German writer
parents were Christian missionaries in India.
mother was born in India to Pietist Christian
missionary parents.
father was a Russian citizen.
entered a Protestant seminary, but was expelled.
wrote Siddhartha, a fictional story loosely based
on Gautam Buddha and his ideas.
Nobel Prize for Literature-1946
parents were Christian missionaries in India.
mother was born in India to Pietist Christian
missionary parents.
father was a Russian citizen.
entered a Protestant seminary, but was expelled.
wrote Siddhartha, a fictional story loosely based
on Gautam Buddha and his ideas.
Nobel Prize for Literature-1946
Hesse, Hermann
1877-1962 85 years
1877-1962 85 years
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| You must have read Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. He learns many things from the river which you cannot learn from a buddha; just watching the river – so many moods of the river. He became a ferryboat man, just watching the thousands of climates around it. Sometimes the river was happy and dancing, and sometimes very, very sad, as if not moving at all– sometimes very angry and roaring, against the whole existence, and sometimes so calm and peaceful like a buddha. And Siddhartha was simply a ferryman – crossing the river, living near the river, watching the river with nothing else to do. It becomes a deep meditation and a rapport, and through the river and the ‘riverness’ of it he attains: he attains to the same glimpse as Heraclitus... --Osho Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol. 2, ch. 4 |