/lit/ - Literature

>>21542699
Are you the notorious schizo Hindu poster?

>>21515543
Incredibly based and upayapilled

>>20327208
>the whole pali cannon?
The canon is tripartite, hence "tripitaka" in the Pali language. The discourses are from the "sutta pitaka" which is the "basket" of Buddhist teachings. The other two baskets are the Vinaya, which is monastic regulations (i.e. to promote a strenuous and exacting lifestyle among monks/recluses so that monasteries do not become NEET dens), and the Abhidharma, which is a kind of philosophical analysis and commentary and the most chiefly sectarian component (Mahayana has a completely different way of doing this, and even among the non-Mahayanists it is debated). AD is also viciously tedious and you can see germs of it in the suttas when you get long numerical lists, but this is almost a kind of early mantrayana in a sense, in that you are really really really concentrating on some element of reality or experience as a means of wisdom. Which may not be a good method for you personally
>it's ten more books like those?
No, only three more nikayas as part of the sutta pitaka. I would consider the Long and Middle to be the most accessible. I would not recommend you buy all five and burn yourself out. I would recommend starting with one of them and reading perhaps 2-10 suttas per week depending on how much time you have. The suttas in each collection are "episodic" if you are just going cover to cover, and they don't build up to some conclusion you can arrive at sooner if you speed read them. Each is focused on a particular audience or question or idea, or several

Mahayana Buddhism rejects the authority of the vedas and assigns gods an inferior position to Buddhas in its cosmology. While both are nominally expressions of non-dualism, it is Buddhism which actually does away with a transcendent creator to be worshiped.

>>18859916
Preaching the truth is nothing without also uprooting falsehood.

>>18768631
>It's very illogical to posit any spiritual Absolute or liberation from samsara while also not admitting the existence of anything that is different from the universe/samsara.
I mean what you're basically saying is that noumenon is untouched and transcendent to phenomena, and iirc the indo-thomists think they can patch back into noumena by saying they were noumena all along but were under the illusion of phenomena which is a power of noumenon. And this is close to a number of Buddhist schools which effectively teach that phenomena ARE noumenon, but the Vedantist obviously has to comply with the Vedas. So for one it's realizing phenomena were just illusions and you are noumenon, and for the other it's that phenomena are noumenon and any other view was due to delusional mentation. Thus I conclude Buddhism to have to more consistent nondualism.

Mahayanasamgraha