/lit/ - Literature

>>19983639
Pretty much. Nobody genuinely has any idea what's going on and whoever says they do is trying to peddle his own brand of bullshit.

Which books will completely destroy my unfounded dogmas?
Right now I'm reading Sextus Empiricus but I'm finding it too academic and dry.

>>19150416
Face it every day and keep it in the back of your mind at all times. This is what the buddha called Maranasati, mindfulness of death, and he called it the best of all meditations. He recommended it to lay people as well as monks, that they do it every single day, in the form of the reflection :

All that is mine, which i find lovely and pleasing, will become otherwise. I will be separated from everything that is dear and appealing to me.

This will slowly undermine your sense of ownership with regard to these things which you cannot hold on to. And free you from suffering with regard to their loss. Because you will eventually see that holding on to impermanent things is a senseless thing.

If this contemplation gets very profound it can lead to full enlightenment, which is nothing more than fully seeing that your life and the phenomena in it are given beforehand and you appropriated it after the fact. And therefore you can disown it all. Not through a view but through clearly seeing

When I first started browsing /lit/, I held the exact same beliefs as pic related, and I still do now. Am I retarded or something? I just don't feel compelled to accept any of the ideologies I've read about as true.
Books about being an eternally indecisive fencesitter? I don't even feel bad about it, I don't feel like I need some kind of grand meaning or truth in my life. I guess I'm just an NPC, do any of you feel the same?

Any literature to come to terms with the fact that I will never know for sure what the truth of everything is?