/lit/ - Literature

>>22520016
>our imprisonment, jailer(s), the nature of the prison and how we ended up in this state to begin with.
none of that is real, you are a nihilist for denying the world in favor of nothing

>>22196361
I prefer "Dragonborn" or "Conqueror of the Serpent"

>>22022956
>That doesn't prove anything about what the correct definition of existence is.
Right that's the point. Pick your favorite explanation... and it's bullshit. That's the analysis of every chapter of MMK. So we agree—existence doesn't depend on subjects acting or objects acted upon. But do you have some other set of rules to attempt describing it or are we done here?

>>21876926
Retroactively refuted.
>>21876973
It's not—any Buddhist literature thread will be infested with seething christlarpers crying about demons and also trans-hindus who read English translations of New Age French commentaries on medieval Indian commentaries on the Upanishads and think that means they are indologists.

>>21449414
>Misunderstanding Nietzsche is poison
Based and mahayana-pilled. That's basically what it comes down to. Someone who does not understand he himself is sickly cannot appreciate a regimen for vitality. Just so, someone brimming with vitality who misinterprets a prescription for the sick will harm himself.

>>21404275
Yeah I get all my doctrines from the Lord of Dragons he's pretty based

>>21254398
>"Emptiness" in Buddhism [...] is more like Nirvana in opposition to samsara
totally wrong, typical /lit/

>>21242690
retroactively refuted

>>21226037
Dangerously based

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ultimately >>20788851
is right. he's just being mean about it. Language, intellectual thought, and philosophy is only useful, holy and truthful if it is employed as a skillful mean for a higher purpose, capable of reflecting on its own imperfections and limitations. absolut monists, and pantheists will seethe that their intellectualism is not an end in itself because they lacking in something else.

>>20663962
Retroactively refuted by Nagarjuna. We don't come from nothingness. There is no coming or going. Emptiness IS form.

>>20520189
Couldn't agree more—fuck atoms. t. pajeet dragonborn

>>20365130
>his name means something like "Snake-fucker" as he taught the Dharma to snake people inside the center of the hollow Earth
I prefer "dragonborn" as the anglicized version

Whatever his thoughts were, he was retroactively refuted by Nagarjuna

Retroactively refuted

>>20004974
Well now you are switching from caring about a historical Buddha to a cosmic Buddha. That I don't personally disparage but weird to claim Nagarjuna didn't teach dharma or something because it isn't the words of Gautama and then switch to Mahayana sutras as being canon.
>emptiness is anything
Agree, emptiness is form/ form is emptiness

>>19940411
Based Roerich poster

>>19929382
>Reality still exists at the conventional level.
Right, a reality which is dependently originated, in which all things are conditioned upon other things, things only possible because they lack any inherent own self-nature which would preclude them from such appearances. Did (You) do the reading?

-1: astral dragons from inside the earth

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>>19767645
Arahant > All

>>19702486
You know what you must do. Conquer the serpent, destroy all views, and transcend discursive thought

>>19693335
If you can track down any of Stcherbatsky's books, he is probably the best European or American scholar of Buddhism prior to the last few decades of people actually being ordained before doing translations/writing about the philosophy. Though I do believe he had access to some actual Mongolian Buddhists in Russia, so that helped. Another older writer who is generally good is DT Suzuki, more popular but influenced by theosophy in his presentation. I would still largely recommend primary texts over surveys since those in translation generally have comprehensive introductions and endnotes

>>19677654
There used to be a few unfathomably based roerich posters in the philosophy threads. The jannies banned them.

>>19643387
>stop jumping from thing to thing every month or so
Nagarjuna