2010-10-01

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

In views of outsiders, he always lives a perfect life, no matter which form of life. But he is not satisfied, until he experienced everything transcendental and earthly, crisis after crisis, on his own.

Both Siddhartha and Zarathustra returned to the earth. Siddhartha found it dynamical, but stationary as a whole; while Zarathustra required it changes. Zarathustra viewed all these with hatred, while Siddhartha loved them. But both of them are still on their own, forever.

(a bit surprised to see a "western" author giving such an Oriental work)

Works on related/similar themes
Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
東方之旅
The Dharma Buns - Jack Kerouac
達摩流浪者
The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho
波特貝羅女巫

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