Enlightenment is just the beginning
Siddhartha experiences the bliss of Enlightenment early in life, but this is not the end of the book. Through the process he decided:
"I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha."
He will live like there is no tomorrow, experience extreme pleasure, find true suffering, repent, get enlightened again and so on.
12
108 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Life-long learner. Passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship, philosophy, Buddhism & SF. Founder @deepstash.
Hesse's book starts like a (more serious) Monthy Python sketch, with Siddhartha living a parallel life to historical Buddha. A novel about true enlightenment and about finding yourself.
“
Similar ideas to Enlightenment is just the beginning
The Universe is Change
Marcus Aurelius’s strongest philosophy comes when he speaks on the eternally changing nature of the universe and the acceptance of death. He reminds us that all of us will die, however, we only ...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates