/lit/ - Literature

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The BU never made a definitive statement that reincarnation/soul transmigration was possible, it was merely posited as a theory but not as the truth while Shankara himself denies that Brahman ever transmigrates to begin with. Gotama Buddha never denied the Atta, rather, denied the aggregates of the status of the Self. Original Presectarian Buddhism didn't survive by the time Gaudapada came along. Unfortunately barely anyone understands Pali outside the commentaries that misinterpreted and oversimplified key Buddhist terminology like anatta/atta, citta, samma, jhana, attha, avijja/vijja, etc., due to people like Buddhagosa downgraded Samma into mere 'right' when it is much more than 'right' since samsammabuddha doesn't mean right right Buddha. Neither bhava nor vibhava is a refuge. Ultimately the best of Presectarian Buddhism was revived through Advaita, but that monophysite nondualism failed to elaborate upon physics which the Platonists and Neoplatonists perfected while the West using Plato's Timaeus as a general guide for creativity and experimentation had advanced physical science up to harnessing the force of nature itself as electricity and magnetism, a feat never accomplished from the East besides the Baghdad battery. In the end, even Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy(Anglicanization of Kumaraswami) looked towards the West. His contributions in geology dare I say, is more from his British side rather than his Tamil side. Why did the Greeks lead Europa to greatness while the Indians basically did nothing but infighting and religious syncretism spawning the likes of Sikhism and cucking to Islam? Who knows, probably because the West merely accumulated more good karma to focus more upon manifesting the good although globally we're all fucked in this era, both modern Greeks and Indians are materialistic and screwed themselves up.