You too are clearly a westerner if you felt the need to post publicly to assert your own religion as being superior than that to others. It is the Western world’s fault for twisting the religions that passed through their continent to what it is today.

That's what I've been saying, Buddhism doesn’t just teach salvation; it teaches how to perceive reality without the filters of ego and duality.

>>18025839
What about apophatic Christianity (Meister Eckhart, Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross, etc.)?

>>18025404
If Buddhism is so great then what is stopping you from joining a local temple?

>>18025404
>cannot eat meat
>have to shave your head
>women who cannot give birth go to the hells
>you can be reborn as a worm, a slug, or any vermin on earth for having bad karma
>radical asceticism where having many possessions is frowned on
>Dali Llama is an actual pedophile who tongues little boys
>all books are in Sanskrit
Yeah, no. Buddhism is horrific. In Tibet they would flay people alive and have them walk around skinless because death penalty isn’t allowed in Buddhism. Barbaric disgusting religion.

>>18026004
Become Nichiren Shoshu and you don't have to worry about any of this. You also get to mock the Zen practitioners as demonic constantly. It's wonderful

Death cults both.

>>18025913
That would be the exception. Its emphasis on letting go of mental constructs resonates with interfaith contemplative practices, even paralleling aspects of Sufi fana.

>>18025404
Kek Buddhism is the ultimate emo teenager religion
It's endgame is death, but not just death, but like super-duper death
Now that I think of it it's not even teenager worthy, probably a religion for 12 year old girls

>>18026572
Meanwhile Christianity
>He called a child, whom he put among them, and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:2)
>People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them, and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. (Luke 18:15-16)
>"Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it." (Mark 10:15)
>At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; (Matthew 11:25)
. . .
>a dozen other references to Christians being referred to as children

>>18025404
What makes belief in reincarnation more rational than theism? Seems equally as silly.

>>18026644
matter cannot be destroyed or created

>>18026661
You sound just as retarded as Christian fundamentalists.

Why it's easier to believe when you die your ghost goes to another dimension

Than it is to believe that when we die we go back to the world we see already with our eyes, and the same thing like what we experienced happens again?

>>18025404
In theravada buddhism, your entire life is based on a spiritual credit score. You get good karma by giving alms to monks, supporting temples, prostration to the Buddha. Killing animals, drinking alcohol, ignoring those in need gives you bad karma. It really feels like no one gives a shit about you, and everything bad is your fault for not. An earthquake destroys your home? Maybe you swatted a mosquito one time. Your dumbass. The bank of buddha doesn't want to hear your excuses.

At least in Christianity, the idea is There's a God that loves you and he'll take time to understand you. You're his children, and his son sacrificed himself so that you wouldn't be smited out of existence, despite the fact you probably deserved it. That's how much he cares about you.

Buddha? He was basically a rich cunt who saw an old person one time, and was so disgusted, he devoted his life to making sure he can just disappear into nothingness so he never has to come back to this world and look at a disgusting old fuck ever again.

The Buddha's Dharma is rooted in compassion

The enlightenment of the Buddha is impossible without complete and universal compassion for all beings

>>18025404
That's just apathy with a few extra steps, with Christianity being moralfaggotry with a few extra steps

>>18025404
why are buddhas ears so big?

Reality is inheretly dualistic. Even your own thread proves it. It's Buddhists against Christians instead of people being united.

People say that all religions are pathways to God, other people say it's only one religion period, and those people clash. Again, dualism. You cannot escape dualistic thinking. It's always you against someone else, one person against another, etc. Even if you say that you accept all people and religions, you would have a problem with people who disagree with that, making you a hypocrite.

There's nothing wrong with dualism because that's how it is. Just choose the right religion and fight for it, make dualism extreme.

>>18027440
Buddhist legend has it that Buddha's clan wore expensive heavy earrings that stretched down their earlobes

His empty earlobes symbolize renunciation of material wealth

>>18026722
>At least in Christianity, the idea is There's a God that loves you and he'll take time to understand you.
The same god that will tell parents to sacrifice their firstborn, mutilate themselves, murder people because they either don't worship him, or wrongly if they do, cast away everything dear to them so only him is the center of his their life, and then harm his followers anyway even if they do everything right just to make them 'build character'? The one who said that he was going to curse jews if they went against his laws, and then he sends his son who acts against them, gets killed for it, and then the loyal and obeying jews are suddenly evil in his eyes?

That same god?

>>18025404
Also, Buddhism syncretize with local traditions and people continued to worship their native gods while being practicing Buddhists.
Meanwhile, Christianity exterminated every local tradition it came across.

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Ironically enough there is something like sola fide buddhism called pure land buddhism or amitabha buddhism.

>>18028058
when you take ideas from the avatamsaka sutra that there are infinite worlds with infinite buddhas all created through mind,
the pure land doctrines become a logical conclusion

some sects focus on the breath for meditation, or meditate on nothingness and emptiness, or meditate on certain mantras or mandalas, but always with the same goal of cultivating one-pointed mindfulness
the pure land schools use as their center of focus the form and name of the Buddha

if we assume that the worlds created through consciousness are infinite, and the Buddha takes different forms in different worlds,
it seems logical that there must be a world where the Buddha is perfect, supremely luminous, the ideal of what a Buddha is

and all Buddhas are ultimately the same dharma-body, so which Buddha or which form or which name you revere is irrelevant
all of it is worship of the Buddha

to aspire to be reborn in Sukhavati under the perfect Buddha Amitabha is to aspire to a perfect opportunity to follow the dharma in another life, without the obstacles of this one
the goal remains eventual Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings, not simply rebirth in a heaven-like place without suffering

it's harder to understand from a dry, scholarly point of view looking in from outside
people who think that pure land buddhism is some kind of corrupted or fake form of buddhism where you just pray to buddha and can be as bad as you want otherwise do not really understand

>>18025404

Christianity is the Truth.

>>18025404
> You're either saved or damned,
Or in the process of deifying.
>God is totally other
And totally familiar, having become man.
>your ego stays boss of your life.
Until you deny yourself, like Christ repeatedly asks you.

>embracing emptiness
>breaking the self down to let real compassion flow
>dissolves the subject/object split
>impersonal personality
This is mostly just fancy metaphysical lingo (based on Western ego trip, ironically) for one of the biggest mistakes and one of the most effectie ways of dying imaginable: giving up personhood.
Personhood is not ego, personhood is constrained by ego. You're throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Buddhism is an incredibly effective method at achieving particular psychological and spiritual ends. And in the West, where having any spiritual methods at all is seen as a borderline miracle, that turns heads. But it's a partial truth. In Christianity you empty yourself (kenosis), give yourself (sacrifice), break your ego (denying yourself) and free your soul (nous) without paying your humanity as a price. If humanity was good enough for our savior, it is good enough for us, we dont' need to become robots on one side and we don't need to be come nothingness on the other.

>>18028549
>This is mostly just fancy metaphysical lingo (based on Western ego trip, ironically)
It's a misleading translation that has laid your ignorance bare for all of us who actually understood Gautama. You are a foolish man, as I believe he would say.

t. Maronite

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>>18026688
You come back until you see through the illusion of the world as separate from the divine. At that Realization, you've "in Heaven" and furthermore don't have to come back into the physical world anymore unless you choose to as a teacher/guide. :)