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i wanna learn more about buddhism, what do i read
>>24574217 (OP)On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
By Allan Watts
that's where i started
Read A Still Forest Pool and meditate 500 hours
Dhammapada is probably the first book you should start with if you know literally nothing about Buddhism or the Dharma. Its the oldest of the Pali Canon texts and is used in some form in virtually all schools of Buddhism
After that the Lotus Sutra and Diamond Sutra are valuable if you want to learn more about Mahayana
The best book is Foundations of Buddhism by Rupert Gethin
Just fast foward to modern times and read the distillation of the useful parts of Oriental personal-sovereignty practice.
>>24574321I got bored of this too quickly. Might red attempt later
>>24574947How can you get bored of a book with ideas on religions of the world? Don't you ever contemplate on their meaning to find perspectives you currently fail in seeing?
>>24574217 (OP)Monkey Magic (Tv series, dub, bad) [UK] 1980s
>>24574217 (OP)>You (((want)))to learn more....There, your suffering has begun.
>>24575208Paradoxes such as these are exactly why dhamma cannot be pursued through sign and concept. Only sitting