I wish I was Schopenhauer. No hopes, no dreams, just shove shove.
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You should read his essay On the Indestructability of Our Essential Being by Death
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It's my understanding that he believed in something like the Platonic eternal monad, right? A curious fascination of 18th century Germans.
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He was more in harmony with the Upanishads. That particular essay is most fascinating, in my humble opinion, because he explains it in a more Westernized manner.
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I've always had a deep fascination with the Vedas and the Upanishads. I will have to read this essay immediately, thank you for the pointer!
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One can never read enough Schopenhauer. In the third volume of his The World as Will and Representation he gets into Vedic concepts, as well.