I just finised reading 'Siddartha'. Hermann Hesse is one of my favourite because of his insights into various religions and his depictions and ideas are rather easier to understand than other books. Out of all this was my best, maybe because of my family background: my parents are all buddhists and i frequently visited shrines when i was young. Eventhough i regard myself as atheist( i dont believe in any god), my mind is dominatly occupied with buddhism. I love , not those non-sense 'cycle of suffering and rebirth', but the idea of meditations, the cultivation of mindfulness and wisdom. These practices makes me calm and peaceful. After having got rid of worries and anxieties, i feel happy and satisfied.
"Siddhartha does not, in the end, learn true wisdom from any teacher, but from a river that roars in a funny way and from a kindly old fool who always smiles and is secretly a saint" At the end, what really inspired me was the river and the ferryman. The ferryman, Vasudeva, is a kind of man that I want to be: calm, benevolent, generous, the mind to learn and his ability to criticize when neccesary.
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