what should I read to help me understand Siddhartha by Herman Hesse?
It’s great that you are searching to understand. While you must be able to search within to gain the greatest understanding, you can start your search through what others have written: Wikipedia has some references to check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha Another sitee with links: http://www.helium.com/tm/554731/topic-controversial-crucial-since http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Schopenhauer/schopenhauer.html Just do some Google-ing and read info on the links. You’ll start picking up a lot of people’s interpretations. After all that, go back and read it. And then read it again. It’s that good.
