/lit/ - Literature

"Immoral people are retarded" - Buddha

>have only read buddhist books this year
>have read 5 books on meditation
>still never actually meditate

how do i remedy this

>tfw no gf

>can read and expound buddhist sutras and philosophical works like a champ
>can't sit in meditation for more than 30 minutes without overwhelming mental distraction from physical pain/discomfort forcing me out.

any other buddhistbros have this discrepancy?

i suppose i'll have to escape suffering next life huh?

>zen thread
self defeating, zen is not about words

>match a girl on tinder who has spirituality in her interests
>get talking
>i say so i see you're into buddhism, i've just finsihed Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (Mabja's commentary)
>she responds 'whats that'
>I respond 'oh well its an exposition on the emptiness that underlies all phenomena and entities and essentially demonstrates how their self-establishment is not tenable and believing it as will lead to suffering and delusion which is of course bad for spiritual insight - in short its sort of an explication o the brief ideas summarised in the Heart Sutra, which i'm sure you're familiar with'
>she unmatches

where did i go wrong? do yuo think she was a hinayanist?

>christo-vedic synergism

>>17866108
Why would you want to strengthen that feeling? Being angry 24/7 isn't precisely healthy no matter what your based friends told you but I get why you would want to feel that way. Anger is at least a proactive sentiment while the fear and hopelessness that come from accepting the worse part of human society can be paralyzing however there's no real way to avoid them for long you will need to become more and more detached from reality to keep this mindset. Coming to terns with the worse parts of ourself can be a terrifying and titanic task but you will become a stronger and wiser individual once you do it believe me.

I agree with everything that Nagarjuna says.
In fact he makes more sense than the actual original words of the Buddha because he doesn't allow for the same ambiguity and shifting of contextual meaning

Should I try to refute him through further meaning or shouldI try to dedicate my life to the reestablishment of the pure Madhyamaka school?

Continuation of >>17562990

>>17564347
respondent: Surely you are not so foolish so as to equate apparent existence with actual or real existence? The time at which something is being considered having a determining affect upon the appearance of that thing in one’s mind only pertains to our subjective experience of things, it does not provide us with foolproof knowledge of the ontological status of the thing being considered.

NΛGΛRJVNΛ: In all ways that a thing can be known, perceived or imagined, it is conditionally dependent. To be unconditioned means that things that are clearly conditioned such as objects of knowledge, perception and imagination can clearly not interact with the unconditioned. In a reality of conditional dependence, an uncnditnoed thing is simply absurd like a donkey's horn.
Time is an example of this - when can I know/see/describe something that exists beynd time?
If Motion is an essence inherent in all movers:
Then movers could never come to rest lest movement come to rest
If motion is a real thing that movers partake in:
Then when the mover moves motion also moves and then motion needs to partake of another motion (the motion of motion) which in turn will need take part of its own motion
The same applies to all fabrications. To see anything as inherently existent is clearly false upon even basic analysis.

respondent: Yes, such as God, Allah, Brahman, the Tao. Buddhists also hold Nirvana to be uncaused but for some reason their imagination fails them when directed elsewhere.
NΛGΛRJVNΛ: Nirvana is conditionally dependent too.

respondent: That may be so but it doesn't refute the truth here to be recognized which is that certain Buddhists contradict themselves and become hypocrites by posting reaction images implying that uncaused things don't exist (advancing an argument would be too much for them), while also maintaining that Nirvana or the Unconditioned is uncaused.
NΛGΛRJVNΛ: Nirvana is conditioned.

>>17451427
>suffering bad

>>17338524
Based and Godhead-pilled

>>17042082
Not OP but here you go

>>16925977
I went back and time and took a pic of him

>>16821248
follow the 8 fold path bro

>>16182210
>12
anon....