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How do I into buddhism, what texts do I start with and in which order do I read the canon?

>> No.19325236

>>19325222
>what texts do I start with

1) Moralizing Proselytism for Dummies
2) The Absence of Soul: Reflections on Being an NPC
3) The Isvara Delusion: Why Religion Ruins Everything
4) A Sourcebook of Sophistic Relativism
5) The Extinction of the Aggregate of Consciousness is not Annihilationism Because it Never Existed to Begin With: Parsing Mahayana Dialectics

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>>19325222
Read Seraphim Rose

>> No.19325269

How come I keep seeing schizophrenia glorified through memes?

>> No.19325363

>>19325269
mental illness is trendy, some think it gives them depth., and everyone is self diagnosing something so they can stand out.

>> No.19325376

>>19325269
Deleuze

>> No.19325396

>>19325269
A lot of political prisoners are getting diagnosed as an act of gaslighting and persecution, so it's only natural that it's becoming satirized. Also Big Pharma made all the pills and needs customers.

>> No.19325425

>>19325363
>>19325269
Underrated
>I have le autism, I'm so quirky!:^)
>I post on 4chan, I have le autism!:^)
>I can't focus, my doctor said I have ADHD!:^)
>I have anxiety, because it's quirky to exaggerate what other people think of you and definitely not something that happens to everyone else!:^)
>heheh I'd hang out with friends but I get nervous, I'm so quirky with my mental illness!:^)
>I can't talk to women because of my perceived mental illness, not because I'm socially maladjusted and mentally unhealthy!:^)
>My [self-caused problem] is just my [self-diagnosed ""mental illness""]!:^)
>I'm the opposite of neurotypical!:^)

It's a fad; no online community is immune, especially the faggots on 4chan. Just in case you think you're special for saying "nigger" on an anime board anon -- you aren't. You're a redditor/Tumblrina in a different skirt marching to the same drum beat

>> No.19325436

>>19325425
Fucking reddit get the fuck out of here, stupid dickhead.

>> No.19325441

>>19325269
I think Internet has desensitized people, they now need stronger fixes for their "morbid curiousity", from this has emerged a mainstream demand for surreal/horror content including stuff dealing with psyche/trauma (check out what any millenial/zoomer is watching on YouTube)
Also, trolling is a mental illness

>> No.19325457

>>19325436
>Reddit is so different from us! We don't have upvotes and can say bad words! We faithfully cling to a culture of contrarianism and edginess, which is so much better than their culture of vapid niceties and soi!! We r ubermensch!
>I have le autism:^)
Where am I wrong, retard? You gonna piss and shit?

>> No.19325461

>>19325222
i'd start with the eknath easwaran's dhammapada. super easy to read and the intro is a better written and condensed version of siddhartha.

or just read siddhartha if you want something even more readable since it's a novel.

>> No.19325472

>>19325457
I don't know what the fuck you think you're doing here, get the fuck out asshat.

>> No.19325474

>>19325255
I remember that thread.

>> No.19325476

>>19325436
>le redditxD
You're not special for going on 4Chan, just like you aren't special for having a self-diagnosed mental "illness."

>> No.19325484

>>19325269
Because you're schizophrenic

>> No.19325485

>>19325472
>leave my safe space!
>leave my message board!
No. Fucking. Difference.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it, N I G G E R

>> No.19325486

>>19325472
The string vibrates when it's plucked :^)

>> No.19325487

>>19325425
>>I can't talk to women because of my perceived mental illness, not because I'm socially maladjusted and mentally unhealthy!:^)
What did he mean by this

>> No.19325490

>>19325425
In general I agree with you, but then I ask, where does society go from here in terms of dealing with those in society who do suffer lifelong mental pathologies?

I mean, it's clear that this attitude of radical openness and sincerity (*cough*) about one's mental state is unsustainable - carried out to its logical extreme everyone simply claims whichever mental illness that they evaluate to provide the greatest ratio of positive to negative social clout to themselves.

But at the same time Japan already exists as a case study of what total denial of mental illness does to a modern society - and I don't think we want to go down that path.

Other than banning women from social media, what is to be done?