does he then realize about Samsara? (122)
Om
What does wisdom mean to Siddhartha?
 Is it communicable?
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Om
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What does wisdom mean to Siddhartha?
◦ Understanding that creation, the world, is an
indivisible whole.
◦ Knowledge of the eternal perfection of the
world.
Om
Siddhartha sees his father’s reflection in
the water.
“Everything that was not suffered to the
end and finally concluded, recurred, and the
same sorrows were undergone.”
Everything must finish its cycle.
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Om
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Can you explain the significance of this
quote? (136)
Siddhartha’s Nirvana
Enlightenment/Wisdom

When an individual’s soul becomes part
of the world’s soul.
Om: Siddhartha’s Nirvana
Understanding that creation, the world, is
an indivisible whole.
 Knowledge of the eternal perfection
(completeness) of the world. Everything is
in order.
 To understand that one must simply love
and enjoy the world in all its aspects,
good and bad.
 Eternal peace with the world
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