It wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't a great book either. A story about a spiritual journey from ignorance to true enlightenment. I never went into any true depths when it comes to Buddhism, but I can see where Eckhart Tolle got his inspiration from - being in the Now, freeing yourself of your Ego - ...
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” I read the Modern Library edition, translated by Susan Bernofsky with an introduction by Tom Robbins. I liked this translation and it was easy to und...
Not what I was expecting when I started it, but I enjoyed it. At times is was somewhat dense and the story seemed to be very simplistic at times, though I think this is a positive for the work as a whole. I will likely have to read it at least once more to understand what the message was.
* There may be a little spoiler *The time: an old one. The place: India. There's this guy named Siddhartha, who was everyone's love and joy. A wise and decent young man who inspired everyone around him, but himself. He wasn't content with his life and everything around it, spiritually speaking. He f...
Hermann Hesse's famous novel Siddhartha was published in German already in 1922, but the first English translation didn’t come out before 1951. The story is set in ancient India at the time when Buddha found enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and made his teachings. In fact, the novel’s title as wel...
blurb - An allegorical novel that follows the spiritual journey of an Indian man called Siddhartha during the time of Buddha (6th century B.C.)Beginning with the main character's departure from his Brahmin home the search for enlightenment takes Siddhartha through a series of changes and realization...
A good book, but it is hard to know to what extent it is meant to be just an exposition of Indian religious philosophy in particular Buddhism and to what extent it is meant actually to be an original take on it. Good but also makes me a bit nervous that this work is being approached by a German. S...
This version - http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374/siddhartha (oh, free ebooks and their typos...)An odd little story of the life of a contemporary of Gotama Buddha. Who of course is a Buddha in his own right.
Most religions know of it as "Enlightenment" - when the individual transcends himself and sees himself as one with the ultimate reality. It can be theistic (the Aham Brahma Asmi - "I am the Brahman" or Tat Tvam Asi - "Thou Art That" of Hinduism) or atheistic (the Buddhist Nirvana, based on the Anat...
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