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I want a good book about the suffering-satisfaction inherent to all existence and the lack of meaning in life

Poetry, novels, philosophy, religious writings, I take everything

I already know Cioran, Michelstaedter, Baudelaire, Khayyam, Gautama, etc.

I want to comfort myself in the dark, a book that makes you want to take the plunge (I can't think of a better one than Michelstaedter for that at the moment)

Thanks

>> No.18866680

I've also already read Palahniuck - Fight Club

>> No.18866685

>>18866680
And Houellebecq

>> No.18866690

>>18866676
>about the suffering-satisfaction
dissatisfaction*, typo

>> No.18866719

Bahnsen, Lacarriere, Lindsay

>> No.18866725

>>18866719
Name books please

>> No.18866737

>>18866725
Hunt around for Bahnsen. Jacques Lacarriere's The Gnostic, David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus.

Also throw in Chekhov's The Bet for good measure.

>> No.18866750

>>18866737
>Jacques Lacarriere's The Gnostic
Second time you recommand me this anon
Is it really good? I already know I have a gnostic mindset and the historical christian gnostics dont interest me that much

>> No.18866760

>>18866750
Yes. It's a sign. Jesus /lit/ is getting smaller every day.

>> No.18866768

>>18866760
Too bad i can't find the book on z-lib
I'll think about it

>> No.18866774

>>18866768
just google it man

>> No.18866777

>>18866760
>Jesus /lit/ is getting smaller every day.
I'm more interested in dharmic paths than christianity
And even if I was christian i would be catholic or orthodox, I don't believe in the gnostic version of Jesus, it's apocryphal and way latter

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>> No.18866779

>>18866774
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jacques-lacarriere-the-gnostics omg yeah
I was lookin in french lmao
Thanks i will read it

>> No.18866784

>>18866777
tiantai buddhism and gnosticism are the highest wisdom traditions on the planet

>> No.18866815

>>18866784
I don't quite believe in anatman but yeah buddhist analysis of dukkha is pretty based
Gnosticism i can't believe in it for historical reasons
It's a late heresy
And each gnostic had his own weird system
Not enough coherent to me

>> No.18866830

>>18866815
you've yet to disassociate gnosis as living knowledge from gnosticism as a late heresy like you said. neither have the majority of the "scholars" who study it. I'm giving you the keys to blaze past them.

>> No.18866848

>>18866830
No i know that i'm guenonian
I'm talking about historical gnosticism

>> No.18866859

>>18866676
I doubt you'll find better than Michelstaedter

>> No.18866950
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Degree of suffering that is necessary for learning —and, consequently, for perfection— is directly proportional to degree of restitution that is required for nobility in spacetime, and to degree of glory that is imperative for nobility in timespace.

In order to reach, and maintain, the fourth wind in the moment of one's suffering, the rate of one's relief/relevation should exceed that of one's injury/damage.

>> No.18866962

>>18866950
>mix buzzwords
Yeah sure

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>>18866962
>mix buzzwords
Their soft buzz does not magnergize your puny brain because you are not going hard enough.

>> No.18867040

>>18867036
I forgive you thanks to the Livai pic