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[Anonymous No.14805732]

In seeing things
To be or not to be
Fools fail to see
A world at ease

[Anonymous No.14805737]

Although you may spend your life killing
you will not exhaust all your foes
But if you quell your own anger
your real enemy will be slain

[Anonymous No.14805741]

The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one has achieved nothing

[Anonymous No.14805747]

All philosophies are mental fabrications
There has never been a single doctrine
by which one could enter
the true essence of things

[Anonymous No.14805751]

>>14805737
>if you kill your enemies they win
WTF I love Canada now?

[Anonymous No.14805754]

If there is no essence,
What could become other?
If there is essence,
What could become other?

[Anonymous No.14805760]

if an astronomer calculates from the sky
he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the star
but in his house the womenfolk are at variance
and he does not perceive their various misconduct

[Anonymous No.14805766]

Alas, the evil man and
Phlegm (mucous) are really alike.
By mildness they are excited
And by roughness (astringent) they are soothed.

[Anonymous No.14805773]

A different thing depends on a different thing for its difference.
Without a different thing, a different thing wouldn't be a different
It is not tenable for that which depends on something else
To be different from it.
But if a different thing were different from a different thing,
Without a different thing, a different thing could exist.
But without that different thing, that different thing does not exist.
It follows that it doesn't exist, for a different thing
Depends on a different thing for its difference.
Without a different thing, a different thing wouldn't be a different
It is therefore not tenable for that which depends on something else
To be different from it.

[Anonymous No.14806261]

If you are ever desirous of friendship
Then do not do these three:
Laying wagers, money transactions,
And speaking privily with women.

[Anonymous No.14806268]

The way of the wise man is knowledge,
The way of the cuckoo is a sweet note,
The way of the ascetic is patience,
The way of a woman is perversity

[Anonymous No.14806662]

What’s a very accessible intro to Nagarjuna’s philosophy? Even if it oversimplifies things, that’s ok. I just want something basic.

[Anonymous No.14806711]

>>14806268
Based as always

[Anonymous No.14806967]

>>14806662
Jay Garfield's translation and commentary of his magnum opus (mulamadhyamakakarika) deals with most of this stuff in the simplest way. CW Huntington, Jan Westerhoff and Richard Robinson are also great sources with more background info but their books are probably more extensive for a 'basic' introduction.

[Anonymous No.14807058]

Mahayana is Hinduism larping as buddhism

[Anonymous No.14807138]

>>14806967
Thanks, much appreciated

[Anonymous No.14807143]

>>14805732
https://discord.gg/E22wu2Y

[Anonymous No.14807202]

>>14805751
no, killing to quell a emotion is in vain

[Anonymous No.14807223]

>>14805737
Basado

[Anonymous No.14807658]

>>14806268
>>14806261
>>14805773
>>14805760
really inspiring

[Anonymous No.14808034]

>>14805773

[Anonymous No.14808087]

>>14805732
>>14805737
>>14805741
>>14805747
>>14805754
>>14805760
>>14805766
>>14805773
>>14806261
>>14806268
Brainlet here, what text(s) are these from?

[Anonymous No.14808123]

>>14808087
https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/srdb/srdb.htm
https://archive.org/details/NagarjunaTheFundamentalWisdomOfTheMiddleWay

[Anonymous No.14808277]

>>14808123
why did no one tell me he was this based....

[Anonymous No.14808447]

>>14808277
hindus are not based

[Anonymous No.14808459]

>>14808123
>Nagarjuna
Wasn't he a radical buddhist?

[Anonymous No.14808465]

>>14808447
>hindus
Nagarjuna subscribed to Pyrrhonism, which is Greek, and was taught to them by Buddhists, who were taught by the Buddha, whom was a Scythian, and they were Nords.

[Anonymous No.14808656]

>>14808465
kys

[Anonymous No.14808663]

>>14806261
>And speaking privily with women.
what dat mean

[Anonymous No.14808735]

>>14808656
Jokes on you, I don't have one.

[Anonymous No.14808780]

>>14808459
Nagarjuna was not a buddhist. Nagarjuna was an indian intellectual turning the buddhist philosophy at the time with the vedas.

[Anonymous No.14808784]

>>14808459
Nagarjuna was not a buddhist. Nagarjuna was an indian intellectual casting the buddhist philosophy at the time into the vedas, because indian intellectuals only know the vedas and suck at buddhism.

[Anonymous No.14808862]

>>14808784
Nothing vedic about Nagarjuna's philosophy. There is something Nagarjunian about Vedanta though.

[Anonymous No.14808885]

>>14808862
>Vedanta
no there isn't, vedanta is a set of schools which common signifiers are expounding on the upanishads as a religious basis

[Anonymous No.14809067]

How can everything be empty of permanent existence?
If samsara is eternal then not everything is empty of permanence
but if samsara is non-eternal then it will end on its own
thus the path of the Buddha would become unnecessary for liberation from samsara
which we don't accept

[Anonymous No.14809113]

>>14809067
i love how the chinese fall for this

[Anonymous No.14809200]

>>14805732
cringe

[Anonymous No.14809242]

>>14809067
So.. what is it?

[Anonymous No.14809249]

>>14808735
oh I am kekking

[Anonymous No.14809690]

>>14809067
kek, Nagarjuna really btfo himself there

[Anonymous No.14810742]

>>14809067
based

[Anonymous No.14810760]

>>14808663
In a privy manner; privately or secretly.

[Anonymous No.14810794]

>>14809067
Nagarjuna btfo! How will Nagarjuna recover from this? Nagarjuna wins again!

[Anonymous No.14811376]

>>14808784
Why do Westerners feel the need to destroy every single tradition with Fedora, "ACTUALLY...." comments.
Of course Nagarjuna was a Buddhist, in every meaningful sense.

[Anonymous No.14812098]

>>14810794
>>14810742
>>14809690
>t.

[Anonymous No.14812140]

>>14810760
not even your sisters?