/lit/ - Literature

>>11722847
We all are. This is nothing new.

You gotta be somebody, Anon.

Because if you're not somebody, you're gonna be somebody's fool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0m1YzRu4M

I suggest you study the works of T.

>>11722847
i bet i'm even less than you OP, get on my level

Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning flashed, I saw that what I had thought to be a city was in fact a deserted plain and, in the same sinister light that revealed me to myself, there seemed to be no sky above it. I was robbed of any possibility of having existed before the world. If I was ever reincarnated, I must have done so without myself, without a self to reincarnate.
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me.
I'm always thinking, always feeling, but my thoughts lack all reason, my emotions all feeling. I'm falling through a trapdoor, through infinite, infinitous space, in a directionless, empty fall. My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, books, boxes, snatches of music and fragments of voices, all caught up in a sinister, bottomless whirlpool.
And I, I myself, am the centre that exists only because the geometry of the abyss demands it; I am the nothing around which all this spins, I exist so that it can spin, I am a centre that exists only because every circle has one. I, I myself, am the well in which the walls have fallen away to leave only viscous slime. I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing.
And it is as if hell itself were laughing within me but, instead of the human touch of diabolical laughter, there's the mad croak of the dead universe, the circling cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds drifting blackly in the wind, misshapen, anachronistic, without the God who created it, without God himself who spins in the dark of darks, impossible, unique, everything.
If only I could think! If only I could feel!

>>11722909
All our lives we try to become God. Then we die.

Why isn’t Green Man wearing any pants?

You're not just nobody. There IS no YOU.

>>>/r9k/

The joke is, no one can get enlightened. This fact though, is disheartening only from the surface.

>>11722847
>I reached
>I realized
>I'm nobody
kek

>>11722847


>>11722859
kek

>>11723440
Buddha did

>>11725502
Kek

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

to bend the spoon, you have to realize that there is no spoon

>>11722909
where's this from?

>>11725750

>>11722847
I could have told you that..

>>11722847
>Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

>>11725510
Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness.
In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed.
Spring flowers, winter snows.
There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself.

t. some chink

>>11725502
If you meet him, kill him.

Another Zen koan:
The Emperor asked of Bodhidharma,
“What is the ultimate meaning of the holy truth of Buddhism?”
Bodhidharma replied, “Vast emptiness. No holiness.”
The Emperor asked, “Who stands here before me?”
Bodhidharma replied, “I don’t know.”

>>11726935
yes asians are so smart and spiritual. just look at this. truly a beautiful culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-JqUpfFx-E

>>11722855
based Mr.T poser

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>>11728516
there's literally nothing wrong with having balls of steel

>>11722855
I wish I watched this as a kid, blacks truly are to common wisdom what whites are to philosophy