Laura's review
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Laura's review
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Laura's review
rating:
The whole time I was reading this, I was trying to imagine how it would have struck me if I was a teenager in high school. Would it have felt like a thunderbolt of lightning? Would it have been completely mind-blowing to me in the way that Rilke's poetry was during the time and the way that it is still is for me today?
Siddhartha was not mind-blowing for me, and in some parts, it felt slow, tedious, and pedantic. In some parts, though, I felt like Hesse captured the non-attachment experience of Buddhism quite aptly.
I'll share some of the passages that I liked:
"The sinner is not on the path to Buddhahood, he is not in a process of development, although our thoughts have no other way to imagine these things. No, in the sinner, now and today the future Buddha already exists, his future is already entirely there, you must revere the becoming, the potential, the hidden Buddha in him, in yourself, in everyone." (p. 112)
and....
"Words do the secret sense...more
Siddhartha was not mind-blowing for me, and in some parts, it felt slow, tedious, and pedantic. In some parts, though, I felt like Hesse captured the non-attachment experience of Buddhism quite aptly.
I'll share some of the passages that I liked:
"The sinner is not on the path to Buddhahood, he is not in a process of development, although our thoughts have no other way to imagine these things. No, in the sinner, now and today the future Buddha already exists, his future is already entirely there, you must revere the becoming, the potential, the hidden Buddha in him, in yourself, in everyone." (p. 112)
and....
"Words do the secret sense...more
