/lit/ - Literature

>>22561485
>ditch the retarded ideas it has, like the self not existing
Anatman or nairatmya is inseparable from the doctrine of all dharmas or elements of experience as being momentary—hence they are identityless. This is in the nikayas and is picked up with greater emphasis by Mahayanists, who are going to attack the reification of these dharmas by the Sarvastivadins, just as if they were as soluble as the skandhas/aggregates, and the exegetical method they use (sunyata) later evolves into its own formal school. So across both the earlier Buddhist schools and into the Mahayana, anatman remains the defining characteristic of Buddhism, and that which serves to consistently distinguish it from its many sectarian and non-Buddhist dialectical partners in India over the centuries.

>>19580817
If god is the prime mover and you believe in an ontological evil or that it is human nature to suffer then he is the cause of those things. If there are things he does not cause he is not a prime mover and apparently not even god anymore, and you are now a Manichean instead of a Christian. But whatever, not particularly relevant to Buddhists or a doctrine of momentariness that some other system believes in a permanent being. Easily dismissed as ignorance.

>>19193120
Based and charnelpilled

>>19105397
Where does thomas the tank theology contradict your implict thomism? But yes this is the designated shitting thread, so if you're not going to be mindful of a body shitting, buzz off.

>>19082890
>employs the fiction of life and death to save people
>uses deception
Since you've already indicated that you believe Buddha is the devil and outed yourself as a christer, you're literally too dumb to understand what is being said here, which is basically a form of nominalism, that the Buddha uses the signs of conventional language to guide sentient beings towards ultimate truths, which are beyond language. You yourself presumably believe "God" is beyond language, so this is not an idea you even disagree with; you merely hate Buddhism for considering god(s) beneath ultimate reality or truth.

>>18829953
/lit/ is a horrible place. We've got Jehovah's Witnesses proselytizing here now too.
>>18829918
There's already an apophatic teaching in Buddhism and it's not the atman. Knowledge of language doesn't guarantee accuracy of interpretation.

>>18339016
It's either a clever example of "corpse meditation" or retarded zoomers.
>>18338972
>theology
Keep seething indo-thomist
>>18338649
If you're committed enough get the Long Discourses or Middle Discourses and read one or two a day.

>>18309960
Wait wasn't everything Brahman? So you are an anti-non-dualist now just because you resent Buddhism being non-theology?

>>18218119
ngmi

You couldn't be reborn if you were permanent. Rebirth is conditioned. Conditioned things are impermanent.

Start with the Indo-Greeks.

>>17616397
>>17616314
you people are acting like there is much of a difference between Theravada and Mahayana

>>17563794
>things to be discarded too
That's also taught in the texts. I'm not a professional spiritual advisor, but as the saying goes "we like the stock"

>>17541196
Simple. As.

>>17516402

>>17490570
Meant for
>>17490500

Sounds like you got filtered by wikipedia since you're fixated on SUFFERING and various details of the Buddha's biography

>>17397048
>pic
kek, more like this?

Is it fitting to describe Buddhism as "just asian gnosticism"?

>>15983866
What about Vajrayana is considered heretical?