so yes, this helped my veredict is, "this is life-denying" good reads though, thank you
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(also, apologies for the slightly snappy tone, unless i'm reading this VERY wrong, 'enlightenment' really just sounds like the ultimate blasphemy against life, so consider me a priest clutching his pearls at a satanic ritual)
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why ultimate blasphemy against life? why abomination?
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having a monkey mind and being in constant war with it is to be human to deny the monkey mind is to deny being human therefore, weirdly life-denying, without the christianism (the religious terms are a play on neitzsche's gospel tone in zaratustra)https://twitter.com/erin_nerung/status/1141219724866531328 …
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but! theres a lot of poking that can be done to this evaluation, even from a nietzschean perspective (you could say the immediacy of enlightenment is giving oneself to the dionysiac of the body, lots of ways to go about this)
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I agree that mainstream Buddhist conceptions of enlightenment are life-hating and should be rejected. There are alternatives fwiw: https://vividness.live/2013/10/24/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview/ …pic.twitter.com/hAVaBfTX53
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And also: https://vividness.live/2012/09/13/epistemology-and-enlightenment/ …pic.twitter.com/uOEaAqsNfN
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