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Where can I start with Buddhism? I have several /lit/ Buddhism charts but they feel overwhelming

>> No.17940110

>>17939994
Oh well. Better give up and go back to church, I guess.

Whatever you do, throw out the damn blowjacks

>> No.17941292

>>17939994
https://www.amazon.com/What-Buddha-Taught-Expanded-Dhammapada/dp/0802130313

>> No.17941316

>>17939994
Unless you are Asian, don’t bother, the Christian faith offers everything.
Want to mediate? Do the hesychasm or other monk practices.

>> No.17941732

>>17940110
>>17941316
im not a christian

>> No.17941737

>>17941292
seems solid, thanks anon

>> No.17941740

stop it with the gay charts, just start with the Dhammapada, it's that simple

>> No.17941751

Don't.

t. confucianist

>> No.17941766

>>17939994
>Where can I start with Buddhism?
Start with Kant, then move on to Schopenhauer of course

>> No.17941774

>>17941751
why would anyone who isn’t chinese be a confucianist? You literally cant live a confucianist life without other people

>> No.17941781

>>17941774
other nations have people too, anon

>> No.17941802

>>17941781
Yea, but to be a confucianist you literally depend on other people to be confucianist as well. Literally can't be a confucianist without other practitioners

>> No.17941811

>>17941802
how so?

>> No.17941816

>>17941732
But you should be,
Your interest in Buddhism is clearly based on some misconceptions about both Buddhism and Christianity

>> No.17941829

>>17941816
what misconception? I literally said nothing about buddhism. I want to learn more.
>>17941811
well, for one, you need your family to be confucianist if you want a proper confucianist experience (father-son relationship for instance)

>> No.17941856

>>17941829
Confucians in China would be filial to their father, regardless of their father's behavior or beliefs. I think you're making wisdom with universal applicability into a narrow doctrine that's essentially dead and irrelevant. You gotta start with yourself and through your own conduct cultivate the "Confucian" virtues of others.

>> No.17941901

>>17941856
Where do I start with Confucianism anon?

>> No.17941976

>>17939994
beginning, middle and end with the pali sutras

dhammatalks.org/sutras

>> No.17942031

>>17941766
basado

>> No.17942264

>>17941901
All you need to know is that Confucius lived in Ancient China, a land of many rival kingdoms. He'd get together with his friends and followers to discuss the question of How To Live. The Analects is a collection of sayings attributed to him and his followers. He emphasizes family and tradition, in his case the traditions of the preceding dynasty, and the importance of people learning their own history and folklore, in his case as captured in The Spring and Autumn Annals (a book of history) and the Book of Songs (a collection of folksong).

The only book you need to read to get it is The Analects. David Hinton version is cheap and somewhat approximates the brevity of the original. Others are fine too, don't get suckered into buying an expensive academic edition. Like all Oriental Wisdom books, there's a gazillion different versions all promising something new and crucial to your understanding. But ultimately you don't need any of it, no intros, no commentaries, no footnotes. The Analects is short and can be read and understood quickly. Spergs will furiously disagree but I can't help that.

The book of sayings attributed to Mencius is a more long-form version of the Analects with less brevity and wit. It's interesting but inessential, but if you like the Analects check it out.

>> No.17943224

>>17941740

>> No.17943504
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>>17939994
Just read the Dhammapada, its not that long and its the purest Dharma manual out there, Sutras are if you wanna go deeper.

http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/scrndhamma.pdf

>> No.17943524

>>17943504
>>17939994
also skip to chapter 1, no intro needed.

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17943548

Start by accepting that, Existing is suffering.

Everything else is bullshit rulers/religions trying to highjack enlightenment.

>> No.17943586

>>17941316
>the Christian faith offers everything
>Unless you are Asian
care to explain anon?

>> No.17943601

>>17943548
>Existing is suffering
this

>> No.17943611

If you want to start with the Mahayana (closest to being "reformed") i would go with the heart sutra. Short and lots of commentary if you want to dive in.
For the Theravada (closest to "orthodox"), start with the dhammapada, but "in the buddhas words" you can also get as a pdf.

>> No.17943622

can some patrician post the chart op was filtered by?

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>>17943622
there is another one but this is the one I have

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>>17943997
thank you! there were two in the wiki but neither of them were that one. in the wiki there was pic related

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>>17944538
and