/lit/ - Literature

This reads like an Asian person saying shit harder

I don't get it. It seems like finding enlightenment is some sort of social cope or east Asian equivalent to group-think style progressivism, which allows losers to become NPCs plugged in to the wider social order and feel power and self-belonging.

>DUDE sex and being rich is bad... because it just IS, okay?!!

What relevance does this have to people today, except as a view of another mindset? It teaches nothing. It feels like this (view of pre-modern mindsets) is a distraction from how society is actually progressing and works.

why does it get so much hate here?

>Ends philosophy

class of 2018

>Siddhartha opened his eyes and looked around, a smile
filled his face and a feeling of awakening from long dreams
flowed through him from his head down to his toes. And it
was not long before he walked again, walked quickly like a
man who knows what he has got to do.

>>16052905

What to read after this?

Let's have a Hesse thread.

I've recently read Narcissus and Goldmund, Gertrud, and Siddharta. Each one of them moved me deeply and even made me tear up by the end.

What other works by him should I read? Are there any other authors like him?

>time doesn't exist
>nirvana is sansara
>search for truth is in vain
>abstractions are meaningless unless its love
>only physical objects matter
what did he mean by this?

What other books should I read if I loved Siddhartha?