This was pleasant. I almost teared up when he was remembering his father at the river. Looking forward to reading his other works. >’You will,`he said, ’go into the forest and become a samana. If you find bliss in the forest, then come and teach me bliss. If you find disillusion, then come back, and let us jointly sacrifice to the gods again. Now go and kiss your mother, tell her where you are going. But for me it is time to go to the river and perform the first ablution.`
I didn't get this book. It was just wooey woo spirituality false enlightment stuff.
herman hesse writes coming of age cinderella stories for middle aged menhe inspires the out-of-shape ambitionless male office worker to resolve his midlife crisis by having an affair, buying a red miata and doing psychedelicsseverely midwit books. an excuse for people with brain damage to peddle mushrooms. whoa.......... so this is what happens when a Western Mind encounters Eastern Philosophy.............. trippy dude........................
>>24678531It's Jonathan Livingston Seagull but you won't get laughed at for reading it.
>>24678565>Western Mind encounters Eastern Philosophy.Ideally this is what happens >The whole world is rotten. Greed, hatred and cruelty are in the saddle. We intend to organize a new empire; a new civilization. It will be called the Middle Asiatic Buddhist Empire, carved out of Mongolia, Manchuria and Eastern Siberia. Communication has already been established for that purpose with Djan-Zo-Lin, the war lord of Manchuria, and with Hutukhta, the Living Buddha of Mongolia. Here in these historic plains we will organize an army as powerful as that of Genghis Khan. Then we will move, as that great man did, and smash the whole of Europe. The world must die so that a new and better world may come forth, reincarnated on a higher plane.
>>24678573god esoteric schizophrenic people are so fucking boring. fucking do something, anything, instead of just saying shit. get a damn job
>>24678565>>24678531The story was nice and the writing flowed gently. Nothing more, nothing less.
>>24678573>>24678584>>24678585>>24678514and above all stop shitting up my board. dont reply to this, i won't read it.
>>24678584Roman von Ungern-Sternberg can't get a job. He's been dead. But here is his descendant
>>24678565>>24678586You write like a woman or a fag
>>24678565But anon, two of his books are on the top one hundred /lit/ books
>>24678612i read them, thats how i formed this opinion
