/lit/ - Literature

>>19626326
Buddha and Nietzsche are both dead. Some enlightenment.

>>19626332
No

>>19626348
Buddha is really dead because he "escaped" the cycle of rebirth what a fucking retard. Meanwhile my consciousness will live forever. I will see what the future holds for mankind while buddha rots in nothingness.

>>19626351
Life and death only occur in samsara. Buddha overcame both.

>>19626326
No, that would be Schopenhauer. Nietzsche is Schop/Buddha starting point but with a novel twist that allows you to embrace life anyway. He's Buddha if Buddha converted to Charvaka but kept the same belief in samsara.

>>19626372
Nietzsche’s fragmented will is far closer to emptiness than Schopenhauer’s Will.

>>19626397
Agree. Schope was relying on translations which among other things rendered dukkha as dolor, "pain," and his entire appreciation of Buddhism is based on assuming it is in agreement with his pessimism and quieting of the will in order to overcome pain. It is less a matter of pain and suffering and more that the elements (dharma) of experience as grasped are in a state of commotion or unrest... one suffers in the sense that this can be experienced as pain if his mind is weak or clouded and sees lasting substance in any of this momentariness to cling to. Nietzsche rejects Schope's Buddhism insofar as it is nihilism to him, but a passive nihilism free of ressentiment. A better understanding of Buddhism, especially through the prajñaparamita literature of Mahayana for which emptiness is the central concept, is not going to come around until well after Nietzsche, e.g. Stcherbatsky, Obermiller, Conze, or through popularizers of Zen like DT Suzuki. (Bataille and Heidegger are thus able to read Zen and Nietzsche and move in that direction somewhat). Certainly any formulation of samsara as not other than nirvana—as is common property of the Mahayana schools—would meet Nietzsche's definition of life affirming. The bodhisattva does will his own eternal return, for the benefit of the world, no matter how long it takes for others to mature.

>>19626508
Based

>>19626372
nietzsche is shankara
pbuh

>>19626553
Nietzsche is a crypto-Buddhist? Kind of, yeah.

>>19626326
He would’ve never drank the hemlock.

>>19626578
kek

>>19626326
Nietzsche based. But still blind, he didn't understand what was happening.

Not really. He'd be more like an Asura.

>>19626326
The faggot pseud plagarist of everywhere. Burn his books.

>>19626578
Does that make Nietzsche an actual Shankara?

>>19626508
Based

>>19626508
>more that the elements (dharma) of experience as grasped are in a state of commotion or unrest
Schop was well aware of this.