Abandon pride and the empty chase of physical display. Fast, meditate, and walk the road toward true enlightenment.
>>76570620Buddhism teaches a moderate approach to spiritual practices, it doesn't advocate for people starving themselves or practicing crazy mortification like Hinduism does
>Abandon pride and the empty chase of physical displ-ACK
>>76570620every time I tried meditating the only thing I got is bored and backpain.no enlightmen for me
>>76570692ranton basically completely exposed the shaolin temple and how none of them know anything about buddhism and just end up there because their family is poor and wants their son to learn kung fu to become a teacher to other kids so that the cycle continues. they all leave the temple frequently to go to internet cafes to play league of legends and fuck prostitutes and shit. i believe the abbot was recently caught having fathered like 50 gorillion kids
>>76570962>I got is boredthat's the point. you gotta learn to sit with that feeling
>>76571090those are tibetan buddhist robes
>>76571263backpain makes sure I won't
>>76570620why should i trust this face?
>>76570620enlightenment is a scam. You can't become einstein levels of wisdom simply by breathing
>>76571776You think Einstein is enlightened?
>>76571519shaved head = no vanity
>>76571974no vanity would be to just let it grow. a better example is the orthodox monk
>>76570620> be monk> has a place to live for free> also free food> preaching people about enlightenment
>>76570620Buddhism is a fairly low energy religion. The great spiritual truth of Buddhism is non-self, inaction, the middle path, and that's pretty neato until it isn't anymore. Myanmar has the radical conclusion of this where a decent chunk of the population is composed of Monks & Priests effectively doing nothing while being supported by those unordained individuals who do work... Creating a kind of awkward situation where anyone doing anything of material value is effectively compromising their spirituality.Again, Buddhism casts shade on farmers, merchants, tradespeople, etc. It doesn't say these people will go to hell, but it does spend enough time saying they're wasting their lives and if they were "really" good they'd stop all that nonsense. Buddhism in other parts of Asia have specifically made efforts to doctor that out as much as possible by assimilating folk gods WITH JOBS.
>>76572118Buddhism is not about preservation and understanding.Enlightenment (or, the state of being fully awake) is defined as having a completely empty head, your mind being an endless void.A person who has attained the goal Nibbana is thus indescribable because they have abandoned all things by which they could be described". The Suttas themselves describe the liberated mind as 'untraceable' or as 'consciousness without feature', making no distinction between the mind of a liberated being that is alive and the mind of one that is no longer alive.Enlightenment is a destructive process. Ithas nothing to do with becoming better, preservation or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.Achieving the state Enlightenment causes the individual to quite literally lose any sense of self, it's hard to even call someone who has become Enlightened an actual individual.Buddhism calls internal dialog “Chattering Monkey” and tells us that silencing this voice is the first step on the path to enlightenment (nirvana).
>>76572128Buddha never taught Pure Land Buddhism. Prior to the development of Pure Land Buddhism, the only way to enlightenment lay through an arduous path of study and practice that was out of reach for most people.The Mahāyāna scriptures were composed in a variety of disparate social and religious environments over the course of several centuries, diverge widely from each other in content and outlook, and were in many cases meant to stand as individual works representing rivals to the entire Hīnayāna corpus.The Ekottara-agama also contains various unique passages on buddhānusmṛti and states that buddhānusmṛti can lead to the unconditioned, nirvana, as well as magic power.Most of Asia adopted Mahāyāna Buddhism and its various branches which doesn't forbid having jobs or privilege monks unlike Theravada and liked its concepts of being reincarnated in a pure land Buddha field. Which is primarily focused on achieving rebirth in a Buddha's "pure land" or buddha-field, which generally speaking is a Buddha's field of influence. Buddha-fields are considered to be superior places to spiritually train for full Buddhahood, since a Buddha has compassionately "purified" it for this purpose and since in these realms, one can meet a Buddha face to face and study under them.Many Mahayana Buddhists strive to be reborn in such a place.Again Buddha never taught this.Buddhism is a mind virus that tries to convert lazy people to anti-intellectualism. Its concept of "enlightenment" is nothing more than striving to weaken one's mind until only the most superficial kind of consciousness remains. I think it's probably even worse than suicide.It's pretty easy to get into it because it mostly doesn't make any sense, you just have to "contemplate" supposed paradoxes, which are in fact simple puns.
>>76572135Hindus like Kumarila Bhatta and Shankaracharya refuted all the arguments of Buddhists and vanquished it from India, Buddhists lost the debate in India which is why it's a Hindu country.Buddhists have never answered Adi Shankara arguments.the Buddhist historian Taranatha himself admits that Kumarila Bhatta defeated a bunch of Buddhists in debatesKumārila is also credited with the logical formulation of the Mimamsic belief that the Vedas are unauthored (apauruṣeyā). In particular, his defence against medieval Buddhist positions on Vedic rituals is noteworthy. This contributed to the decline of Buddhism in India, because his lifetime coincides with the period in which Buddhism began to decline. Indeed, his dialectical success against Buddhists is confirmed by Buddhist historian Taranatha, who reports that Kumārila defeated disciples of Buddhapālita, Bhāviveka, Dharmadasa, Dignāga and others.
>>76571509Lay down
>>76572128this sounds nothing like what i have read about buddhism. but i've only read a few books from the same author lol
>>76572243Buddhism tells you to be friends with monsters and demonshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkJVvtDIOA8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SctUKtLn8RAJapanese Buddhism was extreme.Sōhei were warrior monks much like Crusaders and had punishments like 1 trillion years in hell for not having a baby and denying a man a son.Nishiari who was among the leaders of the charge to sign on to the Meiji governments national evangelization program, and who spent years traveling the country with that program teaching not even Zen orthodoxy but a State-mandated ideology of the subservience of Zen to the Emperor, and the Buddhist truth of reverence for the imperial nation. Nishiari whose Japanese coreligionists in Korea and elsewhere were also doing at the time eagerly aided the governments colonization efforts by pioneering Soto Zen in the newest claimed reaches of the Japanese empire.It was a Japanese state Buddhist that came up with Hakkō ichiu.That it was Japan's destiny to rule the world.
>>76570620Thanks budda dude, but I will stick with the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and God. Take care dude and get a job.>cope, seething and gnashing of teeth incoming.
>>76572374Based and Truthpilled
>>76572273are the buddhism posters on 4chan white americans or east asians?This always confuses me
>>76573141Most likely white people.Goes like thisSri Lankan and Thailander etc westernize Buddhism in response to Protestant missionariesLater gets picked up by WestBuddhists missionaries later make it more palatable to the west new age type by removing dogmatic elements. it is watered down by rich white suburbanites who don't know jack("Reincarnation is a metaphor, Buddhism is not a religion/a peaceful religion).
>>76573141im chinese
>>76572226so taking a nap counts as meditation?
Is there a religion that makes me worship beautiful bodies and muscles?
>>76575211ur neurobiology
I spoke to Buddhist once. I can’t remember exactly what denomination he was but he tried to explain Buddhism to me and it just seemed fundamentally flawed. Basically, he said they believe in 3 things:1) Karma. You do something good, something good will happen to you later down the line. You do something, and something bad will happen to you later. But the thing is, you don’t know when your reward or punishment will occur. It can happen right away, in a week, in 10 years, or in 10 lifetimes. The idea is that you’re incentivised to do more food, but there’s a problem, because the other two beliefs don’t mesh well karma.2) the second belief is they every time you die, you are reincarnated. You could be reincarnated as a different animal entirely, you don’t necessarily have to be reincarnated as a human.3) they do not believe in the concept of a soul or in ‘conciousness’. What I mean by that is, even though you die and you reincarnate, it’s not as if you closed your eyes and then opened up and now you’re in a new body. No. You’re simply a new entity, from top to bottom. You have no memory of your prior life, and no soul to link your lifetimes. The problem with this is, if reincarnation works this way, then what’s the point of karma? I can literally live a miserable life of suffering and have absolutely no idea why, because I have no recollection of my last lives and what I did wrong. How can I learn from my actions if when I’m reincarnated I become an entirely new being with a seperate consciousness, and rewards/punishments for past deeds seemingly occur at random?Anyway, what I told him this he got mad at me.
>>76575307on 3, karma is not supposed to teach you. it's a mindless, never-ending cycle of pain. it's literally why people wanna escape samsara.
>>76575307The low tier introduction to most religions tend to be dumb, because they are more interested in gaining followers than teaching the subtleties of the religion. Appealing to the lowest common denominator appeals to the masses, and so the first religious information you come across will tend to be at a low level. There is amazing stuff to discover in each major religion, but you have to do a deep search yourself, otherwise you will have a hive of midwits ego-splaining it to you. >1) Karma. Buddhists butchered this concept from Hindu scriptures where karma was originally concieved of by hindu astrologer priests, who had devised many remedies to aleviate karmas shown in the natal chart. Buddhism stripped away this explanation, and tried to strip away the influence of God and heaven on mankind, and this is why many of the explanations are non-sensical, because they are appealing to material atheists. (2) Reincarnation:You can also spend time in heaven planes or hell planes. You don't only go to this heavy material world of limitations. (3) Soul:All this negation of soul/consciousness/life stuff is by theravadan midwits who lack the refined intellect to understand that original buddhist scriptures actually do allow for these concepts. There is a hindu philosophical concept called "neti neti", where aspects of God are described not by what they are, but by what they are not. This does not mean God or the soul doesn't exist, its just a philosophical tool, that depressed atheistic midwits misinterpret to affirm their lack of belief in anything spiritual. The late-stages of Buddhism actually return to Hinduism, as is the case with Tibetan tantrism, and Shingon Buddhism methods of practice being very similar to those prescribed in the vedas. Many of the buddhas are actually hindu gods.
