/lit/ - Literature

>>11954645
Solve existence.

>>10599480
This, really. Jesus was not even Arahat, and organized Christianity is a sad spiritual joke.

>inb4 triggered Christians

>>10414901
The Buddha saw the world for what it is, anon. Why can't you? Too scary?

>>9569561
>imblyngi

Share your knowledge about Buddhism with me, I came here 2 years ago posting about actual freedom after having spent several years prior investigating zen buddhism.

One user responded with such penetrating words of correction that I woke up from Richard's teachings. From then on I continued to pursue other teachings such as discordianism. I also developed an interest in psychoanalysis, although I never studied it deeply at all.

Some months later, after reading John Berryman's "dream songs" I experienced such profound emotional and spiritual darkness that I felt as though I were going insane with grief. This lasted one night and one morning.

The next night, out of deep desperation I asked for prayer from my Christian family and that day I would say that I experienced what it meant to be born again.

So I am now here again, 2 years later, contemplating the existence of God yet again and weighing my present beliefs with the path purported by the Buddha.

If you have any insight at all, please share with me. I would appreciate it a lot.

Are Buddhist ethics and Buddhist liberation two things that can be approached isolated or are they necessarily intertwined?

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Existential Crisis Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Self Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha

How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and of reincarnation? If there is no self, who is it that reincarnates?

How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and moralfaggotry? If there is no self, who can commit or be victim to bad deeds?

How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and of enlightenment? If there is no self, who is there to enlighten?

hi every1 im new!!!!!!! performs bhumisparsha my name is siddhartha but u can call me 8UdDh4!!!!!!!! lol...as you can see im very mindful!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet mindful ppl like me _... im 2579 years old (im awakened 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 sit under bodhi trees w/o myself (there is no self only atman if you dont like it deal w/it) bcuz its SOOOO enlightening!!!! its mindful 2 of course but i want to meet more mindful beings =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol...neways i hope 2 meet lots of mindful beings here to possibly enlighten!!!!
OMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ←- me centerin my being!!!!!

This was said by the Exalted 1,

8UdDh4

Abrahamic religion is beyond stupid. Its fundamental foundations have been destroyed by scientific rationality. The western world is going through a crisis of nihilism for a reason.

You. Yes YOU. You, reading this post.

Buddha is right about you. Yes, YOU. Read him, for your own sake.

>>7139878
>he hasn't realised that this is suffering

Buddhism. Where to start?

>kids discussing zizek
>memeing nietzsche
>they never talk about the greatest philopsopher of all the time

pic related

I'd kill Socrates and thereby smother the abomination of western philosophy in its cradle.

How old were you when you realized "you" didn't exist?

What do you think about this quote, /lit/?

>The only thing that can be loved is the female. A man, of course, has some female within him, and when he is loved, this female within him is the object of this love.

Also, post some quotes.

>>6413995
>he thinks he can escape the cycle by killing himself
Nah-uh.

>mfw someone mentions "the self" near me

Is Theravada Buddhism like Stoic philosophy?

>>6040530
All everything can pass in a moment.

I'm with OP.

"When you realize that all that appears and exists to be your mind, there is no path of enlightenment apart from that… When samsaric existence is freed in itself, there is no awakened state to accomplish apart form that. Once you realize this, samsara and nirvana are not two."

So nirvana is just samsara from another perspective?

Help me on my path to enlightenment /lit/. After months of delusion I've realized the path is not as clear as I assured myself it was.