>the path to Nirvana is arduous and long and I like my family and sex and eating food and trees and attachment>I'll just follow the Buddhist school that says I only have to say some prayers and donate to monks and be moral>it won't escape samsara but I'll be reborn in a Buddha's crib>will have nothing to do but study the Dharma with a 100x EXP booster and wrap it up over there>no opportunity costI don't get Pure Land Buddhism.
How is this not just christianity. I thought the point of Buddhism is to realize nirvana and escape samsara/dukkha or whatever
>>18534471Most pop religiosity across the world and across history is the same.
For me it's Jōdo-shū vs Jōdo Shinshū vs Ji-shū>you have to say the nembutsu a gorillion times and you'll go to Pure Land, simple as>noooo you have to say it with all your heart, it only works if you reaaallly believe in it, like super duper believe in it>nooooooo you have to say it at specific regular intervals of time or else it doesn't work
>>18534370>I don't get Pure Land BuddhismNo no, you've got it
>>18534471Well you can't have all the peasants abandoning the fields and becoming ascetics to seek Buddhahood. This type of Buddhism keeps them sowing and fucking and paying taxes.
The pure land is created in consciousnessWe can create the pure land in each mind momentWhat is the difference between focusing the attention on the breath, and focusing it on the Buddha's name?
>>18534471The Buddha framed his teachings as simple advice that one should consider using as a tool to reach a goal, but people can't resist turning everything into some weird cult.
>>18534511I receive>nembutsu recited 10 timesyou receive>pure land entrance
>>18534370>>18534471The conceit of Pure Land Buddhism is similar to Calvinism in that people are fundamentally eternally deprived and cannot save themselves through personal effort alone.Instead the interference of a Buddha, a unique person that in ancient and greater times was able to defeat their human nature, is necessary for you to be rescued from the cycle of rebirth.If you are able to truly open your heart and genuinely pray with pure openness and humility for help and instruction then (usually) the Amida Buddha will grab your soul in the afterlife and bring you to his realm and.teach you the path to Nirvana. It will be a long and arduous journey even there, but under the guidance of a Buddha even a depraved modern man can find Nirvana.
>>18536365>*fundamentally eternally depravedAutocorrect got me.
>>18534370In Buddhism, everyone is destined to reach Nirvana eventually but it just differs based on the “soul” I guess (composition of psycho-physical aggregates). Some aggregates might reincarnate or be stalled here in the physical world for longer but all have same destiny.
Old meta and a cruel jokeThis world is run by people who don't forget faces, or names. Demons, bullies, pick your poison. They delight in double binds. Sometimes the "lesson" is pacifism - except when the "lesson" is a rejection of pacifism. But remember this more than most things - the old meta is the old meta. What worked for Jesus - what worked for Buddha - will not necessarily work for you.
>>18537110>What worked for Jesus - what worked for Buddha - will not necessarily work for you.This.
