/lit/ - Literature

Don’t mind me, the greatest spiritual teacher and writer on metaphysics of the last 500 years, I’m just passing through.

INTP

INTP

>literally discovers the meaning of life

just kidding everyone already knows he's right, only lefturds disagree and they don't count since they are the plebs who belong on the farm

>The traditional sciences … constitute … a preparation for a higher knowledge and a way of approach to it, and by virtue of their hierarchical arrangement according to the levels of existence to which they refer, they form, as it were, so many rungs by which it is possible to climb to the level of pure intellectuality. It is only too clear that modern sciences cannot in any way serve either of these purposes; this is why they can be no more than “profane science,” whereas the traditional sciences … are effectively incorporated in “sacred science.”

>retroactively futes theism, Abrahamism and anti-butterflyism

>Gwen-non

>Christianity says you will go to hell if you don't believe Jesus is God, Islam says you will go to hell if you believe Jesus is God. But both are ultimately true

So... is he saying everyone goes to hell?

One time Fleet Foxes played a show in Germany, only a couple kilometers away from the concentration camp at Dachau. After soundcheck, I got on the folding bike I kept on the bus. It was a lush early-summer day, and I found a river path to ride, past old cottages with limp laundry struggling to dry in the heavy air, with German birds chirping by swollen riverbanks in dapply diffuse leaf light, an impossibly perfect, ancient-feeling, very European, ‘sylvan idyll’. It was the most beautiful day on that tour, a beautiful day in Dachau. After the path opened up, I passed a golf course, and I rode away from the water, pedaled my way to the prison camp memorial. Outside the gates I thought about the twelve years when it was ‘operating’, 1933-1945, and those twelve summers, some hundreds of days just as beautiful and lush, water just as clear, air just as sweet, while meters away mankind was destroying itself. I was stalled on my bike, inhabiting the dissonance of that thought, imagining hanging laundry at the riverside there in 1938, raising children, playing games, all the while knowing or ignoring what was going on nearby. How could they live in that shadow? Was there ever joy, and how?

Every warm day since April, as we’ve watched an incompetent administration let tens of thousands die, and leave tens of millions hung out to dry, I’ve said to myself with some ironic detachment, ‘it’s a beautiful day in Dachau today.’ It’s been a coping mechanism. These last few days, though, I’ve had to recognize and accept that it’s been a beautiful day in Dachau here for 400 fucking years, and I have always known exactly how those Germans did it, because that’s how I’ve been getting through my life this whole goddamn time: by ignoring it, or accepting it, or writing it off as bigger than me, or by telling myself I’m an ally, at least not “one of the bad ones,” or too busy just trying to navigate and wrangle my own mind and privileged circumstances. So back then in Dachau, when I was asking myself “how could they have possibly lived through that, on beautiful days like this,” I should have had the perspective to instead ask, “how can I?”

Did Guenon poster retire? Where is he? Kind of miss him

I see you haven’t been made aware that process philosophy is off the table

>>15056710
>William Lane Craig
refute by Guenonacharya (pbuh)

Pls reccomend some books to make me happy, im suddenly depressed and suicidal and crying a lot and very confused, pls rec a book that will make me not kill myself because i really want to
Pic unrelated sorry its the smallest image i have so um...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YzjfCHAqo

Bruh look at this dude AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHH

>BTFOs philosophy
>BTFOs Christianity
>BTFOs paganism
>BTFOs scientism
>BTFOs deviants
Name a more based writer in the 20th century. Pro tip: You can't.

>>14728272
You aint wrong. Its a shame the Guenon threads got subverted by Larpers

>When speaking of divergence in the west in relation to the east, which has become increasingly marked in modern times, we said that we did not think that this divergence could go on developing indefinitely, in spite of all appearances. In other words, it seems difficult to believe that the west, both in respect to its mentality and all its characteristic tenancies, can continue to draw further and further away from the east, as it is now doing, without sooner or later calling forth a reaction which might, under certain circumstances, have the happiest results; indeed such an uninterrupted divergence seems to us all the more unlikely since the realm within which modern Western civilisation is developing is, by its very nature, the most restricted of any.


Has Guenon prophesied the upcoming of the Traditionalist Zoomer revolution?
To all my bros here who actually like Guenon and aren't just larping

Put down your Platos and your Deleuzes, pick up Guenon and pursue the genuis; the only true way of life.

>>14469607
Retroactive refutism

So, he's a Muslim? What do I read by him if I want to be converted to Islam?

Someone please explain to me:
Why did Guenon eventually conclude that Buddhism was just a continuation of the Upanishadic teachings?
Why did he believe that Buddhism in its earliest form taught of the Brahman, the soul, the path to immortality...etc (and don't just say "because Buddhism originated in India and spiritual teachings all revolved around the Vedas and Upanishads").
I've seen some very obscure translations around of suttas from the Pali Canon which lean towards Buddhism being a sort of proto-Vedanta - is this what people are getting this from?
It is already clear that Mahayana (and later) texts and teachings came historically after the Pali Canon. Is the idea that Mahayana was a rough return to form of some sort of pre-Pali Canon Buddhism? Or is the claim that everyone is just mis-translating the PC texts and that Buddhism taught Brahman and the soul all along?

>>14076187
Euh no, he actually looks supra-human