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You should always treat these books as keys to a much wider tradition. You can see the first video in the lecture series below.Ĥ – Use Siddharta as a gateway deeper into the heart of literature These books, and the guided literary lectures in the Book Club, will help you to stop procrastinating on your dreams.įor a breakdown of the hero’s journey template underpinning the mythological stories, check out the Hardcore Literature Book Club.

Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Whether you’re reading a meaty book like Melville’s Moby Dick or Cervantes’ Don Quixote, or a more compressed volume like Hesse’s Siddharta, these two books will help illuminate the themes and preoccupations: There are two books I highly recommend for anyone reading a story that details an adventure. 3 – Read around Siddharta with secondary texts Yes, the work is an example of great literature.Īnd, yes, you can appreciate it for its aesthetic splendour alone.īut Hesse’s masterpiece is also a workbook for helping you sort out your life. 2 – Use Siddharta as a mindfulness workbook

You will find answers, and yourself, in the mirror that is Siddharta. Do you have questions about spirituality?.Wherever you are in your life right now, take stock and pinpoint what you need to know. Go into your next Great Book with a set of questions you need answers to. Rilke advised us to learn to love the questions.

10 Tips for How to Read Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartaġ – Go into Siddharta with a set of burning questions Take the Nobel Prize winning Hesse with you, and meditate on the nature of Atman.

I would encourage you to tuck the book into your back pocket and take it into the heart of nature with you. The work is a slim masterpiece, but one that deserves a long, slow, deep read. Siddharta by Hermann Hesse is a life-changing book.