This work is cleaner, it removes all the veneer of preconceived thought and pre-sold, to go to the basics of what should be human existence. F. Midal is a philosopher and founder of the Western School of Meditation, and although Buddha's speech accompanies the reader will find no doctrine, no advice to live well and be happy: this is not the object. The plot of the book, it is the extraordinary lives (and painful) free spirits like Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Cézanne, Chogyam Trungpa, who had the courage to get out are the ways, beliefs and certainties comforting of their time to consider another way, less reassuring. F. Midal addresses various topics such as materialism, our relationship with money, work, sex, conception of philosophy of education, the damage caused by religious institutions (including Buddhism). This book is an invitation to open our minds, to refuse conformism, ease, to put beauty in our daily lives, but also to know how to face and endure hardship. Beautiful hymn to life "free" so even if the "path of excellence" is demanding and dangerous. One can ask whether freedom is not a price (too) expensive to afford, especially given the immense solitude that had to endure these "heroes".
