/lit/ - Literature

Schopenhauer accepted the idea of reincarnation. If humans stop reproducing, then the unborn souls will just reincarnate somewhere else. You have to actually follow Hinduism/Buddhism as a monk to end the cycle. Also if you choose to have kids, you can take the opportunity to give them a better upbringing than if they had been reincarnated as some dirtbag's kids. Neither the Buddha nor any of the Hindu philosophers endorsed antinatalism.

The Pali Canon is the only authentic buddhist scripture
The Buddha was not an eastern messiah
Women will never become Buddhas

Books on buddhist history and theology?

Where do I start with Monistic philosophy? We are all one

>>21217395
>Jōshū took off his sandal, placed it on his head, and walked out.

There is no self, how can there be self-improvement.

>>20113173
Buddhism is the only religion with epistemology in house self aware instead of pathetically horrendous chapters of sovereigns punishing heresies and later retconning them with sanitized adoptions like Aquinas to Aristotle.

Angutara Nikaya 3.65
“There are, sir, some ascetics and brahmins who come to Kesamutta. They explain and promote only their own doctrine, while they attack, badmouth, disparage, and smear the doctrines of others. Then some other ascetics and brahmins come to Kesamutta. They too explain and promote only their own doctrine, while they attack, badmouth, disparage, and smear the doctrines of others. So, sir, we’re doubting and uncertain: ‘I wonder who of these respected ascetics and brahmins speaks the truth, and who speaks falsehood?’”

“It is enough, Kālāmas, for you to be doubting and uncertain. Doubt has come up in you about an uncertain matter.
Please, Kālāmas, don’t go by oral transmission, don’t go by lineage, don’t go by testament, don’t go by canonical authority, don’t rely on logic, don’t rely on inference, don’t go by reasoned contemplation, don’t go by the acceptance of a view after consideration, don’t go by the appearance of competence, and don’t think ‘The ascetic is our respected teacher.’ But when you know for yourselves: ‘These things are unskillful, blameworthy, criticized by sensible
people, and when you undertake them, they lead to harm and suffering’, then you should give
them up.

>>20051355

A while back in one of BAP’s podcasts he mentioned something about a nihilistic Buddhist empire with the symbol of a burning flower? I tried googling it but couldn’t find anything with the terms I was using. I’m not subbed to his gumroad does anyone remember what I’m talking about?

is Siddharta gautamas journey special

>>19108477
>Why, yes, I don't in fact know what desire for fleshly pleasure is. How did you know?

Read the Bhagavad Gita. Now

>Have you meditated on the permanence of death yet today anon?

>>18000000
El Buddho Basado

>>17853389
>>Nature as symbiosis instead of struggle
It’s a push and pull between harmony and struggle, and a nested hierarchy of wholes within the infinite body of God. This is the final redpill

Recommend me a good book for an introduction to buddhism and/or general spiritual philosophy

Is Dharmic literature just schizo-posting or are its doctrines only truely ‘confirmable’ upon directly experiencing them and through rigorous meditation? Reading the Bhagavad Gita again recently I started to feel this way.

Books for this feel?

>>17475307
Yes, through an apophatic approach. The Buddha’s disciples were so dumb that they took it literally too. Remember how devas literally had to beg the Buddha to teach the dharma and he initially refused because no one would understand it? Well it turns out that the Buddha was right and the devas were retarded

>implying giga-chad engages in degeneracy

>Thus I have heard. 6 million bodhisattvas sat on a mountain of smaragds and their eyes shines like a million suns and they chanted " Oh master buddha the truth you announce in this suttra is truely the truth that all your previous teachings and all 6 bajillion previous eternal buddhas aluded to and gazing upon this suttra will awaken the awakening in every paying follower