/lit/ - Literature

>>4600329
more than you realize

The entire practice of early Buddhism and also Theravada is a project of destroying all healthy, powerful and virile energies in a man. Sexual energy, feelings of strength and pride, enjoyment of life itself through pleasurable experiences. All must be guarded against and destroyed in the mind.

One of the major rules for a monk is not to listen to music.

Buddhism is basically "I had fun once and it was awful" the religion.

Meditation is cool though. Plus Buddha was pretty much right in the whole no-self thing, his response to it was just pessimistic as fuck.

Oh well, at least there's always Ikkyu's red thread zen.

Is there anything like this?

- Fantasy or sci-fi
- Dark and serious atmosphere, no fun allowed
- Good characterization, long dialogue, intellectual themes
- No political intrigue

i don't like these threads
;_;

hey /lit/ im kind of an obsessive list maker and im making a to read
which of the "greatest novels" or "best novels" lists do you think is superior?

Modern library's 100 best novels? All TIME 100 novels?

>>2012449
Same here. I'm 22 though.
If it existed when I was 10 I would have probably been more interested in Harry Potter than the Goosebumps and Stephen King that I read. It would sound appealing for the sake of a cool wizard story. But now I don't read for fun anymore, time is too precious.

My August's Reading List (I don't expect to read all of them, but this month I have lots of free time):

·Thomas De Quincey - Of Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts.
·Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell.
·John Reed - Ten days that shook the world.
·Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos - Treatise on public education.
·Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species.
·Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene.
·Pio Baroja - The Tree of Knowledge.
·Roberto Bolaño - 2666.
·Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics.
·Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America.

What do you think, /lit/?