/lit/ - Literature

>>22545796
ok retard

How is Nirvana different than death? Why shouldn't I just kill myself instead of spending days and month of my life meditating when It's basically the same as just putting a bullet between your eyes?

>>20014786
thus I have burned

>christer is sticking as a term
Based sons and daughters of noble houses, carry on with your skillful means

>>19737806
Re-reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Reading Spinoza's Ethics

>>19731133
>defeating the taints
A phrase with meaning if there ever was one

Atheist idealism defeats atheist materialism

I'd btfo you all over again but this thread's getting pruned for sure once you devolve into murder fantasies

>>19457624
I take it my rent will be waived for this month, and all months hereafter?

>>19421181

>>19217407
You're thinking of self help. This is not-self help.

>>19193293
>Self = Atman = consciousness = awareness = knowledge (vijnana)
Oh no you made a mess. let me fix that for you
>emptiness = consciousness

>>19099566
*shits mindfully aware of a body shitting*

>>19082806
>being always right allows you to be smug
Damn straight. Keep seething since you can't cope with being wrong.

>>19035510
>live on the frontier
>get insulted by brahmins who call you stinky and unclean
>proceed to destroy their religion so hard they seethe about you for two thousand years

2/?

>>19005978
>Advaita teaches that there are 3 categories into which everything is divided 1) absolute being/existence which alone is truly ‘real’ 2) relative being or appearance, which is considered not unreal but ‘false’ (mithya) and 3) absolute non-being which is equal to complete non-existence
Why was it necessary to overcomplicate Mahayana by adding Brahman to the end of it and having three levels of truth instead of two? Is Shankara a hack?

>>18958808
>you're never going to reconcile the need for an inner spark/spirit with Buddhist philosophy or even praxis (jhanas) without serious mental gymnastics. Vajrayana might be an exception.
Hence all the material composed on the topic invariably includes verses from the author to the effect that "this teaching, given by the Buddha before an audience of seven quadrillion bodhisattvas in the great jeweled lotus palace, was not revealed to the foolish, because they would be too dumb to get it"

>>18885734
Keep seething, play-pretend priest. You have no understand of what you're against anyway, so why take seriously anything you are for?

What is the most /lit/ school of Buddhism?

I'll go with wealth first and then when I'm bored I'll attain enlightenment.

>>18821020
You don’t need to read a book, you just need to realize the self is merely an illusion

>>18803289
Yes
>>18803297
Based

Is this a brahmin breaking general?