Borges' Buddhist Influences? Hey guys, I recently started…
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Borges' Buddhist Influences?
Hey guys, I recently started reading Borges after many recommendations. After reading Funes and Tlon, I can't help but think that Borges is heavily influenced by Buddhist philosophy? In Funes, the curse of attention to details reveals the constant flux of the universe and the stable notion of a noun doesn't make any sense, similar to Buddhist emphasis on impermenance. Tlon's focus on idealism seems very Buddhist. The notion of existence being reducible to one's current mental state and with the past/future merely existing in the abstract. The idea that causality seeks to exist because there is only the current moment, and the use of language that denotes a continues process rather than a single noun, and the notion of a single entity, or the mind-at-large via consciousness all seems so Buddhist that I'm sure there's some influence?
Apologies to the Borges devotees, I have literally no context of the author so sorry if all of this may seem painfully obvious.
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Hey guys, I recently started reading Borges after many recommendations. After reading Funes and Tlon, I can't help but think that Borges is heavily influenced by Buddhist philosophy? In Funes, the curse of attention to details reveals the constant flux of the universe and the stable notion of a noun doesn't make any sense, similar to Buddhist emphasis on impermenance. Tlon's focus on idealism seems very Buddhist. The notion of existence being reducible to one's current mental state and with the past/future merely existing in the abstract. The idea that causality seeks to exist because there is only the current moment, and the use of language that denotes a continues process rather than a single noun, and the notion of a single entity, or the mind-at-large via consciousness all seems so Buddhist that I'm sure there's some influence?
Apologies to the Borges devotees, I have literally no context of the author so sorry if all of this may seem painfully obvious.
#entertainment
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