Buddhism

[Anonymous No.14682195]

I'm trying to get into buddhism.

I currently am reading a book on Nagarjuna and Emptiness, and I feel like I need some more knowledge about the canon to understand it right.

What can you recommend to start getting into buddhism? I can read english and spanish.

[Anonymous No.14682197]

>>14682195
>I'm trying to get into buddhism.
for what purpose

[Anonymous No.14682201]

>>14682195
Dhammapada
Pali Canon
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Dalai Lama- On Dying Well

[Anonymous No.14682208]

>>14682197
Because he wants to be feel emanation for the coming Maitreya.

[Anonymous No.14682218]

>>14682197
Mainly just philosophical curiosity althought I think I would like to try some meditation

[Urantia poster No.14682253]

>>14682195
Dhammapada

and this on Zen Buddhism

>The Religion of the Samurai
A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/rosa/index.htm

[Give up, "you" are in the way(...) No.14682255]

>>14682195
>Whatever pursuit you are indulging in, somewhere along the line it has to dawn on you that it is not leading you anywhere. As long as you want something, you will do that. That want has to be very, very clear. What do you want? All the time I ask you the question, "What do you want?" You say, "I want to be at peace with myself." That is an impossible goal for you because everything you are doing to be at peace with yourself is what is destroying the peace that is already there. You have set in motion the movement of thought which is destroying the peace that is there, you see. It is very difficult to understand that all that you are doing is the impediment, is the one thing that is disturbing the harmony, the peace that is already there

>If you are freed from the goal of the "perfect" ,"godly", "truly religious" then that which is natural in man begins to express itself. Your religious and secular culture has placed before you the ideal man or woman, the perfect human being, and then tries to fit everybody into that mold. It is impossible. Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque

>Political institutions and ideologies are the warty outgrowth of the religious thinking of the man; in a way responsible for the tragedy of mankind. We are slaves to our ideas and beliefs, and we torture ourselves in the hope of achieving something. All our experience, spiritual or otherwise, is the basic cause of our suffering... The body is not interested in anything "you" are interested in; that is the battle that is going on all the time.

>The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know. All these therapies, all these techniques, religious or otherwise, are only perpetuating the agony of man.

[Anonymous No.14682264]

>>14682195
I’m reading Religion and Nothingness and it’s helped me understand a lot.

[Anonymous No.14682558]

>>14682218
>Mainly just philosophical curiosity
Eastern "philosophy" is not really philosophy. You are being misled.
>meditation
What do you mean "try some meditation"? Stop trying to attach esoteric meme values to contemplation. Meditation isn't unique to the East. Every single culture since the beginning of recorded history has had meditation. Even ancient Greeks had Melete.

[Anonymous No.14682609]

As someone who has never read a book, is this a good book to start with? I saw this in /lit/'s wiki, but I don't know what exactly an entry level means, I'm a high school dropout and have never properly read a book.

[Anonymous No.14682619]

>>14682218
Ignore that other idiot anon. Vipassana is much more profound than western "meditation." Research to your hearts content.

[Anonymous No.14682635]

>>14682609
Also, may I know whose translation should I be reading?

[Anonymous No.14682657]

>>14682619
>Vipassana is much more profound than western "meditation."
Then why is Eastern "philosophy" a bucket of steaming shit?