/lit/ - Literature

>>23178492
>You think Buddhism is anti-intellectual?
You are doing it again. Grasping some intellectual framework, being able to refute heterodoxy, is not the same "thing" as spiritual practice, growth, attainment, accomplishment, etc. It is merely useful, not the actual purpose. Finger, moon, etc.

>>22126797
>Nothing exists to you except impressions and associations?
The ones you give off are certainly delusional

>>22112704
>no scriptures, no oral tradition, no dogmas, no theology, no beautiful architecture, nothing
sounds kino

>>22046125
>you're asking whether I have a view?
>sorry I'm not retarded

>>21898895
>still maintain the same boundless compassion and love for humanity
It's called Buddhism and was historically at one point the religion of half the planet

>>21880416
>>21880435
a nice wall > goodscreen > badscreen
simple as

>>21778964
>there's no consensus
yes, because prajñaparamita is non-discursive wisdom simple as

>>21712532
>skims wikipedia
>projects notions
>asks loaded question
you're ngmi, simple as. better luck next cycle

>>21674240
Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door, the bhakti club is two blocks down

>>21536732
>legitimately good fantasy

>>21257954
>religious larper hates being alive
every time

>>20885588
finally—some recognition of the me that is not-me

>>20821218
>all phenomena within your experience have arisen by themselves
your expertise in Buddhist thought is vastly overstated

>>20637849
Knowledge? You don't have to know anything. Just be rid of ignorance.

>>20609722
ngmi

>>20591808
Well... (You) don't.

>>20484924
>he thinks someone external is running the simulation
ngmi

>>20418172
>nooo don't destroy my illusions I wanted them to be real
I'll just be chilling while you seethe... gate gate paragate

>>20407897
>how Madhyamaka isn't nihilistic
Depends what you mean by nihilism. Theists associate all atheism with nihilism, which is why Shankara for instance will refer to "the nihilist" when he is trying to differentiate his position from the Buddhism he criticizes and to impress upon his fellow Hindus that he is not a crypto-Buddhist. But if nihilism is understood as a transitional period from theistic world denial (god is good and real and the lived world is evil and fake) to post-theistic world affirmation (just B.E. yourself), as in Nietzsche, then nihilism (nothing matters because there is no divine real) had already happened in India, and Mahayana was a response to it. The formulation that nirvana is not different from samsara, or that emptiness is form (i.e. that the absolute is immanent), is a rejection of nihilism. It negates what had negated. Nietzsche does not have this reading of Buddhism but it is compatible with his view of nihilism.

>>20322642
>Pure hedonist. Will die in his forties during an attempted bankrobbery. Will leave a legacy of four DUIs and having never paid child support.
God I hope so.

>>20087055
>Buddhism and Eastern philosophy is incompatible with modern western society.
And that's a good thing.

>>20065612
I think it will all be solved when White people fix it. Ah where have you been all these years? Did I leave you in the dust with all those nonwhites? Then everyone else will see the OG standard generator pick up old glory and BOOM American Industrial Revolution tier global leap times 10 but this time with some Indiana Jones Great Prophet.
'ate ignorance
Luv knowledge
Simple as
Om bruv
Om

>>20048295
>refusing to reify delusions is nihilism
filtered

>>20005256
>i strongly DISAGREE with sloppy western readings of Buddhism
me too buddy