/lit/ - Literature

>>14472613
Thoughts on having being retroactively refuted before even beginning your existence?

Does Buddha deny the existence of gods? Or does he simply believe they are irrelevant to the path of enlightenment?

>>14472613
have you read ALL THREE CRITIQUES?

>>14472622
by kant, based

>>14472624
he believes he is a god and that you are god actually

>>14472613

>"From whatever new points of view the Buddha's system is tested with reference to its probability, it gives way on all sides, like the walls of a well, dug in sandy soil. It has, in fact, no foundation whatever to rest upon and hence the attempts to use it as a guide in the practical concerns of life are mere folly. Moreover Buddha, by propounding the three mutually contradicting systems, teaching respectively the reality of the external world, the reality of ideas only and general nothingness, has himself made it clear that he was a man given to make incoherent assertions or else that hatred of all beings induced him to propound absurd doctrines by accepting which they would become thoroughly confused…Buddha’s doctrine has to be entirely disregarded by all those who have a regard for their own happiness."

Adi Shankara - Brahma Sutra Bhasya 2.2.32.

>>14472624
>>14472624
He neither confirmed nor denied their existence, the language of gods and spirits was commonplace, and so he often used the terms that the interlocutor used, but his view can be said to be 'they may exist, and if they do: they too are subject to impermanence and insubstantiality'

>>14472645
This is from the perspective of a more worldy and metaphysically concerned view, if you're more interested in 'what is real' and 'how to live well' then the Buddha's message is not of interest.

Brahmins gonna hate.

>>14472628
that sounds cool. I think I'm in.

>>14472624
Tibetan texts specifically mention Gods though they don't hold the same place as the Christian God.

Why is it so cucked compared to Western philosophies like existentialism?

>>14472794
Because it requires intellectual surrender to the fact that you are already cucked by death

Reminder that Shankara has been called a crypto-Buddhist by other Hindus for over a thousand years, and most mainstream scholars agree with this assessment.

Reminder that "but muh Upanishads mention monism!" is not a response to this. Shankara not only appropriated the whole framework of Nagarjuna's Buddhism, his "teacher's teacher," the earliest recorded Advaitin, Gaudapada, is widely considered to have outright PLAGIARIZED Nagarjuna.

Nihilism with beads.

>>14472878
Genuinely interesting.

>>14472885
Embarrassing.

Why does my father not love me

>>14472794
doubt there is anything out there that is cucked compared to western 'philosphy' let alone buddhism

>>14473076
How have you disappointed him?

what are some good books on buddhist history

did buddhists sects fight in tibet? what does it mean when they say shit like the kagyu sect was cast out of tibet by gelugs?
did they fight in india?

>>14472645
is there a daoist version of this image

>>14472807
>you are already cucked by death
not me

>>14473157
if so I hope it's not so horribly done

>>14473138
Gelug and Kagyu are both Tibetan schools, developed in Tibet, after the trasmission of Buddhism from India. Therefore they could not have fought in India. In Tibet, the Gelug school was backed by military force and thus displaced and suppressed the other schools, such as Kagyu and Nyingma. They still exist today largely due to the efforts of the 19th century Rime, or non-sectarian, movement, which sought to organize and reintroduce many non-Gelug perspectives.

>>14473198
i know they're tibetan budhist schools fag. I'm asking did buddhist (or hindu) schools fight in india before tibet transmission or is it a trend that only become apparent in tibet cause of their Mongolian blood.

>>14473192
don't worry chinks know their aesthetics

is there a sudden surge in eastern philosophy on lit because of guenon? or am i just getting baader meinhof because i have finally cracked into this stuff where i scrolled past it before?

>>14473361
a lot of it is the guenonspammers astroturfing