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11645535 No.11645535 [Reply] [Original]

How doesn't /lit/ ever talk about this dude? Nigga dropping bombs like Zhuangzi.

>A discerning man questioned one of the indifferent, whom he saw to be very foolish and thoughtless, saying, Hast thou ever seen saffron, or hast thou only heard the name? He said, I have it by me, and have eaten a good deal of it, not once only, but a hundred times and more. Said the wise and discerning man to him, Bravo, wretch! Well done, my friend! Thou knowest not that there is a bulb as well!

>> No.11645552

>>11645535
>How doesn't /lit/ ever talk about this dude?

/lit/ 2-3 year long transition into becoming extremely well-read in eastern thought is still only like 75% complete at most

>> No.11645557

>>11645552
how did it start?

>> No.11645566

>>11645552
75%? I mean...that's pretty generous

>> No.11645583

>>11645552
how'd it begin? anyone know?

>> No.11645598
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>Possessing knowledge, possess also serenity like the mountain; be not distressed at the disasters of fortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlighted candle, both together are like the bee's honey; honey without wax typifies the noble, wax without honey is only for burning.

>Abandon this abode of generation and corruption; leave the pit, and make for thy destined home; for on this dry heap of dust is a mirage, and fire appears as water. The man of pure heart unites the two worlds in one; the lover makes but one out of all three abodes.

goddamn

>> No.11646217

>>11645583
>>11645557
i created the rene guenon reading chart and it snowballed from there

>> No.11646458

I would if you gave me a book

>> No.11646469

>>11645535
Not of us are patrician enough to be literate in Persian.

>> No.11646905

>>11646458

http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/egt/egt11.htm

start here

>> No.11646916

>>11645535
where should I start with Sanai?

>> No.11646921

>>11646916
Here: >>11646905

he's got such a great knack for mystical imagery

>By reason and thought and sense no living thing can come to know God. When the glory of His nature manifests itself to reason, it sweeps away both reason and soul. Let reason be invested with dignity in the rank where stands the faithful Gabriel; yet before all His majesty a Gabriel becomes less than a sparrow through awe; reason arriving there bows down her head, the soul flying there folds her wing.

>> No.11646929

>>11646921
I really want to have a physical book tough.

>> No.11646932

>>11646929
https://www.amazon.com/Enclosed-Garden-Truth-Hakim-Sanai/dp/1530487617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534677236&sr=8-1&keywords=sanai

>> No.11646958

>>11645535
>Thou knowest not that there is a bulb as well!
mind-blowing, surprised the thread isn't full of cancerous reaction gifs

>> No.11646960

>>11646932
Much thanks

>> No.11646982

>>11645566
40% of it's me

>> No.11647097

>>11645552
>Persian
>Eastern
Only from a Eurocentric perspective.
China and India are as different from each other as the Islamic world is from India, and Western Europe is from the Islamic world. Even within the Islamic world, Persia and South Arabia (the land of the Two Holy Cities) are no less different from each other than Germany is from Spain.

>> No.11647565

>>11646217
you should have noted his metaphysical core should be begun with man and his becoming and the metaphysical principles of infitesimal calculus isnt exactly essential

>> No.11647572

>>11647097
They're still eastern tho