The Second Noble Truth In Herman Hesse's Siddhartha

In the book Siddhartha, the author Herman Hesse describes Buddhist teachings in a western viewpoint. Overall this book gets the essence of Buddhist’s teachings. In the book, there are a lot of things that correlate to the Buddhist teachings and there are also things that do not correlate to the Buddhist’s teaching. The book displays the Buddhist’s teaching in a way that it easier to understand. In this paper, I would like to state the Buddhist idea of the second noble truth, which is The Noble Truth of the Origin, and how it is portrayed throughout the book. The Noble Truth of the Origin is the second noble truth of the Buddhist teachings. “ The traditional conceptions of karma and rebirth, veneration of the bhikkhu sangha, and the focus of ignorance and psychological attachments to account for suffering in the world (the second noble truth) have taken second place to the application of highly rationalized
As an adult, Siddhartha went back to living as a regular person did and that is when things changed within him. There are several ways that Siddhartha caused suffering to himself without even being conscious of it. Two suffering that Siddhartha experienced and stood out was when he became greedy and desired sense of pleasure. “He derived a passionate pleasure through the gambling away and squandering wretched money” (Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, 79). This displays that Siddhartha did not care how much money he put into gambling as long as he got more of it back, this created him to have greed. Since he lived his life way it caused him to live an unhappy life during those years, once he got his thoughts together he noticed that he was suffering and saw the cause of his suffering. This portrays Buddhist teaching because in the second noble truth states that greed and pleasure cause suffering and Siddhartha portrayed greed and need of pleasure on this portion of the