/lit/ - Literature

>>17093845
This gets brought up a lot on /lit/, how nirvana is ultimately ineffable, because it's beyond conceptuality. This is particularly a problem with, ironically, Hindus and Westerners, both of whom traditionally adhere to religious doctrines that have as a core doctrine the idea that the world literally works according to the principles of Sanskrit and Hebrew (respectively) grammar. The idea that a word is just a tool is something that is completely alien. I've argued with people on this board before who throw a fit when you imply that a chariot is just an assembly of parts because, although they do not know Sanskrit or Hebrew, there is a word for "chariot" in Sanskrit or Hebrew ergo it must have some ontological reality outside of just the assemblage of parts.

Westerners sort of just don't get how to handle this idea. It's one that has been stifled ever since Plato. It's very telling that Post-Modernism (yes faglord, I get that this is a loose term, I know what I mean, you know what I mean, go pop your zits somewhere else), and independent touching on what much of Eastern thought gets at, almost always results in the Post-Modernist having a mental breakdown, offering "?...?uh?...?communism?...?uh?...?" as a solution to the fundamental problems of language and knowledge, and then killing themselves.