The philosophy behind Siddhartha is that throuhgout life, one already has within them the knowledge and wisdom that one needs to get through life. That there is no need to search throughout your life for wisdom and understanding, that to realize that one already has the wisdom within them is true knowledge and understanding.
The problem wih the western world is that we, and I do include myself, think that throughout life you gain your wisdom from your experiences whereas the philosophy in the book says that experience helps to bring out the wisdom that was already in you. Westerners think that the older one gets, the wiser one gets; Easterners think that you are already as wise as you will ever be at a young age, old age just helps to show it.
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