/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14449377]

>good peasants, everything is evil, it is futile to fight, all attachments are worthless, do nothing while we exploit the fuck out of you and enslave you.

buddhism is awfully convenient for tyrannical despots isn't it?

[Anonymous No.14449390]

>>14449377

"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.

[Anonymous No.14449937]

>>14449390
>not an argument
>complete lack of understanding of upaya
>misunderstanding of shunyata
Ah, so this is what you fags call a retroactive refutation

[Anonymous No.14449944]

>>14449390
ruined this board

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14449953]

>>14449377
Yeah, that's why the despots are trying to stamp it out in Tibet.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14449963]

>>14449390
It's five systems not three and they're not contradictory.

[Anonymous No.14449965]

>>14449953

>The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Atrocious take