"Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse

What is enlightenment? What does it mean, and how can you find it? In the movie The Little Buddha by Bernardo Bertolucci, it explains the relation between people, cultures and the ways that enlightenment effects everyone. "...If the string is too tight it will break. If it's too loose it won't play," this quote is from the movie and inspired my essay as well as many others. In this movie it is a very important quote, it changed Siddhartha's life plan completely, and it was something the monks talked a lot about. Balance is a very important thing in this movie and life its self. The question is through life's journey is, is it possible to live a balanced enlightened life?
This movie is full of questions and answers, but the younger generations in this movie are very unbalanced and frazzled about life. …