/lit/ - Literature

>>20186950
less is more

The best short story is neither short nor a story

>>19271340 (not the guy you were responding to)
>I plan to put my efforts into purifying my soul
That must be why you're on a laotian waterskiing forum!
>so that it does not dissolve on death
Nitpick: the personality ("spirit" in some systems, "psyche" is most descriptive) is what dissolves, but your soul goes on to other personality-complexes until you liberate it via purification. Nonetheless I respect your endeavors and wish you well, it seems we are on similar paths.

>>18492457
>explicitly says there is no God
Buddha talks to God the Creator in the Majjhima Nikaya, and he discusses the possibility of union with Him in the Anguttara Nikaya (through a technique called the brahmavihara: Abodes of God). It's all well and good that you are satisfied with your own convictions; why get so angry about others' convictions that you would lie about them?

>>15857892

>>15848809
>purchased The synthesis of the objective and subjective
>spent the last 3 days straight reading it nonstop
>mfw I finished