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So the meaning of life is to just live it and fuck up and make mistakes and regrets and whatever..?

>> No.18769856

>>18769697
Yeah, just learn from experiences

>> No.18769865
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This book is like 100 pages and I gave up after reading like 85% of it.

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>>18769865
why

>> No.18769944

This and Demian were both disappointing. I'm holding out hope for Glass Bead Game/Magister Ludi but that's it.

>> No.18770140

>>18769697
>Hesse
This fucking hack has a nobel prize lmao

>> No.18770153

>>18769697
This shit sucked ass dropped it on page 20

>> No.18770707

>>18769697
I don't think the book is about the meaning of life, it's more about what life is for humans. Everyone aspires to goals, faces challenges, falls in love, encounters profound sadness etc etc. But that's not what life really is. Life is just you experiencing it in working, eating, waking up, everything, intertwined in constant and unstoppable change. The main character quite literally stops looking for meaning in the book.

>> No.18770715

>>18770707
>Everyone aspires to goals, faces challenges, falls in love
haha yeah

>> No.18770777

>>18769865
bro same exact story with me

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>>18770707
>Everyone aspires to goals, faces challenges, falls in love,

>> No.18771694

>>18769865
>>18770777
What the fuck, this legit happened to me too. Had about 20-30 pages to go and I just set it down and never picked it up again.

>> No.18771746

>>18769865
>>18770777
>>18771694
what the fuck is wrong with you people. who does that

>> No.18772238

>>18769697
The start was promising and the river scenes were nice but the book was lacking. I wouldn't go as far as calling the author a 'hack.'

>> No.18772248

>>18769697
According to that book the meaning of life is to spend the vast majority of it as an arrogant dunning-kruger.

>> No.18772562

>>18771746
I do. Fuck books

>> No.18772623

>>18772562
what the hell this is the literature board

>> No.18772687

>>18769697
Life is ultimately meant to be lived, and a good life is one that is lived. There isn't any way around it.

>> No.18772956

>>18771746
I read a bunch of it because it was recommended, put it down most of the way through, and wasn't interested enough in it that I never felt any compulsion to take it off the shelf again. I didn't feel like I was wasting my time or anything, just a sheer apathy. Thinking about it, I guess I feel that way about Indian philosophy in general. Especially whitey eastern philosophy dilettantism

>> No.18772964

>>18769697
Nope. Christ is the answer, not Buddhism.

>> No.18773085

>>18772562
Based
>>18772623
Cringe

>> No.18773395

>>18769865
I read it like 8 years ago.. it wasn't bad but nothing special really.

>> No.18773398

>>18772964
Nope. Christ was a follower of Buddhism.

>> No.18773423

>>18769697
Just how accurate is this book, on Buddhism?

>> No.18773682

>>18769697
I think the real message of the book is that the meaning of life is impossible to grasp from books, knowledge, etc. It's impossible to learn it, it's impossible to teach it to your children. However, it's still there, you just need to find it yourself.
When Siddhartha met Gotama, he noticed he truly is the Buddha, the Enlightened. However, the ferryman was as enlightened as Gotama, he found his own meaning of life.
Siddhartha couldn't find it throughout his life, because he kept following the steps of others, be it as a śamana, or as a businessman.

>> No.18774898

>>18773398
Nope

>> No.18775659

>>18772964
What makes Christ better than Buddha

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>>18769902
don'know to be honest.

>> No.18776381

>>18775659
Christ asks you to live despite the suffering, and to find delight in this existence. Buddha asks you to stop wanting to live to stop suffering. In fact, that Buddha doesn't ask you to stop living outright makes his teachings quite inconsistent. It's like he wanted to say that you should keep your love for life even after you parted with all your desires, but was too analytically-inclined for his own good. While Christ didn't give a fuck about speaking in contradictions when those contradictions were necessary to accurately convey the idea.

>> No.18776438

>>18769697
I was always under the impression that Siddhartha was written for girls and Demian was written for boys. But both are clearly aimed at young adults not philosophically educated grown ups.

>> No.18776450

>>18769697

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpXsfimrkFo

This is the real lesson of this book