Find yourself, I'm not going to help you

Siddhartha is a book about a man who has a similar story to that of the buddha, he leaves hinduism to pursue asceticism and meditate all the time. He begins to look for the answer to the one question, the big, important question that can't be taught from teachers. He wants to find himself. He goes to the buddha at first for guidance, but he finds that the buddha can't tell him because the only way Siddhartha can find what he is looking for, is to look to himself. He is trying to find the self. He says that each with their own way, they finds escape from the self. The drunk escapes from himself in drinking, the ascetic in meditation, etc.

Also on his journey, Siddhartha learns to live without possessions. For three years he lived with nothing but a loincloth, and he didn't even realize it until the merchant asks him how he can live without possessions- "'I have never thought about it, sir. I have been without possessions for nearly three years and I have never thought on what I should live"(Hesse 64). I am way too bloody sentimental about things to be like that. It would be cool, traveling the land with nothing but what I can carry, but I'm very attached to possessions. Minimalism is a good practice but is very difficult for many people. I don't see how Siddhartha does it so easily.