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Hinduism is interesting. Don't know too much about it but this was an interesting video I saw a few days ago.
https://youtu.be/nBQTm7m7u8g
I think it's very rewarding to compare different religions, philosophies etc to each other. A lot of times the understanding of one of them is deepened when it's compared to others, or just one other religion etc.
This is a decent book more in the Western tradition.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm
The first few chapters go into the distinction between what is perceived and the thing itself etc, which I think is a very important thing to learn about. Here's a fun clip from a movie which deals with that.
https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck
here's another video about it
https://youtu.be/0drT_L4G8w8&t=135
>In several dialogues, most notably the Republic, Socrates inverts the common man's intuition about what is knowable and what is real. While most people take the objects of their senses to be real if anything is, Socrates is contemptuous of people who think that something has to be graspable in the hands to be real. In the Theaetetus, he says such people are "eu a-mousoi", an expression that means literally, "happily without the muses" (Theaetetus 156a). In other words, such people live without the divine inspiration that gives him, and people like him, access to higher insights about reality. Socrates's idea that reality is unavailable to those who use their senses is what puts him at odds with the common man, and with common sense. Socrates says that he who sees with his eyes is blind.