{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

After Schopenhauer, I got into Cioran. 

I also became interested in Husserl and Merleu-Ponty and even some of the French philosophers like Deleuze and Guattari (their writings on skizoanalysis - that's where I read about Artaud)

As for Schopenhauer's influences, Berkeley, Hume, and possibly Descartes.  The Upanishads may be especially helpful as I think The World as Will and Representation may attempt to relay to the West the kernel of what The Upanishads attempts to pass down through the ages.

I have yet to fully explore Kant and Plato, although I have read Kant in my twenties.  As I said, I am now rereading Prolegomena by Kant since I found his writing very clear in that work.

My readings of Korzybski's Science and Sanity have long since prejudiced me against Aristotle, as well as an interest in Fuzzy Logic which is non-aristotlean logic, and can even be described as buddhistic logic where something can be both A and Not-A ... 0.5A ...

I do not want to distract you with General Semantics, but I did a great deal of reading of such material ... You have to follow your own bliss.

I remember reading parts of the Puranas, but with only a shallow grasp.  I wanted to study this in the University, but I had decided to take Multivariable Calculus (as an elective!) instead.

Have you ever heard of anyone else in the history of formal education choosing "Multivariable Calculus" as an elective?

It was not required for "Computer Science" degree.

How could I resist?

One day I may get back to the authors of this Puranas.

Maybe there will be some kind of balance, where, in exchange for a little guidance in mathematics, you can share with me your discoveries of just what appealed to Schopenhauer in those texts.

As always, I do not take our correspondence for granted.

You should be less concerned with the philosophers I have read, and focus on what you are drawn to.

Remember, my life contains huge gaps of oblivion.

For kicks I find myself reading Candide by Voltaire.