/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6187446]

Does anyone know of books on Buddhism? Any school is fine tbh, feel like practicing some decadent life-denying.

[Anonymous No.6187452]

>>6187446
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/damapada.pdf

[Anonymous No.6187457]

>>6187452
Thanks amigo

[Anonymous No.6187537]

>>6187446
I thought it was about life-accapting

[Anonymous No.6187549]

>>6187446
Start with The Foundations of Buddhism. Then come back and ask again.

Like >>6187537 said, it's about seeing life as it is and to guide yourself towards the best way of life, not affirming or denying life based on delusional misconceptions.

[Anonymous No.6188560]

Zen is a lot more interesting than Buddhism

[Anonymous No.6188582]

>>6187446
I Ching
Tao Te Thing
The Way of Life
The Way of Zen
Zen for Americans
The Secret of the Golden Flower

[Anonymous No.6188597]

>>6188582
>I Ching

Now that's just racist.

[Anonymous No.6188600]

>>6188582
tao te ching*

[Anonymous No.6188870]

>>6188560
Zen is Buddhism. And most material that you will find about Zen in English has been written by people who did not actually grasp anything substantial about the teaching.
For a picture of actual Zen, see Collected Works of Chinul.

[Anonymous No.6189541]

In the Buddhas Words by Bhikku Bodhi

and

What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

[Anonymous No.6189600]

buddhism is g4y
stoicism is shit

even women can handle life without hiding from it

[Anonymous No.6189624]

>>6187446

I don't know a lot about Buddhism, but I believe the Middle Path refers in part to eschewing the life-denying beliefs of Buddhism's ascetic progenitors.

[Anonymous No.6189687]

To the despisers of the body will I speak my word. I wish them neither to learn afresh, nor teach anew, but only to bid farewell to their own bodies,—and thus be dumb.
"Body am I, and soul"—so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
But the awakened one, the knowing one, saith: "Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body."
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
An instrument of thy body is also thy little sagacity, my brother, which thou callest "spirit"—a little instrument and plaything of thy big sagacity.
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing—in which thou art unwilling to believe—is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.
Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
Ever hearkeneth the Self, and seeketh; it compareth, mastereth, conquereth, and destroyeth. It ruleth, and is also the ego's ruler.
Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body.
There is more sagacity in thy body than in thy best wisdom. And who then knoweth why thy body requireth just thy best wisdom?
Thy Self laugheth at thine ego, and its proud prancings. "What are these prancings and flights of thought unto me?" it saith to itself. "A by-way to my purpose. I am the leading-string of the ego, and the prompter of its notions."
The Self saith unto the ego: "Feel pain!" And thereupon it suffereth, and thinketh how it may put an end thereto—and for that very purpose it is meant to think.

[Anonymous No.6189688]

>>6188582
>I Ching
>Tao Te Ching
>Buddhist
Are you feeling okay?

[Anonymous No.6189696]

>>6189687
cont.

The Self saith unto the ego: "Feel pleasure!" Thereupon it rejoiceth, and thinketh how it may ofttimes rejoice—and for that very purpose it is meant to think.
To the despisers of the body will I speak a word. That they despise is caused by their esteem. What is it that created esteeming and despising and worth and will?
The creating Self created for itself esteeming and despising, it created for itself joy and woe. The creating body created for itself spirit, as a hand to its will.
Even in your folly and despising ye each serve your Self, ye despisers of the body. I tell you, your very Self wanteth to die, and turneth away from life.
No longer can your Self do that which it desireth most:—create beyond itself. That is what it desireth most; that is all its fervour.
But it is now too late to do so:—so your Self wisheth to succumb, ye despisers of the body.
To succumb—so wisheth your Self; and therefore have ye become despisers of the body. For ye can no longer create beyond yourselves.
And therefore are ye now angry with life and with the earth. And unconscious envy is in the sidelong look of your contempt.
I go not your way, ye despisers of the body! Ye are no bridges for me to the Superman!—
Thus spake Zarathustra.

[Anonymous No.6189777]

>>6189600
>>6189600
do you mean shit or the shit

[Anonymous No.6189901]

>>6189600
>without hiding from it

Confirmed for knowing nothing about Buddhism

[Anonymous No.6190251]

hajime nakamura - gotama buddha (biography)

a.k warder - indian buddhism

Baruah, Bibhuti - Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism

Cambridge University Press Selfless Persons, Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism (1982)

Cambridge University Press Selfless Persons, Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism (1982)

Choong Mun-keat - The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism (2000)

Conze, Edward - Buddhist Thought in India, Three Phases of Buddhist Philosophy (1983)

Endo, Toshichi - Buddha in Theravada Buddhism, A Study of the Concept of Buddha in the Pali Commentaries 2nd (2002)

Dutt, Nalinaksha - Early Monastic Buddhism Vol. 1 (1941)

Hirakawa, Akira - A History of Indian Buddhism, From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana (1990)

Narain, Harsh - Madhyamika Mind


Sasaki, Genjun H. - Linguistic Approach to Buddhist Thought (1986)

Stcherbatsky, Th. - The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana (1977)

Varma, Vishwanath Prasad - Early Buddhism and Its Origins (1973)

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