/lit/ - Literature

Zero. Books are terrible at this.

>>11542920
What about Shankara and Nagarjuna?

>>11542932
I've never heard of them.

Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
Attar’s The Conference of the Birds
Rumi’s Masnavi and Fihi Ma Fihi
The Tao Te Ching
Zhuangzhi
Plato’s Phaedo, Republic
The Gospels
Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
Various ancient Zen sermons, sayings, stories, essays and poems (writings of Hakuin Ekaku, Dogen, Ikkyu, Bankei, etc)
The Bhagavad Gita

>>11542914
Tao Te Ching but I was also smoking a lot of weed and cold turkeying antidepressants so I don't know if it was really the book.

The copy of Catch 22 I was stashing my acid in

Proclus’ Elements of Theology is basically the ‘Euclids Elements’ of theology. It’s actually helping me understand Aristotleian Metaphysics better, and basically the first mover argument is essentially proposition 4 I believe. Beautiful work.

To think I almost passed it over

On Beauty - Plotinus

>>11542932
Seconding this, Shankara's works are very moving if you understand all the terminology. I haven't read Nagarjuna but have only heard good things.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
anything by Osho
anything by Silvano Agosti

>>11543360

>Osho

>>11543360
>1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
explain

And he attested that Joan, "being already surrounded by the flame, never ceased up to the end to proclaim and to profess in a high voice the holy name of Jesus, imploring and invoking without cease the aid of the saints of paradise, and again, which is more, while surrendering her spirit and letting her head fall, she uttered the name of Jesus as a sign that she was fervent in the faith of God."
...
One of the Englishmen, a soldier,who detested her exceptionally and had sworn that with his own hand he would bring a bundle of sticks to Joan's stake, at the moment he did it and heard Joan crying the name of Jesus in her last moment, stood struck with stupor as though in an ecstasy and had to be led to a tavern near the Old Marketplace, so that with the help of some drink he could regain his strength. ...this Englishmen confessed through the mouth of a friar who was also English that he had sinned gravely and that he repented what he had done against Joan, whom he know took to be a holy woman; for as it seemed to him, this Englishman had seen himself, at the moment that Joan gave up her spirit, a white dove emerge from her and take flight toward France.
...
Pierre Cusquel... had not been present "because my heart could not have stood it and would have suffered from pity for Joan," but he recounted: "I have heard it said that Master Jean Tressart, secretary to the King of England, coming back from Joan's execution, lamentably afflicted and moaning over what he had seen in that place, said: "We are all lost, for it is a good and holy person that was burned.' and that he thought 'that her soul was in the hands of God, and that, when she was in the midst of the flames, she had continuously called upon the name of the Lord Jesus."

One of the assessors, Jean Alespée... wept abundantly, according to the witnesses, and said: "I wish that my soul were where I believe this woman's soul is."

symposium i guess, i had an audiobook with some great voice acting

>>11542914
If there was a book, then hasn't met the substantial epiphanies that I experienced.

>>11543026
Excellent list. Gospel of Thomas is what did it for me. Crazy stuff.

>>11542914

>>11542914
The Book Of Flesh

>>11543026
Is 'Beelzebub's Tales' good to read if your not really into the occult?

>>11542914

>>11542914
This book changed me somehow. Made me more of an adult, but not quite there yet. That was over 10 years ago when I was still an edgy school kid.

>>11542914
les miserables

>>11544966
dat ghost dog

>>11544966
Same here brother

>>11542914
What's that painting?

>>11542914
Mishimishi's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, kinda. Not in the nationalistic sense, though.

>>11543416
The dynamics leading to Joan's execution are nothing short of horrific desu

Les Miserables

>>11543985
Possibly. It’s a book which includes psychological and philosophical ideas which can be appreciated and understood apart from any interest in the occult. In fact, the book is anti-occult in the sense in which most people use “occult”.

>>11542932
Nagarjuna is SHIT. Totally incoherent and contradictory by page one if the reader is paying attention.

>>11543026
>Gurdjieff
No. Say Evola or Blavatsky next time, it's less pathetic.

The Conference of the Birds was absolutely beautiful. I would definitely recommend it, especially if you are Muslim or have an interest in Islam.

>>11547998
>Blavatsky
>less pathetic.