/lit/ - Literature

>>18590082
Zen at War. Go from there.

>>18590082
>canonical Indian Buddhist tantric scriptural traditions
What a mouthful. Of what we perhaps would rather not know!

any history of Buddhist kingdoms.

>>18590082
My great uncle inherited a very large sum and decided to go travel the world, back in the 1920s. He attended one of Hitler's rallies, travelled across Asia, even got gifted a Mongolian slave girl who he had to ditch because she was planning on slitting his throat at the first occasion.
The only people he had anything really bad to say about were Tibetans. He hated them. He wrote in one of his letter that a guide told him it wasn't an unusual reaction, as Tibetans do everything to make themselves as repulsive and pathetic as possible. He said it was a survival tactic. A large part of what motivates raiders is simply stealing and raping the women. By beating your wife, your daughters, knocking their teeth out, dirtying them up, you reduce the chances of getting targeted by some bunch of raiders.

>>18590237
>The only people he had anything really bad to say about were Tibetans. He hated them. He wrote in one of his letter that a guide told him it wasn't an unusual reaction, as Tibetans do everything to make themselves as repulsive and pathetic as possible. He said it was a survival tactic. A large part of what motivates raiders is simply stealing and raping the women. By beating your wife, your daughters, knocking their teeth out, dirtying them up, you reduce the chances of getting targeted by some bunch of raiders.
Can you tell us more about this?

>>18590082
I have heard that Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lama was a horrific place for the poor, as no effort as made to help them (as part of karma). Dunno if it's true or CCP propaganda though

>>18590237
> even got gifted a Mongolian slave girl who he had to ditch because she was planning on slitting his throat at the first occasion.

Slave girls? In the 1920s?

>>18590292
You can still legally buy slaves in Mauritania.

>>18590237
post more

>>18590237
>>18590292
>your new slave girl that you had to accept for diplomatic reasons wants to kill you, a western traveler through central asia, at the first opportunity
>you are forced to entertain her each night with fantastical stories about the occident so she falls asleep before you do
Could be really kino

>>18590333
Or you could just tame her with the power of Cock, like one tames a mustang by riding it until it's too tired to continue resisting.

Nothing can beat the cock.

Not the cock.

Can't beat it, man.

>>18590292
Yes.

>>18590333
Trips confirm the appeal of this story

The Guardian
>Is mindfulness making us ill?

>Claire, a 37-year-old in a highly competitive industry, was sent on a three-day mindfulness course with colleagues as part of a training programme. “Initially, I found it relaxing,” she says, “but then I found I felt completely zoned out while doing it. Within two or three hours of later sessions, I was starting to really, really panic.” The sessions resurfaced memories of her traumatic childhood, and she experienced a series of panic attacks. “Somehow, the course triggered things I had previously got over,” Claire says. “I had a breakdown and spent three months in a psychiatric unit. It was a depressive breakdown with psychotic elements related to the trauma, and several dissociative episodes.”

>Four and a half years later, Claire is still working part-time and is in and out of hospital. She became addicted to alcohol, when previously she was driven and high-performing, and believes mindfulness was the catalyst for her breakdown. Her doctors have advised her to avoid relaxation methods, and she spent months in one-to-one therapy.

>Louise, a woman in her 50s who had been practising yoga for 20 years, went away to a meditation retreat. While meditating, she felt dissociated from herself and became worried. Dismissing it as a routine side-effect of meditation, Louise continued with the exercises. The following day, after returning home, her body felt completely numb and she didn’t want to get out of bed. Her husband took her to the doctor, who referred her to a psychiatrist. For the next 15 years she was treated for psychotic depression.

>Rachel, a 34-year-old film-maker from London, experimented with mindfulness several years ago. An old school friend who had tried it attempted to warn her off. “He said, ‘It’s hardcore – you’ll go through things you don’t want to go through and it might not always be positive.’ I suppose sitting with yourself is hard, especially when you’re in a place where you don’t really like yourself. Meditation can’t ‘fix’ anyone. That’s not what it’s for.”

>After a few months of following guided meditations, and feeling increasingly anxious, Rachel had what she describes as a “meltdown” immediately after practising some of the techniques she’d learned; the relationship she was in broke down. “That’s the horrible hangover I have from this: instead of having a sense of calm, I overanalyse and scrutinise everything. Things would run round in my mind, and suddenly I’d be doing things that were totally out of character, acting very, very erratically. Having panic attacks that would restrict my breathing and, once, sent me into a blackout seizure on the studio floor that involved an ambulance trip to accident and emergency.”

>>18590394
>buddhism is making wagies trying to appropriate meditation in the name of worldly glory insane
Doing what's intended to do

>>18590394
Jon Kabat-Zinn begs to differ

>>18590333
>>18590324
>>18590251
Don't know what else I can say, really. He was a huge orientalist, a writer who became fairly renowned (the national author's award is named after him here), he got into Tibet really early when it opened up. Even the mongolians, who he was scared shitless of, he had only praise for. I think he said Tibet was the only place on Earth he had visited where he had not come across one pretty woman. He also hated the way they all fought between themselves to offer him the slightest service that they would inevitably haggle over, even when he was clearly being very generous. At some point he became furious because some folks wanted to have their kids sleep out in the cold so they could rent him their shack.

>>18590388
It's a great prompt but I have no talent for fiction. My speciality is schizo ramblings.
>>18590394
>mentally ill westoids totally incapable of unfucking themselves, more at 11
>>18590488
Wasn't interwar Tibet basically on the verge of being eaten by either the British or the Chinese? It's an interesting snapshot for sure but I doubt things were that bad for all its history, was certainly much more prosperous in the middle ages, when for instance Mongolia adopted Tibet's Vajrayana Buddhism. Other nations don't adopt parts of your culture if you are a shithole country.

>>18590292
Tibet was in middle-age tier theocratic feudalism before the CCP liberated them.
>>18590082
I remember reading there's some buddhist school that basically did drugs to accelerate the samsara or something like. This was years ago and I've been unable to find it since

>>18590394
Yeah this doesn't come as a surprise at all, lol. Meditation is meant to hone your powers of observation. Imagine being some soulless wagie and suddenly awakening to the reality of how grotesque and meaningless your life truly is. If you can going, you will eventually get past the zero point and become enlightened, but if you just stop there you are fucked. You can't forget your insight. But you won't get more.

There is literally nothing wrong with cannibalism. If you accept that the phenomenal world is an illusion it doesn't really matter whether you eat human flesh or not. The same goes for modern materialist conceptions, if everything is just matter, what does it matter whether one piece of living matter ingests another? No one has any problem with eating chicken but they freak out at the idea of eating human even though it's supposed to be made of the same constituent parts as the chicken. Really superstitious.

>>18591202
Diseases seems like a good reason not to eat people, so does the psychological state of dehumanization, which will make it more difficult to interact with people

>>18591426
>Diseases
lmao just cook it
>dehumanization
shut the fuck up libtard

>>18591202
How's high school?

>>18592522
>no arguments

>>18590488
Please please please tell me that he has writings of his travels published

>>18590292
More people live in slavery now than any point in time, naive anon. There are open slave markets in Libya now after Western (((intervention)))

Just read the nikayas, you don't need sensationalist headlines to realize how fucked up buddhism is
>>18591202
>the phenomenal world is an illusion
Typical pajeet cope, their life sucks so much that they have to go "b-but it's all an illusion anyway haha"

>>18590082
Hold it, we get to eat Brahmin?

BRB killing some bourgeois subconties.

Any books on the Tibetan controversies?

Buddhism swallowed up all kinds of heterodox influences from the regions where it spread, inlcuding really crazy shit.

>>18591469
>he doesn't know heat can't kill prions
Finish high school then lurk on this board

>>18593506
I don't think they teach you about prions in HS though. At least I don't remember it

reading nietzsche and the hojoki made me realise buddhism is pretty much just nihilism but of course some people would say thats "based"

>>18590136
This
Its an amazing pop history book, very engrossing and interesting