All 11 Uses of

deception
in
Siddhartha

If I merely were one of your disciples, oh venerable one, I'd fear that it might happen to me that only seemingly, only deceptively my self would be calm and be redeemed, but that in truth it would live on and grow, for then I had replaced my self with the teachings, my duty to follow you, my love for you, and the community of the monks!†
Chpt 3

deceptively = in a manner that is misleading

When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning, he will not scorn the symbols and letters and call them deceptions, coincidence, and worthless hull, but he will read them, he will study and love them, letter by letter.†
Chpt 4 *

deceptions = instances of intentionally misleading; or things done to mislead

But I, who wanted to read the book of the world and the book of my own being, I have, for the sake of a meaning I had anticipated before I read, scorned the symbols and letters, I called the visible world a deception, called my eyes and my tongue coincidental and worthless forms without substance.†
Chpt 4

deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads

All of this, a thousand-fold and colourful, had always been there, always the sun and the moon had shone, always rivers had roared and bees had buzzed, but in former times all of this had been nothing more to Siddhartha than a fleeting, deceptive veil before his eyes, looked upon in distrust, destined to be penetrated and destroyed by thought, since it was not the essential existence, since this essence lay beyond, on the other side of, the visible.†
Chpt 5

deceptive = misleading

When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into suffering and salvation.†
Chpt 12

deception = the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads

It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real.†
Chpt 12

And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception.†
Chpt 12

The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a sinner, but in times to come he will be Brahma again, he will reach the Nirvana, will be Buddha—and now see: these 'times to come' are a deception, are only a parable!†
Chpt 12

But this very thing was discovered by the exalted one to be a deception.†
Chpt 12

For this very reason, I distrust in words so much, for I know, this contradiction is a deception.†
Chpt 12