Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:41:15 PM No.24479917
What philosophies would I need to read to be like Sasuke Uchiha?
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:45:37 PM No.24479932
>>24479917 (OP)
To develop a worldview like Sasuke Uchiha’s, you’d want to explore philosophies centered on pain, justice, revenge, isolation, and redemption. Here’s a reading path:
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1. Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Beyond Good and Evil
• Explores power, will, vengeance, and transcending conventional morality—Sasuke’s early arc in a nutshell.
2. Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
• Pessimism and suffering as inherent to existence; echoes Sasuke’s internal anguish and detachment.
3. Machiavelli – The Prince
• Cold strategy, pragmatism, and leadership through fear—key to Sasuke’s later ideology when he seeks to reshape the shinobi world.
4. Buddhist thought – esp. Zen or Mahayana
• Themes of detachment, the illusory self, and karmic cycles align with his eventual path toward peace and understanding.
5. Stoicism – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Self-control, endurance, and internal strength in the face of hardship—a balance to Sasuke’s more destructive impulses.
To develop a worldview like Sasuke Uchiha’s, you’d want to explore philosophies centered on pain, justice, revenge, isolation, and redemption. Here’s a reading path:
⸻
1. Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Beyond Good and Evil
• Explores power, will, vengeance, and transcending conventional morality—Sasuke’s early arc in a nutshell.
2. Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
• Pessimism and suffering as inherent to existence; echoes Sasuke’s internal anguish and detachment.
3. Machiavelli – The Prince
• Cold strategy, pragmatism, and leadership through fear—key to Sasuke’s later ideology when he seeks to reshape the shinobi world.
4. Buddhist thought – esp. Zen or Mahayana
• Themes of detachment, the illusory self, and karmic cycles align with his eventual path toward peace and understanding.
5. Stoicism – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Self-control, endurance, and internal strength in the face of hardship—a balance to Sasuke’s more destructive impulses.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:49:44 PM No.24479945
Watching cartoons is for small children.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:51:49 PM No.24479954
>>24479917 (OP)
Read? No, that won't work. You just need to make the small sacrifice of your entire bloodline and you're set.
Read? No, that won't work. You just need to make the small sacrifice of your entire bloodline and you're set.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:57:46 PM No.24479970
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:58:35 PM No.24479973
>>24479945
No this is much more juvenile
No this is much more juvenile
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:59:37 PM No.24479979
>>24479932
I'll never understand the psychology of people who pop 4chan thread queries into chatgpt.
I'll never understand the psychology of people who pop 4chan thread queries into chatgpt.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 10:01:59 PM No.24479988
>>24479970
1. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
A foundational and poetic classic—but still deep. Great intro to Zen attitudes and practice.
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2. Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama
Practical and philosophical, focused on zazen (seated meditation). Uchiyama goes into the subtleties of practice and mind.
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3. The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau
Mixes real-life Zen practice, enlightenment experiences, and rigorous instruction. Deep but accessible.
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4. The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (translated by John Blofeld)
A key source from Chinese Chan (Zen’s origin). Direct, fierce, uncompromising. Essential for understanding non-duality in Zen.
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5. Zen Training by Katsuki Sekida
Goes deeply into the psychology, mechanics, and stages of zazen. Scholarly and experiential.
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Would you prefer a more academic-historical track (e.g. D.T. Suzuki, Heine, Dumoulin) or practical-mystical (more monastic tone)? I can recommend more based on that.
1. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
A foundational and poetic classic—but still deep. Great intro to Zen attitudes and practice.
⸻
2. Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama
Practical and philosophical, focused on zazen (seated meditation). Uchiyama goes into the subtleties of practice and mind.
⸻
3. The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau
Mixes real-life Zen practice, enlightenment experiences, and rigorous instruction. Deep but accessible.
⸻
4. The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (translated by John Blofeld)
A key source from Chinese Chan (Zen’s origin). Direct, fierce, uncompromising. Essential for understanding non-duality in Zen.
⸻
5. Zen Training by Katsuki Sekida
Goes deeply into the psychology, mechanics, and stages of zazen. Scholarly and experiential.
⸻
Would you prefer a more academic-historical track (e.g. D.T. Suzuki, Heine, Dumoulin) or practical-mystical (more monastic tone)? I can recommend more based on that.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 10:24:58 PM No.24480069
>>24479932
thanks chat gpt
thanks chat gpt
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 11:51:31 PM No.24480277
>>24479970
Gateless Gate
Gateless Gate
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:18:53 AM No.24480737
>>24479932
Sasuke read all THAT?!?!?!
Sasuke read all THAT?!?!?!
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:28:16 AM No.24480747
>>24479917 (OP)
You just need to have your whole family killed when you were a child
You just need to have your whole family killed when you were a child