What are the best books to get started with Eastern Philosophy?

What are the best books to get started with Eastern Philosophy?

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You must commence with the chinese

start with the sikhs

Initiate with the Indians

Jump on the japs

Kek with the Koreans

Begin with the Buddha

None of them. The best thing you could do is join a proper Qigong or Yoga (Hatha or Kundalini) class. Easterners denounce empty language games and laborious intellectual gymnastics: their philosophies, by and large, put emphasis on feeling.

So embark with emotions?

This is what they used in my intro to chinese philosophy class.

No, they denounce emotions too. Feeling is quite something else.

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Found with the feelings

This. It might be good to also read the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali once you find a good class, though. That you can understand what yoga is supposed to be and won't fall into the trap of treating it as fancy stretching.

Linger with the Lemurians

>2017
>tfw not hopping on homo erectus

This.

Chinese: A Beginner's Course
Sanskrit For Beginners

Translation are for plebs

Can't really help you, but I really hope I get that festival skin for d.va.

>muh feels


literally proof to not partake in this garbage

The Tao Te King

bump.

Dude, just read Siddhartha, lol, and like pretend, lmao.

tao te ching.

hinduism and buddhism are meme philosophies.

Tear it up with the Tao!
Light up with the Lanka!
Blast off with the Bhagahad Vida
Cheese with the Chinese
Injure ignorance with the Indians

Or just watch a bunch of Allen Watts, then read the Diamond Sutra, then branch out

chinese-toa de jing, the way of chung zu,
india- the upanishads, yoga sutra, bhagavad gita, dhamapada
japan- zen flesh,zen bones, gatless gate, Shōbōgenzō, budhism plan and simple, the art of just sitting

tao is the quitisential meme philosphy, "dude wuh wey lmao"

what is the best english translation of the tao te ching?

here you go mate

Upanishads, Daodejing, Zhuangzi

Honestly my favourite book of all time. It's an absolute masterpiece. A very serious subject but the author doesn't take himself so seriously, like basically every other work in this space. Full of wit, humour and humanity. I love it.

sun tzu+

>the tao te ching

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and the following

Sun tzu is garbage. Please don't put it next to these works.

thanks man

Start with Siddhartha

journey to the west

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-Tsit Chan

Aurobindo is worth reading.

Hop on with the Hindus

The Ronin