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Schopenhauer (Brahman = World-will (The world as representation: "…
Schopenhauer
Brahman = World-will
The world as representation: "Maya"
Life as purification by pain
We enter the world guilty
We need to get rid of ego and attachment
Evil can never be dispelled from our psyche
Thus, any evil nullifies all good
For thousands living in happiness and joy doesn't take away the one who lives in agony
Callback to Dostoyevsky here
Original Sin
We are bad from birth
Pessimism
We are living in the worst possible world
Teetering on the edge of horror and nonexistence
If the world were worse it would cease to exist
Nature doesn't care for the individual
It is, therefore, cruel
Collective battleground of tormented souls
Autophagey
An eating of ourselves
Pendulum
We spend our lives as a pendulum, swinging between thirst and desire to moments of brief satiation, then back to misery
The only escape is a complete inversion in our nature
We want to end our suffering through the material world
This is the cause of our suffering
Therefore it is not possible
Tragic Wisdom
Better to have not existed or to end existence for an end to suffering
Inborn error where we assume that we ought to be happy rather than wretched little creatures writhing in pain
The correction to this error is through purification achieved through pain
