/lit/ - Literature

>>12213206
>what tao, buddhist, and Hindu stuff have you bren reading?
let's see...i've been reading pic rel pretty much every day. red pine's book on bodhidharma has been good also. i have been talking a high holy shitload about the Journey to the West/Monkey King quite a lot also. Journey to the West really is a kind of alchemical novel, like The Conference of the Birds or The Lord of the Rings. and it makes me wonder also about parallels to the Oresteia, that is - what would have happened if instead of the furies being banished from the polis by Athena, if they had become enlightened instead?

more on that here:
http://www.innerjourneytothewest.com/english/en-resource.html

and also a book of collected essays by Liu Yiming (Thomas Cleary trans.) to confirm that indeed the Way is great and the Way is way cool.

what else...ah yes, a lot of stuff on Shiva. of that i can say this much: Shiva is a legit mindfuck. here's one interesting thing i learned: did you know that 'Dionysus' really just means 'God of Nysa?' pretty cool. there are a lot of parallels between Dionysus and Shiva, and this no doubt is part of what made poor Friedrich Nietzsche's head explode. for learning more about dem hindus i have found Alain Danielou to be completely awesome, so a bunch of stuff by him also, books on yoga, Shaivite religion, and other stuff. reading Aurobindo now again (he's cool) and Yogananda's ginormous book on the Gita (which is aight, but i prefer Danielou).

also some stuff by Chogyam Trungpa, 'Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism' and others. he's pretty fun. i'm definitely feeling the love for Tibetan Buddhism. re-reading Joseph Campbell as well to be reminded what a cozy old sage Uncle Joe was too. even mixed in some Evola too. and one really interesting book called 'The Hermetic Deleuze,' which is way good and you should definitely check out if you're into that stuff.

and the thing is, it's improved by checking in on Uncle Nick and not harmed by it. both of these things - Eastern mysticism, ultra-esoteric Landian Marxism - they kind of work together for me, in some way. i find i am actually more open to Uncle Nick's icy-cold Kantian Capital argument (really, he just wants to talk about Kant) kind of shows why mysticism is good for you, and also those aspects of capital that are simply never going to catch up with Shiva (or the Tao, or Zen, or the Buddha, or much else). we do live in a technical civilization in the West, for sure, but...well. long thoughts, those.

i will probably want to start a new Cosmotech thread again at some point, mainly just for schizo-rambling about all of this stuff, but for now i'm just enjoying soaking in a whole lot of Wisdom from the East and Cryptique (nice neologism, hey?) from our boy in Shanghai, for whom a Purple Sweater is being stitched daily.

>>12213207
http://www.ufblog.net/
most interesting philosopher alive bar none.