/lit/ - Literature

Harassment Architecture
Bronze Age Mindset
Economism
Brave New World
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Abolition of Man

going to finish The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea and Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by new year, only recently got back into reading so I hope next year's list is much longer :)

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Gaudapada is a pretty cool guy. Eh awakens from dreams and doesn't afraid of anything.

I don't think he was exposed to "Original Buddhism" which was only been tried while Ananda was alive and before the formation of the Abhidhamma while Buddha Dhamma was not in the Sarivastivadins though they did preserve the Pancanikayas in Pali script which is undeniably older than the other scripts used in Prakrit. Original Buddhism itself is a Neovedantic Neosramanic movement that had some obvious ties to the Sannyasins that sought nibbana and moksha and whatever one might call sammasamadhi. Gaudapada isn't original and neither is Gotama, yet they both have come to similar conclusions in original ways and the whole Buddhist notion of reincarnation was even at Gotama's time was a fringe theory which his own realization of is personal and not based on some maybe pre-Buddhist Upanishads(oral traditions are usually exaggerated, question everything, never take any swami or guru or bhikku at face value). No person owns the truth, they merely tap into the truth through neti-neti. It doesn't matter as to what kind of analogy is used to describe reality whether it be through an ancient vedic doctors' method of disease diagnosis or through dream metaphors based off of older dream metaphors from someone before you, both are the same with different nuanced elaborations in different ways.

Mahayanas are wrong to say that atman is sunyata when what is Anatta is know by what Atta is not. X is not Y, not Y isn't Y, Y as X is not Y but is Y in X, that Y in X perishes with X unless Y in X finds Y in Y in X as Y is Y despite Y in X is still in effect, Y cannot know Y without first being in the state of not Y which is the attribute or quality of Y as not Y yet Y is never directly participating in Y in X nor is Y as X by any means is Y. Gaudapada and all the other Advaitins never speak well of any form of Buddhism, valid or invalid and all invalid excuses are simply due to how Original Buddhism was taken over by soul denying Brahmin Jains LARPing as Buddhists that succeeded in murdering Gotama, namely Kashyapa/Kassapa and Cunda.

Buddhism had failed because of the lying scribes mistranslating various key words while some "Sola Scriptura" direct meaning for meaning translation and revival of Original Buddhism requires serious nonsectarian Buddhologists like Ken Wheeler, Caroline Rhys Davids, and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy who not only understands Pali but also ancient metaphysics in ancient Greek and a bit of Latin to translate certain abstruse terms into English by way of analogy of one idea with another in different cultures into the current English speaking world. A few Advaitins grasps the truths in the five nikayas but they're of course more invested in their own successful tradition, which is oddly why we will never see a non biased translation of the five nikayas any time soon in its full glory.

t. superior Ken Wheeler poster