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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
reflective
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Me entristeció mucho el final pero sin duda deja su fiel enseñanza
Hay que cagarla recontra cagarla porque en el aprendizaje encontraremos la sabiduría y la paz
Hay que cagarla recontra cagarla porque en el aprendizaje encontraremos la sabiduría y la paz
Hesse adapts the sutras to narrative form. It is this restructuring of oral and written doctrine that makes this piece important, accessible, and striking, not– from what I’ve understood of the sutras– the ideas about wisdom, education, and selfhood. The conclusions Hesse draws are inevitable. His philosophy should not be revolutionary now that Buddhist texts are readily available, but it undoubtedly once was. The germans must have freaked.
I don't even know what to say. Hesse's novel is brief (this edition was 122 pages), simple to read and profound. I could read these same 122 pages over and over and, I believe, continue to find something new to learn or think about.
And, yet, it is so simple that I think it would be easy to miss the lessons.
“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
And, yet, it is so simple that I think it would be easy to miss the lessons.
“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Siddhartha was a slow start but an interesting one almost towards the second half.. the ride will take you to the sweeps and bounds of the journey that treads to finding one’s inner peace, salvation or whatever that concept.. but for me personally, the philosophy of life; the normal everyday life, the follies, toil and torment of it, was more attractive.. a simple perspective of how u can look at your life, differently individualistically… how you feel attached and detached from the same things at the different points in time.
Initially, I started reading it thinking its a fictionalized approach to the story of Gotama Buddha and his enlightenment.. as it turned out, my expectation was just wrong.. it wasn’t about Buddha and his search for wisdom. It is about awakening the Buddha in you, in me, in each one of us. This one got me thinking, brought me down to think more seriously, got me wet my eyes… pushed me down to the tunnel of complex questions.. dragged me to the trail of unity that exist in happiness &sorrow, holiness & sin, right & wrong, wisdom & jest.. got me thinking that the truth as we see it, isn’t just complete. Dragged me to a point where I’m thinking that is there really a “two-side” to things?
The analogy of the river to the eternity was quite brilliant! every moment is new, even though its the same river. then and there it struck me hard the concept of time. You are here right now at this very moment, and at the next, you are not the same, even though in totality your being is the wholesome of all these you’s at the respective moments.
The endless flow of ones being was captivating. A Beautiful representation of timelessness and the illusion of time. Siddhartha tells u not to seek happiness in a desired imaginary perfect world but to seek it through embracing your life as it is.. with all its extremities; with all its urges and passions.
This Siddhartha will linger in my thoughts n spirits for quite some time!
Initially, I started reading it thinking its a fictionalized approach to the story of Gotama Buddha and his enlightenment.. as it turned out, my expectation was just wrong.. it wasn’t about Buddha and his search for wisdom. It is about awakening the Buddha in you, in me, in each one of us. This one got me thinking, brought me down to think more seriously, got me wet my eyes… pushed me down to the tunnel of complex questions.. dragged me to the trail of unity that exist in happiness &sorrow, holiness & sin, right & wrong, wisdom & jest.. got me thinking that the truth as we see it, isn’t just complete. Dragged me to a point where I’m thinking that is there really a “two-side” to things?
The analogy of the river to the eternity was quite brilliant! every moment is new, even though its the same river. then and there it struck me hard the concept of time. You are here right now at this very moment, and at the next, you are not the same, even though in totality your being is the wholesome of all these you’s at the respective moments.
The endless flow of ones being was captivating. A Beautiful representation of timelessness and the illusion of time. Siddhartha tells u not to seek happiness in a desired imaginary perfect world but to seek it through embracing your life as it is.. with all its extremities; with all its urges and passions.
This Siddhartha will linger in my thoughts n spirits for quite some time!
Sweet, short and beautiful –– a running river from which much can be learnt. Like in Steppenwolf, Hesse is concerned with the self and its modes of being, particularly the forgetting of the self and unity. Siddhartha is a novel about following footsteps without walking, about learning without being taught, about being-in-the-world and the understanding and enlightenment that blooms from the garden of experience. ultimately, I didn't find this as compelling as Steppenwolf, and in certain sections both the prose and characters were lacking in dimension and depth –– I think if I read this when I was 15 it would've received a more glowing review, but I still found it beautiful.