![]() ![]() However, the argument will be made that because Camus did not have the benefit of meditation, he was unable to abide there. Nevertheless, this thesis will argue that in Camus' early essays, Noces, he seems to have transcended this dualistic tension created by perception and to have rested, at least for a brief moment, in nonduality. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises. If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. This thesis makes the claim that Albert Camus' philosophy is based on a premature conclusion about the nature of reality that is drawn from a limited perceptual strategy. I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain One always finds ones burden again. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. Through meditation the individual attains a technique that allows him/her to see through the illusion created by dualistic perception and experience the truth of an ultimately loving nondual universe hence, the enlightened individual no longer identifies with, clings to, or is preoccupied with their private desires, the universe becomes completely fulfilling and "existential anxiety" comes to an end. According to the Buddha, the universe is one loving nondual consciousness and the "illusion" of division is in fact a creation of an elaborate dichotomizing perceptual process. Based upon the Buddha's "Four Noble Truths" the claim will be made that Camus' "three certainties of existence" (one, the human desire for happiness, lucidity, unity and eternal life two, the universe's inability to fulfil that desire and three, the "absurdity" and "existential anxiety" that arises from the confrontation between desire and reality) are fundamentally erroneous. Essentially, Camus' existentialism will be compared and contrasted to the Buddha's teaching of Enlightenment. This thesis is an evaluation of Albert Camus' essay The Myth of Sisyphus from the point of view of Buddhism. ![]()
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