/lit/ - Literature

>>13284936
i know, women taught me that very early on.

thank god

Even now I am self aware and it's beginning to piss me off.

OP, I don't feel so go-

Bold statement. Is it god speaking?

>>13284936
i'm the only person i can be sure does exist

>>13284936
Nah, fuck off Nothing-God.

>>13284967
You are.

>>13284936
t. hasn't actually read Nagarjuna
>Those whose mind has transcended
>Existence and non-existence and abides no more [in them],
>They’ve realized the meaning of conditioned existence,
>The profound absence of objectification.
- Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning, Verse 1

>To say “it is” is to grasp for permanence.
>To say “it is not” is to adopt the view of nihilism.
>Therefore a wise person
>Does not say “exists” or “does not exist.”
- Mulamadhyamakakarika

>>13284936
Nagarjuna is a brainlet

>>13284941
Based

Isn't this just the autistic, Jewish bastardization of a Buddhist teaching?

then who are u talking too
> C H E C K M A T E

>>13285094
Such a blah translation. Why do some modern translators feel the need to make profound philosophical and religious texts sound so casual and modern? “They’ve”, “to adopt the view of nihilism”. Fuck outta here.

The selection itself is spot-on, though.

>>13285068
if i dont exist how am i speaking

>>13284936
Then who wrote this?

>>13286160
give me the tl;dr on that bud

>>13284973
>>13286358
>>13286551
Even the idea of awareness being a fact of existence is an assumption. All understanding is human perception that evolved to fit, not necessarily mirror reality. Non-existence has cultural connotations. We can't comprehend the depths of zero, my guy.

>>13284936
Life is fleeting.

Does buddha nature exist?

Don’t need some fag chink to tell me that

Wrong

>>13287800
buddha nature is an idea crated by Mahayanists

>>13287936
I think not

>>13288231
not an argument.
It's taken from hinduism just renamed

>>13288231
higher awareness exists within all of us

Even if my illusion of myself exists, what is called the self is distinct from all other things in that if by illusion we mean "mere perception without an object perceived", then the mere perception is the object perceived, since the two are identical. As an illusion it has a very manifest causal efficacy as a real entity, namely as a user of language who says I and recognizes others as individuals.
But if it makes you feel better, sure I don't.

>>13287681
Nagarjuna pretends that he refutes all his opponents views, but he really doesn't

>>13284936
perhaps you have a wrong definition of existence, fag. the fact that i am there and interacting with the reality of the human sphere proves that i exist and do not live in solipsism.

>>13284936
no u

>>13286160
Nagarjuna's central point is not on refuting opponent's view, but on refuting ignorant innate misconceptions.
this post... is really cringe. actually.

>>13284936
Nagarjuna more like NIGGERjuna

Fuck off with your coalescing metaphysics. The One isn't a mushy mess like a black hole.
One>Many
The Many are contingent on the One. All thingS participate the One.

>>13288751
He just sounds like a disciple of the greek New/Skeptic Academy.

>>13284936
Then who are you talking to?

>>13284941
:(

>>13288275
>object oriented ontology

>>13284936
do you?

>>13287904
he was indian though. That's why the artist coloured his skin slightly dark.

the problem of the Indians is that they speculate too much

>>13284936
Thanks for telling me

>>13284936
I wish I didn't

>>13284936
Actually though... what is this sensory input other than a function that exists because it hasn’t been stopped yet? There’s no meaning or purpose to what I am, that idea too is just a chemical and therefore a physical reaction that has yet to dissipate. Pretty soon we’re all just going to die because we will have changed the environment to one other than the one we exist in, we’re just going to hit a rock and fizzle out like countless reactions before us.

Oof, thank God, that was close.

The possibility of existing and that reality was this badly implemented assembly of society, the possibility that civilization and reason could only be based on the genocide of enemies and that I would be able to endure half truths and complete lies were giving me the impression that only cowardice was the answer to ensure a minimum percentage of existence was despairing me.

Always liked you anyway.

>>13284941
>he's not able to exist for himself without external validation

>>13288275

>>13286358
"You" are in a constant state of flux, completely unfixed and impermanent in feelings and form. Every nano second, you cells are doing and replenishing. How can that isn't constant, be fixed into an identity without resorting to illusion?

>>13288791
Based

>>13284936
Yeah, I know.

Sometimes I spam text friends and 4chan, because I'm afraid I don't actually exist. Not that I imagined my whole life, or anything like that. Just that I'm not real. Sometimes people don't reply, and then I have an anxiety attack.

People are only reflections, and they don't exist if there's nothing to reflect.

Not existing would be fine, if I didn't have to be aware of it.

>>13287742
>Even the idea of awareness being a fact of existence is an assumption.
You showed this The Card fellow! Never liked that guy, what a dumb nickname, should of picked something different!