/lit/ - Literature

>>13768688

Being a nihilist simply means you don't have bets on a particular model to bring you well being. And if you don't have bets on anything bet what's already there you better start going along with other people.

Also, the concept of non-self doesn't have a clear one/other distinction, so affecting others is the same as affecting yourself. If you want to get some biology in there you could think of it as the self-preservation system going beyond the personal body.

Lastly, there is no salvation possible any way, so leatting yourself die or something similar isn't going to help you. Nihilism is at most neutral.

And one more thing, do you consider love and compassion to be necessarily dependent on meaning? If you had to choose between them (as you *can* distinguish them), which one would you prefer?

we need to make some /lit/ approved bookmarks you can print out and use

>>8380982
>I think you could live as a patriot in a sort of post-ironic way (not really the right word at all, but a similar kind of result)
Could the word you're looking for be "detached"?

How can a nothing be a spook?

>you need to travel to be cultured

>when u realise your literature and philosophy habit is probably making you more unhappy than you have to be

Anyone else here try to stop reading?

>dfw u threw away all youre books

>>7890445
well met metta mate

>>7890535
>Again, this "I talk about something of which I actually want to argue can't be captured by words" sounds exactly like the Tractatus.
>Will reading into Eastern stuff actually help me?
help you with what, arhat?

>>7877094
they told me that humans are creating their own misery in refusing to be equanimous and in trying to be the exact opposite of equanimous

>>7853145
>>7853153
The Middle Way is always the best Way.

>>7825225
>rejecting a part of being makes one enlightened
The cessation of ego is not an annihilation of ego.

Anyone else remember the "forgotten" meme trilogy? Before Joyce, dfw, and Pynchon?

What are some books that address Buddhism within its historical context (i.e. books that cover the life of the historical Siddhartha Gautama, the development of the various schools of thought etc)

Also general Buddhist lit thread

**And yes, I checked the catalog and all there was was threads that loosely covered Buddhism as philosophy**