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Hesse claims that he was surprised that his admirers Buddhist qualify him then that he is primarily Protestant, but Protestant of a special kind, because for him "the true Protestant is one who fights against his own church as well as against others because its mentality makes him prefer evolution to stagnation. And he adds, "in this sense, the Buddha was also protesting."
This is where the key to his thought: No doctrine, no master to think. Like his hero Siddhartha, Hesse has always been impervious to all doctrinaire indoctrination, because for him all doctrine is unilateral and can never embrace all in its multiplicity to achieve uniqueness. The universe contains everything, the thing and its opposite, the good as well as evil, sin and holiness as much as to reach lillumination, we must all feel to grasp the essence. This is so that Siddhartha did, who after a wandering life where he sees all colors, finally understands the evening of his life, all, time, space, desire, while nest quillusion ,. That nothing has value in itself but paradoxically everything has a potential value. He explains to his friend Govinda, skeptical, pointing to a stone: "This stone nest quune stone, a thing of nothing. In a distant time, it will land, and this land will be born a plant, an animal, a human, and as it is likely, in the circle of transmutations, become also a human being, a spirit, I want to recognize well value, it is also God, Buddha, I worship and I love him, not because what may become this or that, but because what is all this for a long time, forever. "Like what we didnt need to proclaim and recite Buddhist mantras to grasp the full depth.