Nirvana buddista schopenhauer biography

In a particularly harrowing passage from his 1819 discourse The World as Will and Representation, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cites an account from one of botanist and geologist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s expeditions to the Indonesian island of Java.

“Junghuhn,” Schopenhauer writes, “saw an immense field entirely covered with skeletons, and took it to be a battlefield.

However, they were nothing but skeletons of large turtles, five feet long, three feet broad, and of equal height. These turtles come this way from the sea, in order to lay their eggs, and are then seized by wild dogs (Canis rutilans); with their united strength, these dogs lay them on their backs, tear open their lower armor, the small scales of the belly, and devour them alive.

But then a tiger often pounces on the dogs.

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Now all this misery is repeated thousands and thousands of times, year in, year out. For this then, are these turtles born. For what offense must they suff