/lit/ - Literature

>>19456875
Yes the original Buddha and the original Christ also made their shit up along the way. The most religious thing you can do is B.E. yourself

>>19444597
i believe you are a pseud and, out of desperation, are trying to fix your pathetic, meagre life by copying other people. You will never be happy/ contented because you are a sub-human drone that is so ubiquitous in this day and age. Fettered by this world and its alluring temptations: you will never liberate yourself without self-discipline.
>gib me books to help me
lol you are stupid

>>19046821
>he wasn't invited to the meeting of the seventy quadrillion bodhisattvas on the astral plane when Maitreya expounded the Just B.E. Yourself Sutra
ngmi

>>18817309
>i like playing pretend as one thing that I learned about last month but the other thing I have an equally passing familiarity with has more people doing it
You're doing it wrong, start over.

>>18768804
It is more consistent because the Buddhist says to just B.E. yourself, while the Vedantist says yourself is actually some hyperreal being that forgot it was you and so you forgot you were it since you were so busy with its power of illusion, it of course being you and you being it.

>>17979317
>guys don't be chad you can't be chad but actually just be chad
thanks dude

Just B.E. yourself

>>17186149
Cringe
>>17186171
Sneed
>>17186240
Cringe
>>17186245
Based
>>17186253
Based
>>17186265
Waifupilled
>>17186424
Based
>>17186674
Where's Husserl?
>>17186808
Based
No particular order: Spinoza, Sextus Empiricus, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Nagarjuna, Asanga, Xuanzang, Kukai, Plato, and Frank Herbert.

>>17000307
Thanks bro, going out now

>>16946329
thanks homie

>>16743994
Just B.E. your not-self

>>15306860
thanks bro

>>14849245
There are manuals within different Buddhist texts but contrary to common perception meditation is less about "not thinking" and more about overcoming thoughts had in relation to what is being meditated on. For instance, a particular desire could be meditated on by visualizing its disintegration, e.g. a beautiful woman will age, die and rot.

>>14636936

>>14605961

>>14473205
It didn't work for me

Internet repository of memes

dear anon


these pepes are dleicious.
Thank you from all my heart.
I want to write abojt pepe and wojak so hes also welcome.

:) keep posting

>>13772878
>>13772908
I may very well be projecting my own psychological plights onto this hapless lad; for that I apologize in advance. But, take a look at this anon. He is clearly struggling.

The game is Fate Stay/Night, fren. A simple reverse image search could have told you that much. But I warn you -- Rin Tohsaka’s alluring twintails and voluptuous thigh-highs won't save you.
This phenomenon is exactly what >>13772776 speaks of. This particular anon feels discontent for his current social standing; in turn he seeks refuge in simulacrum—the factitious, representational portrait of a human female. He wishes, unconsciously, to sublimate his erotic desire in an alternative mode—in this case onto a chinese cartoon. And he doubtless self-inserts into every piece of fiction he consumes. So I say to you anon, don't recoil from my penetrating appraisal; instead embrace yourself, reality, and life in its fullest—all of its beauty and struggle alike. One must adhere to the sagacious maxim of the ancient Greeks: Σαυτὸν ἴσθι. This short phrase encompasses the solution to the struggle of human consciousness—be/know thyself. To be thyself you must first know thyself. But to know thyself, you must also be thyself. Once one deciphers this ostensibly inscrutable paradox, he has won. But this task is far from the elementary process I make it out to be; in fact, it’s one that may take a lifetime to achieve. One must wrestle with the antagonistic of drives of the Will; grapple with social norms, mores, and customs; even face the of leviathan syndromes of modernity—industrialization, late capitalism, atomization via digital hegemony—you get the idea. But there is beauty in the struggle, I tell you anon. There is no greater feeling than divulging innermost thoughts, desires, and affinities in another living breathing, corporeal being your and finding that the same or a higher level of reverence and awe with which you yourself carry is reciprocated in your confidant.

I hope this sanctimonious harangue wasn’t for naught and that you take this to heart. I sincerely wish you the best. Just remember fren: We’re all gonna make it.

Is it possible to make friends as an adult? I haven't gone out socially in almost a decade. Feels lonely.

>>13410160
wtf life is great now