/lit/ - Literature

>>22897128
>Your thoughts, your emotions, they are the movie. But you're not the movie, you're the screen the movie is playing on.
Yeah as you say I would go farther and say that there is no screen, it's a "screenless and actorless play" so to speak, and this paradox is the essence of anatta

I see Buddhism characterized as nihilistic for its repudiation of desire, observation that suffering is a constant of reality, "goal" of the dissolution of the self, the emphasis on emptiness, etc. But I have a feeling this is only in comparison to what Abrahamized westerners expect out of religion: a promise of a heavenly afterlife and some kind of relationship with God.

Is the nihilism of Buddhism based in any truth? Is it just a western misunderstanding or projection?

>>20231667
see: Buddhism