/lit/ - Literature

>>17759245
>I will probably start reading about it regardless, but I'd like to get an idea on this.
A common position espoused in the writings of Traditionalists like Guenon, Coomaraswamy etc, is that the ultimate perennial truth is a truth that is contained in the esoteric teachings of multiple religions and that it differs according to various circumstances by that it is most accurately explained by the Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism, which says that underlying our normal experience of things is the infinite and undivided consciousness of Brahman, which is formless, undivided and without such distinctions as race, gender, thoughts, likes and dislikes etc, and that this consciousness of Brahman or God is actually the only thing that exists and that it just projects the illusion of individual beings. This doesn’t invalidate the distinctions of male and female, race, nation etc, they all have their own proper place in the grand scheme of things and are a part of the harmony of the universe woven by God’s power, but it means that the plenitude of God transcends them and that one should not take them for more than what they. This is probably one of the reasons there is no serious racial animosity found in the writings of Guenon or Coomaraswamy, although Evola is a bit different in his understanding of metaphysics and race, and some of his stuff is more explicitly racial, although I suppose if you had already read Guenon etc you could probably still read Evola and appreciate some of what he says about sundry topics without accepting all of it

>>17727131
>Are you implying that your consciousness isn't fallible?
Yes
>Emotions and feelings can be artificially induced
That says nothing about consciousness because those are things glimpsed within consciousness as opposed to being consciousness itself, so they don’t provide us of evidence of some change affecting consciousness itself, similar to how regardless of what we aim a telescope at the telescope itself doesn’t become changed by and actually take on the physical properties of whatever we see through the telescope.
>impressions can be manufactured, your nondual experience is exactly that.
Non-dual experience is unmanufactured for the reason that it’s always the nature of consciousness and you just have to distinguish it, in order to realize It you have to learn how to discern something which has been there your entire existence in front of your face without you realizing it. When someone distinguishes It for the first time, that is not a new experience being manufactured, it is instead the unveiling to Itself of the unproduced and constantly-present ground of experience.

>>17683260
its based

>>17326945
Based

>>15192528
Not him, but all of the people in his post still affirm that while transcendental, it still does 'exist' as a special transcendental type of existence which is beyond reason and which is not nothingness, and that there is continuance there of something which is intrinsic to the conscious being. Whereas Buddhists throughout history and on /lit/ will often try to argue against precisely that and will argue for something that is indistinguishable in practice from a dissolution into nothingness, and then when this is pointed out they will retreat into a "well it's beyond existence and non-existence" defense, but unlike the Hindus, Platonists, Taoists, Christian mystics etc the Buddhists are unable to give any reason why that is the case, because of their denial of any Supreme Self or Soul etc beyond the aggregates which continues in Parinirvana.

The only thing that saves the Buddhist theory from being an extinction into nothingness is exactly this Supreme Self/Soul, but if you are not willing to admit this and instead attribute consciousness/being to a transient bundle of aggregates as Buddhists do then there is no reason at all to accept that Buddha's denial of Parinirvana being an extinction is true, because in both cases (i.e. nothingness and a transient bundles of aggregates no longer producing the illusion of awareness/experience) there is no sensations, experiences or entity whatsoever. At this point you are simply accepting it on faith that Parinirvana is not nothingness but without any good reason for it. If the Buddhists are willing to join the club and admit that there is some transcendental Absolute/Reality beyond all mundane human conception and ideas of existence/non-existence then you guys should really stop arguing over it and making snide comments about it in so many threads like new atheists whenever it's a Hindu or Platonist or Christian talking about it.

>>14256033
both of them are real unironically

>>14237071
only his body died, the eternal Soul liveth one