/lit/ - Literature

>>12999858
in a phrase, the wisdom of no escape:

>The meaning of Mahamudra is found in its name. Maha means “great” and mudra means “symbol” or “seal.” The Great Symbol referred to is the wisdom of emptiness, which is the very nature of our mind and of all phenomena—any object or idea the mind can observe or become aware of. Because it covers the totality of our experience, the Great Symbol is known as the all-encompassing reality from which there is no escape or exception. Mahamudra refers to the absolute quintessence of one's true nature, the ultimate view of realty, in which everything is “sealed,” or revealed, by emptiness. The Great Stance or Great Symbol of the non-dual Mahamudra teachings unveils the inherent, sacredness of all things by directly introducing innate awakened awareness.

>There is no phenomenon that is not emptiness;
>there is no phenomenon that is not interdependent.

>Everything dependent on conditionality
>is empty of self-nature.
>Such being the proclamation,
>is there anything more wonderful than this?

but here is the one that really sold me:

>The ultimate reality is beyond intellectual investigation,
>for the intellect is regarded as apparent reality.

speaking only for myself, it is exactly the thing i want as a double defrag from both Girardian nightmares and Landian nightmares. with Spinoza, Deleuze, many others, we find ourselves completely blurring the distinction between thinking and feeling, and the move out of postmodern irony leads only to paranoia, i have found. said paranoia has no end. but this is exactly where i start finding Buddhism making sense to me: you (read: me) have to pay attention to your thoughts, because the mind cannot represent itself. it's true that Landian capital resists easy Derridean-style deconstruction, but what, if anything, deconstructs said paranoia? very little, save mindfulness. we can, and arguably must, recognize that not every call coming from inside the house is necessarily authentic. Land's theory is powerfully consistent, and absolute kryptonite for a lot of things i really wanted kryptonite for. but all forms of kryptonite are ultimately addictive in this way.

so i don't know if there *is* a social praxis, but there is a kind of /acc rehab, because i'm not really interested in fuelling any more hatred, fear or paranoia than already exists. and unironically feels good man also. the hate - in any form - really doesn't need my help. it does kind of feel like waking up, in a way. this is not to say the other stuff is delusional, because it really isn't. just that an addiction to theory, or convincing yourself that you are beyond good and evil in any way, just doesn't seem as appealing to me now as a middle path, between desire and non-desire. paying attention to thoughts as they occur and trying to cultivate a little more chill is a good look for people like me. everybody has different feelings and comes to different things at different times tho.