/lit/ - Literature

>>13018602
thank you for the links! since you're quite knowledgeable about this, perhaps you could answer a question: how important are these major sutras, the Heart, Diamond, Platform, Lotus? i have it in my mind that i really need to understand these in particular, perhaps because of my interest in intellectual history and how these things shape and inform the various traditions and vehicles of Buddhism. i guess in my uninformed way i was sort of convinced that the thing to understand were these major sutras, but i can see that there are quite a lot of other discourses also.

as for getting into Buddhism, speaking only for myself it has only come about as a result of a kind of exhaustion with continental philosophy, which i have read a fair bit of, and which led me into reading quite a lot of Eastern religious and philosophical works, as well as the Traditionalists. but i had never really read the Buddhists in depth, and perhaps it is only now that i am really seeing the appeal. even today i was just thinking how much all things postmodern, that can be so frustrating to think about, become a pretty compelling argument for seeking enlightenment elsewhere...even though i'm quite a novice with this material i've had a really wonderful couple of weeks since beginning an exploration of it in earnest, i really feel quite glad to have discovered these materials. there's also a lot of wonderful synergy between Taoist, Hindu, and Buddhist thought as well, this also is something that makes me feel quite at home in it.

>>12631716
and Land has his moments of Unironic Taoism too:
>what if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?