/lit/ - Literature

Are there any fantasy stories or authors who handle absurdly high power levels well? Like Xianxia endgames, or stories about Gods/cosmic entities as major characters who do widespread insane shit that's actually written about and explained or at least shown in the text?

I know about Chronicles of Amber but that's about it.

Anattā just means "not the soul". Your body is anattā, your face is anattā, your temperament is anattā, your friendships are anattā, your memory is anattā, etc. The deepening contemplations known as the jhāna go further: existence and nonexistence are anattā, consciousness and nonconsciousness are anattā, etc. If there were no attā at the end of the series, what indeed would be the point? Or, indeed, how could the series run in reverse as in dependent coarising--the first term is avijjā, ignorance ("blindness"), but how could the series begin without some *thing* to be ignorant, let alone something to be ignorant of? And indeed, if there really is nothing at all at the end of the series, from whence would the Buddha and other arahants derive their supernatural abilities? Do you think "nothing" enables the Buddha to levitate, teleport, planeswalk, telecommunicate, pass through objects, etc.?

>I don't even know if reincarnation is real
Think of it as an extension of the law of conservation of mass and energy. When you die, your body decomposes, but its material never disappears. Likewise for the components of your mind and personality, which dissolve and pass onto other corporeities, but do not disappear. So too for your soul, though it does not dissolve since it is singular (not a complex like the body and mind), but nonetheless appears incorporated in other bodies unless, of course, it has been liberated as done by the Buddha.

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A reality where you are free. As an analogy, most people feel more in control in the waking world than in their dreams. An arahant is to this world as a lucid dreamer is to a dream, one who gets and remains awake among the illusions of slumber.

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based nikaya poster

Is buddhism naive when it comes to the prince of darkness? I know they have Mara but he seems more like a Poltergeist than a sheming ruler of the material world.
Also what powers do buddhas have to counter him?
Any books on buddhist eschatology?

How can I realize the concept of no self on an instinctual level?