/lit/ - Literature

>>15182540
>but imagine if all people behaved in the exact manner he says in his books
That is impossible, for what U.G let's say stumbled upon is extremely rare. First off, he was fully himself, he was a blossomed flower, totally unadulterated by culture/society/the choking like function of thought. He was 1 in a many 100s of millions >>15181983

>>15039427
Who cares about Buddha, he is worthless along with every word he uttered.
>We have the historic enlightenment of the Buddha, of the Buddha's disciples and lineage, and the Buddhist teachings as evidence.
Hasn't seemed to have done much except distort further and impede further

>>15023630
I agree unequivocally. Lucky people recorded him and wrote his words down.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tC1GULbovo8

>Whether you are interested in moksha, liberation, freedom, transformation, you name it, or you are interested in happiness without one moment of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it's the same thing. Whether one is here in India or in Russia or in America or anywhere, what people want is to have one [happiness] without the other [unhappiness]. But there is no way you can have one without the other. This demand is not in the interests of the survival of this living organism. There is an extraordinarily alert, and alacritous quality to it [the organism]. The body is rejecting all sensations. Sensations have a limited life; beyond a particular duration the body cannot take them.

>It is either throwing them out or absorbing them. Otherwise they destroy the body. The eyes are interested in seeing things but not as beauty; the ears hear things but not as music. The body does not reject a noise because it is the barking of a dog or braying of an ass. It just responds to the sound. If you call it a response to the sound, then we get into trouble. So you don't even know that it is a sound. Anything that is harsh, anything that would destroy the sensitivity of the nervous system, the body cuts out. It is like a thermostat. To some extent the body has a way of saving itself from heat, cold, or anything that is inimical to it. It takes care of itself for a short period, and then thought helps you to take the next step to cover yourself, or to move yourself away from the dangerous situation you find yourself in. You will naturally move away from the cement mixer that is making a loud noise and is destroying the sensitivity of your nervous system. The fear that you would be destroyed because the sound is bad, or that you will become a nervous wreck, and so on and so forth, is part of your paranoia.

>>14641110
>>14641069

>>14631947
>>14631939
You should read him and watch videos of him talking on YouTube before you judge

>>14626481
>>14626463
2/2