Thank you for sharing your reading and reflections @samstonehill. There are many spiritual teachers who see the world and reality as an illusion and escaping from it is the way. Religious traditions weigh heavily on us and generally do us no good. Trying to find the way is our obligation. The figure of the Buddha is a great source of inspiration that offers me a very nice vision of the path in the version of the writer Hermann Hesse that I highly recommend for being, in my opinion, his best book and a vision that is closer to the Western mind.
I hope you are encouraged to read it and enjoy it as much as I do.
Health, peace and abundance.
Thank you my friend for your words and book recommendation.
Yes, I really feel the truth in that. And unquestionably I feel inspired by the path of Buddha! What an amazing story.
You are not the first person to mention Hermann Hesse and it is a certainty I will find myself a copy to read...
It is my wish that you find it and enjoy it, Hesse is very depressive in his writings, with the exception of Siddhartha, where in my opinion he sings a song to life.
I hope you read it and are encouraged to write an article on the subject, and if you name me, I will read it and comment on it.
Blessings on you until we read each other again.