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I hate perennialism so much bros
>all roads lead up the mountain
No the don't. Some leads to a dead end, some appears to be leading up but eventually ends up at the bottom, and some leads off a cliff.

And frankly I don't even see the appeal. Why would anyone anywhere WANT all religions to be the same? What a gay existence.
>b-but we don't think they're the same
Yeah sorry only the esoteric teachings which are the only parts you give a shit about hence your perennialism.
>imagine choosing to be spiritual and not also choosing to be a sectarian fundamentalist

What do I read to learn meditation?

>>15637634
More bodhipepes please

To have sex is the highest good. Moral actions are those actions that lead to having sex.

>>15276286
Jnana.

The meaning of life is to have sex

What is the single best work of eastern philosophy?

>2000 years later and Christians still haven't solved the problem of evil
meanwhile in based non-Abrahamic religions it was never even an issue

The meaning of life is literally to have sex

Which religion makes the most sense?

>The path to happiness?
>Just stop thinking, bro
>Just don't identify with anything
>Trust me, that's what happiness is

Why aren't learning Sanskrit right now?

How do I learn Sanskrit?

Shankara, Lao Tzu, Nagarjuna, Heraclitus, Spinoza, Plotinus, Leibniz, Schopenhauer

Question, what do these things all have in common?

Which is better: Eastern or Western philosophy? Who is the Eastern equivalent of Plato?

Is meditation real?

Why isn't eastern religion more popular in the West except for among hippies and weirdos? It seems much better suited to the Western temperament than Christianity

What's the most beautiful religious scripture?

What should I read to better understand myself?

Why do Advaita Vedanata, Mahayana Buddhism, Daoism, Sufi Islam, Neoplatonism, Spinoza, and Hegel all agree on the nature of reality?

People here always make fun of nihilism, materialism, and atheism. But seriously, what's the alternative?

>>7882819
>he thinks moving from one place to another equals achievement
Does the water flowing down a river achieve something when it reaches the sea?

>>7429803
>lol every concept I disagree with or think is dumb I'll call a spook and literally nobody can ever refute me because I'll just call all their counter-arguments spooks
top level sophistry