/lit/ - Literature

>>19639403
If not "nothing," what? How do you describe an absolute empty of description? Are you going to worship it as God instead and hope it gives you superpowers? Or will you be an actual nihilist and hold no values? No Buddhist considers himself a nihilist simply because he disbelieves in other philosopher's speculations. There is a middle way...

>>18261501
>I know Sufiism and the Unity of being was formed as a result of Arab scholars studying the teachings of Shankara
The shit this board comes up with alhamdullilah

>>17789571
>People can be afraid of snakes that they superimpose out of ignorance onto the rope despite that snake not really existing, similarly jivas superimpose doership
This makes more sense when the Buddhists use it. Mistaking the rope for a snake doesn't mean existence was the power of maya we wielded against ourselves along the way as we exercised our godhood while piloting our bodies, it means (You) are ignorantly responding to phenomena instead of seeing them as empty of an own self-nature. That a rope could even be mistaken for a snake shows there is no rope essence.

>>17462487
Tell us more, native Latin-speaker.