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What's your one life guide book you always carry with you?

>> No.22743852

>>22743798
Imagine something happening in life and you whip out a hardcover 600+ page book to reference what to do.
OP you’re either breaking age limit on here or never touched grass, no one carries a life reference book lmao. Gtfoh

>> No.22743858

>>22743798
Otto Weininger's GESCHLECHT UND CHARAKTER (1903).

>> No.22744007

>>22743798
It used to be Diamond Sutra translated by Red Pine (the version with the copious commentary).

>> No.22744013

>>22743798
The bible

>> No.22744189
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>>22743798
yeah no

>> No.22744352

>>22744189
Why not just go to the source and carry Rising Tide of Color by Stoddard, an asian writing a book in the west complaining about anti-asian fear probably proves his point

>> No.22744835
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22744835

>Every decade gets proven to be true more and more
>Even cutting edge quantum physics keeps proving it right

>> No.22744841

>>22743798
Any other eastern philosophy books you recommend?

>> No.22744844

>>22743798
The Dhammapada translated by Juan Mascaro
Tao Te Ching translated by Addis and Lombardo
Meditations translated by Hays

>> No.22744846

>>22744835
>Even cutting edge quantum physics keeps proving it right
Which passage, specifically?

>> No.22744851

>>22743798
Montaigne
Spinoza
Nietzsche

>> No.22744861

>>22744844
Mascaro is great. He also did some of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, and I liked his versions best out of all the ones I read

>> No.22744864

>>22744844
>>22744861
Forgot to add the Addiss Lombardo TTC is my favorite as well. Good taste

>> No.22745098

>>22744864
Thanks!
I have Mascaros Gita but haven't read it yet

>> No.22745204
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A book that has become my life guide wouldn't be something I carry around because I have internalized and studied it's message.
Would be the ego and it's own if I absolutely had to give an answer but saying it's my life guide is stretching it.
Also the notion of that wouldn't be in line with the message of it.

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>>22744352
>complaining about anti-asian fear
>YELLOW PERIL
>nothing to worry about

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>>22743798
The bible