/lit/ - Literature

>>23316627
I was reading the article on Hakuin and this came up
>“Of all the sages and holy monks since the time of the Buddha Krakucchanda, those lacking bodhicitta have all fallen into the realm of the demons.”

Why? When this stuff comes up in christianity it feels normal because it's built from the ground up on morals. When ethics is stressed in buddhism it feels off. Karma is basically a metaphysical principle but it's also a "really deep" one, meaning (I guess) even if you have an awakening & experience no-thought or no-self, you won't really understand karma because it's on an extremely deep level of insight similar to the whole rebirth process, like in the Tibetan book of the dead where you see the souls lining up for reincarnation. And it feels dubious for someone to say this stuff because how would you know about the demons?

I don't want to believe anything unless I can see it for myself, or deduce it on my own. Maybe the truth is Buddhism just requires you to accept a lot of unprovable stuff. Still, if that's so, I wish people wouldn't pitch it as a "scientific" or experiential religion. If karma is just something we have to accept on faith then say so from the start

>>21597274
Does it really count as true power when you're locked into one course of action at all times? i.e. feeding the market beast. Empires of old had some degree of autonomy, they could prioritize any number of vectors with their power. Modern america literally can't, we saw this when neo-liberalism gutted public institutions in service of capital.

Competition is essentially the enemy of freedom.

(1) Arr-der or (2) Arr-door?
I'm thinking 2.

>18707093
>When that April with with his showers (???)
>The drought of March has pierced to the root
>And bathed every vine in (???) liquor
>Of which virtue engendered is the flour;
>When Zephyrus (???) with his sweet breath
>Has inspired in every hold (?) and heath
>The tender crops, and the young sun(???)
>Has in the ram his half (???) (???)
>And small fowls make melody
>That sleep all the night with open (??? eye maybe)
>(so pricks them Nature in their courages(?))
>Then long folk to go on pilgrimages.
>And palmers* for to seek strange strands(???)
>To (???) (???), (???) in sundry lands;
>And specially from every shire's end
>of England to Canterbury they went.
>The holy blissful martyr for to seek,
>That has them hoped when that they were seek (? this entire sentence)
* I happen to know this one. A palmer is another word for pilgrim, especially one who has gone to the holy land (they would bring back palm leaves).
(?) indicates uncertainty.
(???) is a word which is untranslatedable for me.

>>18137826
> Let’s all act like the jewis-uh I mean pomo marxist elites are done for.
Are you trying to insinuate that Alan Sokal is an anti-Semite and is that supposed to be a bad thing?

>>18130281
I don't know bro...should OP really be taking mental health advice from an attention-whoring tyranny? probably not imho.

>>18125167
>>18125195
I'm starting to think religion isn't a factor in all of this bros

>>17903986
What do you mean?
>>17903976
Meme book

Why do you think the Ancient Mariner shot the ALBATROSS?

What accent do I read Chaucer in?

>>14556013
why? they pretty clearly represent the values of two diametrically opposed systems

What stops slush readers from “rejecting” a piece and then stealing its ideas?
Not necessarily the whole thing verbatim, since that could lead to a lawsuit. But at least the gist, with the skeleton of some of its more distinctive elements? Surely that happens.

>>11055173
>Please tell me why I should put effort into correcting someone's mistake when the point gets across easily with the method I employed?
>If it can be so easily understood, then there is no reason to put any more effort, especially if the only drawback is someone being artificially offended.
Missing the entire point, anon.

>>10590655
>(((Mephistopheles)))

>>10196301
>complex as fuck Fantasy
>malazan