/lit/ - Literature

has everyone read this amazing book? it is mindblowing, analytical, and funny at the same time

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Intellectual literature or just intellectual books?

If latter, pic related.

this is what you want

How to download ebooks? I'd like to try this one out on my iPhone but I don't know how to.

Sure is generic uninspired sheeple in 'ere.

This book just earned a spot on my exclusive bedside bookshelf.

Your thoughts, /lit/?

captcha: earlier wifiesta

hey /lit/

borrowing this tomorrow

what should i expect

About to start this.

Anything I should know before reading? Flipped through the pages and it looks like a doozy.

You'll never forgive me for this.

>>516868

Obviously. Though I guess it wouldn't really be a book for the /lit/tle-brained.

"To answer that, one needs to understand something about what enlightenment is. Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism. Now what is dualism? Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories. Is it possible to transcend this very natural tendency? By prefixing the word "division" by the word "conceptual", I may have made it seem that this is an intellectual or conscious effort, and perhaps thereby given the impression that dualism could be overcome simply buy suppressing thought (as if to suppress thinking actually were simple!). But the breaking of the world into categories takes place far below the upper strata of thought; in fact, dualism is just as much a perceptual division of the world into categories as it is a conceptual division. In other words, human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least."

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