Siddhartha questions the value of meditation and loss of ego and compares the process to getting drunk or having sex. To what extent do you agree with Siddhartha’s criticism of spiritual escape?
Siddhartha is wise to notice this as a
truth to the value of meditation and the loss of ego and compares it to having sex and consuming alcohol, a substance that could diminishes your health and lowers your judgement
skills. Siddhartha has had a tempting fascination of alcohol and sex throughout his life, even though its against the Buddhist way of life. Even though it is much better both for your mind and your health to be able
to achieve these states of mind on your own without alcohol or sex, Siddhartha doubts the
worth of achieving these meditations if it can be done by ones who can consume alcohol. Siddhartha
doesn't claim that these “numbing” have no worth at all. Siddhartha states that even the goals in meditation, drinking and sex were to “no longer
feel the self, no longer feel the pains of life, and then find brief numbing”. Therefore he admits to there being value in
being able to achieve it, even if it is not valuable to him in particular. The path of medication achieves
it peacefully and riotously, something that most Buddhists would value. To conclude, I would agree with Siddhartha's beliefs, with drinking alcohol or having sex would not make you less of a person, even though moderation within these two activities is needed to a long healthy life.
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