I read it because I was curious. I'm not looking for enlightenment, in fact I don't believe any human ever achieved it (some souls do and then most at that level stop coming back) but occasionally I find that I become more enlightened, as I did reading this and anything of yours I have read. I am American but I guess I don't fit the mold, because I read this and enjoyed it. 😉

“When someone seeks,” said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha