/lit/ - Literature

>>14679280
Wow! Really? Never been there. I am at work, just wrote this off the top of my head, then after posting it realised that no one ITT really gives a fuck about Buddhism anyway...

>>14628549
It really is not for everybody. Originally it was designed as a system of attainment for forest ascetics, those people living in India who had wandered into the forest to fast and perform yoga and meditate in an attempt to attain enlightenment. It presupposes certain attitudes and a certain amount of attainment, or at least familiarity with the idea of moksha. India at the time was an almost unique spiritual landscape, with dozrns of schools of mysticiasm, asceticism and yoga all (more or less) peacefully co-existed. Liberation from delusion and attainment were in the air, it was part of popular culture.
Without this in mind it is impossible to understand Buddhism.