The Middle Way

[Anonymous No.16501375]

I am looking for authors similar to Alan Watts and Eckhart Tolle.

What do you recommend?

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.16501383]

Read some actual eastern material, read Linji, read bankei, abhinavagupta, shankara, Kukai, Chuang Tzu, Longchenpa and many many many others.

[Anonymous No.16501391]

Try the Buddhist canon.

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>>16501375
Terrence McKenna and Ram Dass

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.16501418]

Oh and Robert Anton Wilson

[Anonymous No.16501450]

>>16501383
Wow I've never heard of a single one of them. Checking them out now though. Interesting.

Better read these than J Krishnamurti and other more modern Indians?

[Anonymous No.16501458]

>>16501409
> Terrence McKenna
Are his books better than his talks? Always though he was hard to follow.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.16501477]

>>16501450

Those are pretty garbo, there’s good moderns for example Vivekananda, the teachings of ramakrishna, ramana Maharishi and so forth.

[Anonymous No.16501576]

>>16501477
Im gonna start with Bankei. Thanks mate. Amazing tips.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.16501583]

>>16501576

Not a problem my dude, I’m sure if you make a thread about any of their traditions or specific authors at least a couple of anons will respond if you need further help.

[Anonymous No.16501584]

>>16501375
>Alan Watts and Eckhart Tolle

[Anonymous No.16502831]

>>16501584
theyre based

[Anonymous No.16502846]

are you a woman? hippie girls love listening to alan watts edm remixes.

why do women love empty "spirituality" so much lads?

[Anonymous No.16502856]

>>16501375
cringe and gay unless woman then you can't do anything about it

[Anonymous No.16502873]

>>16502846
>alan watts
>empty "spirituality"
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>>16502846
>>16502873
Tradcath can’t cope

[Anonymous No.16503291]

>>16501375
I actually like Watts. He's very intelligent and knows his shit, but he is quite reductionist. Seraphim Rose (a student of Watts') is a much cooler figure though, as evidenced by the fact that one might be canonized as a modern saint soon and the other died in a depressive alcoholic stupor.

[Anonymous No.16503410]

>>16502831
t woman

[Anonymous No.16503833]

Attention revolution by b Alan Wallace

Alan watts is a good intro to Buddhist thought but is pretty dated, he came from a time when Buddhism was in an awkward stage of being translated to the west and he gets some crucial stuff wrong. But again he’s good for what he is and an adequate into

Attention revolution is an amazing guidebook for the practice of meditation, which is the true meat and potatos of Buddhism, the beginning and the end, and it’s better to start with a basic instruction on meditation before diving deeper into buddhism

[Anonymous No.16503896]

>>16503833
It's not that he gets buddhism wrong, he just had his own peculiar views which came out of his mix of buddhism, vedanta and the western perspective.
I find it's actually quite hard to find points where Alan Watts was outright wrong versus where he simplifies things to communicate more effectively with laypeople.

[Anonymous No.16503924]

>>16501383
Seconding linji

[Anonymous No.16503932]

>>16503896
True true, I guess I’d say that he can get too lost in the concepts instead of the practices of Buddhism, like his poetic descriptions of the nothingness of the mind seem to be too lost in the concept itself instead of pointing towards the practice of realizing the nothingness of the mind, if that makes sense
His writing in this sense isn’t necessarily wrong in any logical way, but a monk might say that he’s not going about it in the most expedient way

[Anonymous No.16503942]

>>16501383
>abhinavagupta

The guy who wrote Tantraloka? Is that really suitable for someone interested in basic eastern philosophy?

[Anonymous No.16503979]

>>16502846
Because women are incapable of being celibate and sober, let alone practice any kind of ascesis. They will follow any religion that doesn't prohibit sexual promiscuity, and drug and alcohol consumption.

[Anonymous No.16503993]

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[Anonymous No.16504446]

>>16503979
stop projecting, coomer