Siddhartha by Herman Hesse is among my favorite books that I’ve reread many times. On the Buddhist subreddit it pops up every once in a while and most claim Hesse is espousing less a Buddhist philosophy and more Taoist. Would you all agree with this assessment?

Sorry I'm not some kid who smokes DMT every summer at a festival I'm somebody that sacrificed almost 30 years of their life doing breathe and studied at the feet of real Masters who dedicated their entire lives to seeking just like me people that renounced working to live their spiritual Traditions as actual Mystics

I've inherited a real hand illuminated grimoire worked on over the course of one of their lives to the point they stopped actively teaching instead, working on the book till their hands hands bled and had to be bandaged because they knew their soul was about to leave their body and they started to send us to work with the other teacher, while they prepared the materials for us to train another generation of Adepts.

So yeah I'm sorry to tell you you did spend your twenties barking up the wrong tree doing drugs instead of doing breath meditation.

Nor am I claiming to have anything figured out I'm specifically saying nothing matters figuring it out doesn't matter and not figuring it out doesn't matter it's all just an experience but you're very attached to having a particular one that involves arguing with me for some reason this morning it's really humorous but I have a lot of other stuff to do today so good day

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