[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 127 KB, 1642x2048, 7C1B7D7C-2F65-4986-8C09-C396B2EF4C37.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
13783309 No.13783309 [Reply] [Original]

What books discuss the issue of anxiety stemming from the hyperawareness of the futile march against time and the consequent aging of the mortal body? I’m so fucked up from this.

>> No.13783310

We've been shilling Buddhism for a reason

>> No.13783311
File: 70 KB, 600x523, FE2ADD1A-4BA8-419A-B452-4FA503413203.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
13783311

And most importantly, the solution to this problem.

>> No.13783320

>>13783309
The Bible. Concept of anxiety. Any suttras

>> No.13783331

An eternity doesn't make the next hour more meaningful.
If we had an eternity to do it would take an eternity to.

>> No.13783357
File: 79 KB, 762x458, 23423234.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
13783357

>>13783309

>> No.13783582

>>13783309
Literally the main character in The Possibility of an Island

>> No.13784011

>>13783309
Are you trying to march against it? That's fucking dumb, lmao
Read literally any philisophy: buddhism, taoism, stoicism, all refer to this.

>> No.13784023

So I’m not the only one who gets extreme existential angst?

>> No.13784039

>>13784023
You are. OP is a troll

>> No.13784323

The epic of Gilgamesh - literally the first story ever recorded

>> No.13784452

>>13783310
this
“No matter if we are delighted or upset, happy or suffering, shedding tears or singing songs, never mind - living in this world we are in a cage. We don't get beyond this condition of being in a cage. Even if you are rich, you are living in a cage. If you are poor, you are living in a cage. If you sing and dance, you're singing and dancing in a cage. If you watch a movie, you're watching it in a cage.
What is this cage? It is the cage of birth, the cage of aging, the cage of illness, the cage of death.”

>> No.13784487

>>13783309
Book of Disquiet

>> No.13784532

>>13783309
WTF how did you get a picture of me LOOOOOOL

>> No.13784571

>>13783310
>>13783309
>>13783357
>>13784452
the only answer is to realize the Deathless, OP

>> No.13784625

>>13784323
Imagine being this much of a brainlet.

It's the earliest written work that we have found a surviving, readable part of. It's obviously not the first story ever recorded.

>> No.13784672

>>13783309
heidegger and other existentialists
but also theoretical physics re: the nature of spacetime to help you think objectively

>> No.13784885

>>13783357
blackpilled af

>> No.13785618

>>13783309

Plato's Parmenides.

>> No.13786639
File: 23 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
13786639

>>13783309
Ecclesiastes.

Seriously though, no one else is going to get you over the fact that your gonna die but you. Maybe check the denial of death by Becker. Its solutions are pretty shit though imo and he misses the fact that children are the main transference object in human affairs.

>> No.13786813

I will never die

>> No.13787902

>>13783309
Read the bible on acid or read up on Buddhism (sober or on acid).

>> No.13788098
File: 3.83 MB, 700x488, 6645187331523.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
13788098

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts helped me over that hump.

>> No.13788150

>>13788098
this is pretty good