new madhyamaka thread

[Anonymous No.22133926]

the last one died

[Anonymous No.22133939]

>>22133926
best books on Mahayana and Madhyamaka and Yogachara? All I have is Gadjin Nagao book on both and Tagawa Shunei's Living Yogacara. What else is good besides reading Nagarjuna etc. directly? I want to start studying it deeply in the future.

[Anonymous No.22134017]

>>22133939
The Yogacara Idealism : A. K. Chatterjee
Lusthaus, Dan. Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun.
The Central Philosophy of Buddhism-T. R. V. Murti
Buddhist Logic, Stcherbatsky,

[Anonymous No.22134027]

>>22133939
Westerhoff

[Anonymous No.22134121]

>>22134017
>>22134027
Really good recommendations. Thank you guys.

[Anonymous No.22134762]

>>22133926
Madhyamaka is the closest we can get to Early Buddhism.

Buddha taught the essence of Madhyamaka.
See the atthakavagga
See the agnivacanna sutta
See the kaccanagotta sutta
See the malunkya sutta

Reject abhidhamma
Reject mahayana
Reject mayavada

[Anonymous No.22134917]

>>22134762
>Early Buddhism is necessarily buddhism
>The Buddha's teachings are necessarily buddhism
>Documentary methods allow us to access the buddha's teachings

Go back to Martin Luther and stay there.

[Anonymous No.22135030]

>>22134917
>Noooo this fanfiction written by a random guy like 1500 years after the fact is the true™ Buddhism

[Anonymous No.22135066]

>read loads of Buddhist texts
>just become hopeless about life
>try to live a normal life but constantly just reminded of how unsatisfactory, futile and fleeting everything is and how good is always followed by bad
>try meditate but just find myself completely inept at it

How do I cope?

[Anonymous No.22135073]

>>22135066
Not being able to meditate for more than 20 minutes surely precludes the monk pill.

[S10241875 No.22135302]

>>22133926
>the last one died
Enjoy noble silence.

[Anonymous No.22135448]

>>22133926
>there should be a new madhyamaka thread
>there shouldn't be a new madhyamaka thread
>there both should and shouldn't be a new madhyamaka thread
>there should be neither a new nor not a new madhyamaka thread
help

[Anonymous No.22135691]

>>22135066
Remember that meditation is Step 8 on the Eightfold Path. If you're lacking in one of the other 7 steps, you'll struggle with the 8th.
Also, any skill is hard at first. When I learned to ride a bike, I was so bad I needed training wheels at first, like most people. Try baby steps. If you normally listen to music during a 10 minute walk to the bus stop, turn it off and try to focus on your breath or your footsteps for that whole walk. Maybe you can only do it for one minute at first, but you can work your way up.

[Anonymous No.22135910]

>>22135691
I can sometimes meditate very well for like 40 mins. Other times I can't even sit still for 10.

I follow the precepts and study the dhamma though

[Anonymous No.22135996]

>>22135066
Start slowly and don't beat yourself up about it. Meditating several times a day helps too.

[Anonymous No.22136005]

What would be the Buddha’s stance on pride month? Is it true that Buddha was a woman in a previous life and bodhisattva
Avalokiteshvara/Guanyin is transgender?

[Anonymous No.22136019]

>>22136005
Against it. Just another attachment.

[Anonymous No.22136088]

>>22136005
He would regard it as excessive attachment, clinging to and pride (right there in the phrase itself, after all) over a quality one is mistaking as constituting one’s self, as well as an undue glorification of sensuality.

> Is it true that Buddha was a woman in a previous life
Well, it’d be pretty hard to prove or know that for certain, but there may be legends about it. It doesn’t have any directly obvious bearing on his teachings

>bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara/Guanyin is transgender?
Androgyny as a symbol has been a common spiritual metaphor, not a literal advocation of physical androgyny. Usually as a symbol of balancing opposing qualities analogized as “male” and “female,” like activity and passivity, sternness and mercy, etc. In specific Buddhist symbology, I think it’s usually to represent the union of wisdom and of skillful means (to help enlighten others), or wisdom and compassion being another dichotomy.

[Anonymous No.22136248]

Why is Buddha depicted as a sleek, fat man with dainty features?