/lit/ - Literature

>>23173122
People are corpses in denial. Philosophy is a way to arrive at this conclusion earlier so you become a self-aware corpse before death. None of that is positive, none of that is negative. It's just the way things are. Only eternal darkness may save us, but even that would be meaningless.

>Yo bro you jealous of my enlightenment?
>You wanna learn how to attain this?

mummified meditating buddhists edition

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>>17460052
Spooks

As a Buddhist, I want you to shut up about Buddhism. None of you get it. All of you focus on stupid details. It's all so tiresome.

>>16895362
Also, self-mummification (Sokushinbutsu). Basically drinking arsenic water and small amounts of Japanese lacquer and other resins while starving to death and desiccating in a controlled way. That's pretty much the peak of edgy suicide. Imagine you do this and make your family watch :)

Just started a new routine of holotropic breathing for 30 minutes a day before sleep. The dream like physical and mental sensations cannot be understated. After my first week I've realized that the experience can be subtlety tweaked by things such as body position. There's a difference to the feeling of sitting cross legged, throne style, or laying down. Eye position is also important. Throughout experimenting I find myself returning to imagery and narratives I've absorbed from various spiritual sources as a guide. It's fun to apply things such as the concept of a third eye, mantras, or hand positions to see the effect that each has. In trying them out I see that spiritual signalings which seem superficial can all be used as tools.

This is one of the fantastic things about literature to me. Everything I absorb gives me another flower to behold in the garden in my mind, and the best sources give me a tool to tend to the garden with. If you all have a favorite literary tool or flower, I'd be glad to hear it.

Buddhism is rad as hell. Spending your entire life seeking the meaning of life, rejecting meaningless wordly things yet having absolute respect for all life on earth, until you reach the ultimate epiphany and ascend.
I can only wonder how enlightenment feels.

Daily reminder that reading literature is only secondary to meditation.