/lit/ - Literature

>>6497908
your daily reminders sound desperate. let the buddha and descartes meet and let's see who is convinced of the other's superiority.

you are probably a theistic egotist who needs constant reassurance of your divinely created and life and purpose and eternal existence so buddhism terrifies you. like the sutta where the buddha says he is like the lion who comes out at night roaring making the other animals hide and run and shit themselves with fear. he teaches the impermanence of identity, the not-self nature of consciousness. ordinary beings attached to identity feel fear when confronted with the thought of their own impermanence, changing nature, eventual decay and death, rebirth...