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are they just trying to fuck with white people?
Not just white people, but people in general.
That’s Hinduism, not Buddhism.
Buddhism is a refinement of hinduism. Kamasutra is just one part of hinduism. There are philosophies like Advaita which are more complex than entire western theosophies.
Also, Zeus
TIL the Kama Sutra is just an average Netflix show released 140 years too early.
What kinds of Netflix shows are you watching?
You’ll get it after fasting for 20 days straight I’ve heard.
为什么不两?
koans fucking with white people is just a fringe benefit TBH
This guy doesn’t know the one about the pizza guy making him on with everything and then not giving him back and change. So he is angry cuz he didn’t get the anti joke.
Before enlightenment, shitpost daily
After enlightenment, daily shitpost
Buddhism’s “Life sucks? Be nice and die and you’ll get a better one” sucks but it’s still better than “you should be nice to others, but that’s too much to ask so go be as awful as you want and just regret it later and that’ll be fine”. But even that was better than whatever the fuck people are interpreting from religions these days.
I’m not sure if Buddhism is particularly concerned with being nice
What the actual fuck are you talking about? Go educate yourself
Excuse me, if you actually understand the path and believe the point is being “nice”, then why the fuck are you talking to me like that? And if you don’t understand the path, then again, why the fuck are you talking to me like that?
The eightfold path concerns “right” or “wise” or “virtuous” action… but what do those have to do with being “nice”?? Haven’t you heard that light and dark create one another?
Before Christianty it was also a lot of “killing people is just really fucking cool, actually”, which even as an atheist I still admit was worse.
Not that Christians didn’t.
But they made some sort-of-safe havens.
The Spanish missions have entered the chat. They actually sent people back to Spain when they said “yo, maybe Jesus wouldn’t be cool with us enslaving and murdering the locals”.
“Entered the chat” is a stupid phrase.
Ok
Yeah. Personally I don’t see life as being “sacred” or anything and I think people should ultimately be free to choose to end their own if they really want to (provided they also get good support for trying to deal with whatever leads to that choice) - but it kinda scares me that this “sanctity” that is attributed to life is the only thing stopping people from being casually OK with murder.
Perhaps it depends on your definition of sacred. Life is the only mechanism that we know of by which the universe understands itself. If you ascribe to free will, life is the only mechanism able to change the course of events that were initiated by the Big Bang. If you don’t ascribe to free will, then it is the only mechanism able to witness the course of events that were initiated by the Big Bang.
That seems like something worth preserving in large, even if an individual life should be ended for compassion or justice. A life doesn’t have to be sacred, but Life seems pretty sacred to me.
Agreed
Christianity was revolutionary for suggesting that we are all equal in the eyes of the divine and suggesting that you can be forgiven.
Not a relgious scholar, but which religion taught that people are not equal in the eyes of the divine?
I could believe the forgiveness thing maybe. Again, not a scholar.
Many of them as at the time notions of the divine backing whomever was in charge was common. Christianity explicitly states we are all equal in the eyes of God which includes everyone from the unwashed beggar to the emperor of Rome.
Then came the great religion of Arabian desert which made killing people cool again.
Uh… It didn’t?
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Isn’t Buddhism at least partially about a lack of desire? Buddha is enlightened, meaning he has no desires, therefore if you asked him what he wanted on his pizza, he’d be like “Eh, whatever’s fine”
Theres a meditative practice Dr Kanojia (healthygamergg, Harvard-trained psychiatrist with hindu roots) told in one of his video talks:
Always choose your second favorite dish on the menu.
He says your enjoyment will be the exact same, or even better since you become more conscious and dont waste the experience so to speak, like you’d do with the usual ‘ol faithul’ option. Also resonates with me because you learn how to notice your desires. In modern age there’s these lustful/ignorant choices everywhere and more than ever before
Eh, I usually go with whatever is cheapest.
I think it’s more about attachment. We suffer because we get attached to feelings, desire, etc. When we should realize, those, along with most things, are ephemeral, or “not real”. I don’t think it is that Buddhist can’t have desire or are indifferent, but that they strive for lack of attachment. That’s probably a gross oversimplification and, like most religions, there are many different sects.
There’s a difference between wanting something and preferring something. If I want something and can’t have it, I’ll suffer. If I prefer something and can’t have it, that’s fine, I’ll get something else.
Yet another “fuck me” for desiring housing, healthcare, and food.
I am enlightened.
Lack of desire is a metaphysical control of your realm, essentially by not wanting, you cannot truly be hurt.
The physical path is about actualizing your body through routine use. Meditation for example usually had physical exercise as that allows your breathing to take a dominant part in your brain, regardless of thoughts.
One of the coolest ways of mastering the metaphysical realm is through imagination, as some buddhist sects just imagine a holy land.
Anyways, he’d probably dislike a meat supreme.
Never thought that depression meant that I was enlightened.
Teach me your ways.
There are things that cannot be communicated by reading alone.
Zen is said to be based on a “special transmission outside scriptures”
I suspect that actually looking at someone (preferably while you’re together in the same room) lets you understand things better.
yeah a lot of Buddhist proverbs and koans are about getting us to think LESS
The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.
Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren’t meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.
To be honest Tao Te Ching reads like an edgelord fanfic.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding
Could be death metal lyrics
That actually makes perfect sense to me.
Curiosity and imagined reality both arise from lack of complete knowledge. These things are both illusions, which are also a lack of complete knowledge. But these are the path to greater knowledge.
The tao te ching is notorious for its wildly disparate translations and it’s poetic ambiguity. As the saying goes, if you’ve read two translations of the tao te ching you’ve read two different books
Taoism: Just be.
Me: is
Taoism: Not like that
And when they hit you with the real stick it really hurts
I think I can explain. In Buddhism, you have to understand if he didn’t the last into the pizza, but from where I stand it simply is. I hope that helps.
I suddenly feel enlightened.
What
The fool asks ‘What?’
The wise man interjects ‘What’
The enlightened silently nods and thinks ‘WTAF’
If you have to ask, then you don’t know
Induction technique
Realistic yakub is frightening
Peace be upon him 🙏
Beautiful words.
I certainly recognize most of them.
The loneliest goat sees the last sunset last
Monk was passing through. Some villagers saw him pissing on a statue of Buddha so they grabbed their pitchforks and went to pitchfork him. “Show me where Buddha is not, and I shall piss there.” said the monk.
Some Buddha once told me Rebirth was gonna roll me…
