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**Liskaspexia** · 11-08-2011, 07:32 AM

It is known the deep contempt that Nietzsche felt for Buddhism and other important spiritual teachers like Jesus.

Many years ago, in those troubled early youth years, I tried to read Nietzsche after having read Hesse's Demian and Siddhartha, books that sow the seed of love for a life of introspection.

I just couldn't finish that Nietzsche book.

I can't judge his oeuvre because I am not qualified for that but the feeling and taste that his book left was that of sadness and existential pain about life. Seems to me, that Nietzsche suffered too much.

Nowadays, I remember with joy those books of Hesse, and I have found the teachings of Buddha -his Suttas- luminous, liberating and releasing as a pond of fresh water and shade for healing of the wounds of life, for quenching desperation and as the path toward the understanding of true deliverance from suffering.

11-08-2011, 07:32 AM	#4
Liskaspexia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	It is known the deep contempt that Nietzsche felt for Buddhism and other important spiritual teachers like Jesus. Many years ago, in those troubled early youth years, I tried to read Nietzsche after having read Hesse's Demian and Siddhartha, books that sow the seed of love for a life of introspection. I just couldn't finish that Nietzsche book. I can't judge his oeuvre because I am not qualified for that but the feeling and taste that his book left was that of sadness and existential pain about life. Seems to me, that Nietzsche suffered too much. Nowadays, I remember with joy those books of Hesse, and I have found the teachings of Buddha -his Suttas- luminous, liberating and releasing as a pond of fresh water and shade for healing of the wounds of life, for quenching desperation and as the path toward the understanding of true deliverance from suffering.
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