/lit/ - Literature

>>13023274
he's a buddhist now

>>12552244

Are mantras /lit/? Does /lit/ have any mantras?
A few times a day I repeat: "I am a fucking idiot, I'm gunna put a fucking rope around my neck and kill myself"; I find it helps me cope

>>12149549
this is a 4channel board now sweaty, please go back to 4chan

>>11210773
If there is no free will your actions can be perfectly predicted as they are absolutely determined. If you were to receive a copy of this prediction, you would have no other choice but to follow the list exactly whether you want to or not. If it says you eat cheerios for breakfast, even knowing that, you would literally be unable to eat anything but cheerios. (don't get hung up on the "prediction would change after you read it" meme, because that is putting a non-determinate element of will in the system; in a determinist universe your reading of the prediction would necessarily be a part of the prediction)

>>10946197
Read the Heart Sutra. Buddhist texts are better reading than most religious works you should be happy there's so much out there.

>>10858855
He was writing about civil disobedience, not revolution. You can't even have civil disobediance without a certain level of justice inherent in society:
>Now in certain circumstances militant action and other kinds of resistance are surely justified. I shall not, however, consider these cases. As I have said, my aim here is the limited one of defining a concept of civil disobedience and understanding its role in a nearly just constitutional regime.
Kant was more along the lines of 'never overthrow no matter what', because he could never universalize revolution.

>>10777926
Fasting didn't work anon, he abandoned the ascetic tradition too.

>>10257508
this, only the bodhi pill satiates.

>>10188549
If you stop wanting something from them you will no longer suffer from it being withheld from you.

Uproot your desires.