mindfulness

I read the book in my younger days, and I hesitated to reread it. It is said to be a book for hippies, together with Steppenwolf. Well when i read it now it seems to more of a parable, it has a didactic smell from the beginning to the end. But it is still worth reading ( Steppenwolf is more complex). And the end of Siddharta it has a likeness of what people who have had an NDE mentions. I will come to that, but first a short summary of the plot in Siddhartha  The main character has the same name as is used on Buddha and some other things are also quite similar. He is born in a rich family in India but leaves to live in asceticism. He does this with a man called Govinda who soon leaves to follow the real Buddha and to follow the middle way. Siddhartha wants to go his own way, so he stays with Kamala, a rich woman who becomes his lover. He even works so he can buy fancy clothes and presents to her. But he leaves her after a while not satisfied, even if Kamala is pregn...