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Title: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 1-57062-970-6 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A simple, affecting parable of life...Spiritually enriching
Comment: Hesse's tale of a young Brahmin's son about to embark on the adventure of life is a wonderfully simple and concise story - it is a parable about the struggle of life, and has a wonderfully optimistic message.
Hesse's strengths as an author lie in the way he imbues a strong narrative with a dual meaning - one comes away with the impression of having read a good book, but at the same time with the realisation that the story was merely a framework on which Hesse has hung a touching spiritual tract.
Rating: 5
Summary: Siddhartha - A Role Model for the 21st Century
Comment: Steps for enlightenment:
Forsake the love of your family and abandon them in pursuit of an intangible goal.
Abandon teachers and friends and all who seek to help you.
Invest all of your money and emotion into a prostitute.
Abandon unborn child to be raised fatherless in the home and place of business of said harlot.
Disappear without warning, abandoning business obligations and personal relationships.
Go live in a shack down by the river.
When burdened with the appearance of your emotionally distraught child, employ mind games to drive child to run away from home.
If child is successfully driven off, do not give chase.
Follow these simple rules, and you will be the Buddha.
Rating: 5
Summary: An inspiring search for the Tao
Comment: The story seems simple on the surface. I believe it depicts an ambivalent attitude about Buddhism, and favors a Taoist way of harmony. Siddhartha's rejection of dogma or teaching is pure Taoism. But at the same time Hesse shows that inflation and gratifacation of the ego with pleasure, wealth, etc. is also problematic. The most memorable line is "the opposite of a truth is also true. A truth cloaked in words is only one sided." Paradox, the insistence on the present, the belief that wisdom can only be lived but not expressed in words or taught, the unity of samsara and nirvana is entirely consistent with Taoism or Zen and not Buddhism per se. Seek without seeking might be the message of the story. This is only my interpretation and might not be entirely true. Decide for yourself.
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Title: The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0062502182 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 10 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ISBN: 0553208845 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Illustrated Alchemist : A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 006019250X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Magus by John Fowles ISBN: 0440351626 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565846567 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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