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if you hit yourself with a hammer it's going to hurt

An easy way for idiots to look at every one of life's failures and missteps as a kind of progress. It really means you can't grow without pain, but normies put the cart before the horse, and fit every single hardship into a kind of beneficial experience so that they will remain locked in a samsara of actually vain and empty breakdowns.

>>8442814
wow so cool

>>8442783

I prefer the Brothers Karamazov

This is the higher enlightenment, Anon. It's when you overcome your teenage nihilist outlook of the world in which everyone is only out for themselves. Reading Tolstoy is taking the blue pill: it's realizing the inherent well-meaning and goodness in people, and being overwhelmed with empathy for all. This is the humanitarian path.

Sadly, most 4channers (see /pol/ or /r9k/ for example) never get to this stage, but are stuck in their teenage ways of seeing everything as black and white and not looking for any complexity. They see the world from toddler logic essentially:
>he said a mean thing, he is a mean person

>>8442783
I can never get over the feeling that Tolstoy is searching for some answer he never found. I'm not criticizing anything about his books but that is the feeling I get whenever I read anything from him. A kind of deeply melancholic despair/confusion masked by enormous intelligence and understanding

>>8442750
Why would you want to?

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Just read the Pali canon. Everything else is too steeped in culture to approach without being orientalist.

>>8442750
Heart Sutra and Diamond Sutra are the most widely read primary texts. Red Pine has a great translation of the Heart Sutra. Platform Sutra is also good (IMO).

>>8442664
Spain

Read Proteus on Sandymount Straight, read Benjy in Mississippi, read Quixotes windmills in Toledo, read Pickwick in Surrey and Borges in the Pampas. Read Lowry in Mexico and Nadja in Paris.

>>8442676
Why would I go somewhere just to read? That wasn't the question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpT6ycHoMA

Based John Donne

The Flea

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;
Thou know’st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pampered swells with one blood made of two,
And this, alas, is more than we would do.

Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, nay more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our mariage bed, and marriage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,
And cloistered in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that, self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?
Yet thou triumph’st, and say'st that thou
Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;
’Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:
Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me,
Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.

>>8442476
>What are some "high brow" poems about sex?

Sappho of Lesbos. Most of her writing is literally about being in love and fucking women.

>>8442459
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpT6ycHoMA

We needed it to avoid degeneration of culture but that was ruined by relativists

>>8442469
Then fixed again by Plato
but once again destroyed by Millenials, though this spread of relativist cancer has been a recurring theme ever since Bloom wrote his Closing of the American Mind

Go see a shrink, psycho.
Reading books won't cure you.

this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpT6ycHoMA

>>8442448
There are billions of subhuman normies in this world who don't hate themselves

Why do people like us should, my good man?

>>8442418
near impossible in terms of what you will get out of it. Though The Republic and Thus Spoke are easier to grasp than say Being and Time or Phenomenology of Spirit. Luckily there is a plethora of secondary literature or lectures that are easily obtainable through the internet.

The chances of you missing more than at least 50% of the info is quite high

>>8442492
This is good insight. Is there a chart or a website that will help guide me through the appropriate supplementary material, so I don't have to keep asking people?

>>8442492

>near impossible in terms of what you will get out of it.

Spoken like a true pleb.

Think about it. Every reputable book was at one point read by those without any supplementary material, some of whom no doubt went on to write the supplementary material you plebs rely on.

its a book

>>8442445
redpill me more

>>8442460
good book?

>>8442381
>he thinks Don Quixote is about being funny

leave this board

>>8442385
>he doesn't think humour is the essence of being

The tutor story was funny but the whole thing is far too fragmented to be considered better than anything. There's only like two complete chapters. Not worth it desu.

>>8442366
Read the Dhammapadda.

>>8442366
read about actual buddhism, not an western appropriation of it

>>8442316
Imagination and intelligence are not correlated.

Look at the amount of devianart fanfiction. It's all pretty imaginative, but at the same time autistic and poorly written.

Walter Mitty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger

Maybe he was just unedeucated, rather than unintelligent

>>8442288
>legend

>>8442294
How I met your mother was huge

i agree what a dumbass

>>8442240
your mother's diary

>>8442240
My diary desu

Not whole books but several classical authors have parts where they state buttsex is pretty bad and instead intercrural is the way to go. Also true love can only exist between men and women are only to be used to produce children for the city state, preferably while staying locked inside the house.

Take your meds.

>>8442235
By shitposting on 4chan.

What was your question again?

>>8442235
Does herbal tea help?