Christianity is just Platonism for people who can't handle Platonism. The form of the Good gets a beard and a temper, the problem of evil becomes a character flaw in God that requires a human sacrifice to fix, and you're supposed to spend your whole life in a subject/object relationship with a being whose main thing is that you owe him. Buddhism figured out that the subject doing the owing is already a confabulation. There's no self to be saved. The whole soteriological architecture of Christianity collapses the moment you take dependent co-origination seriously because there's nobody to redeem and nothing to redeem them from in the way Christianity means it. And impermanence isn't a consolation prize for not having a heaven, it's the actual structure of experience which Christianity just slaps a narrative onto so people don't have to sit with it. The amount of metaphysical infrastructure Christianity needs to prop up what is basically a guilt economy is embarrassing. Original sin is doing so much work. Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā treats causation more rigorously in its opening verses than the entire Western theological tradition manages in two thousand years, which fine, different projects, but don't tell me they're equivalent.
Same shit, all religion and worship.Shit.
>>534877561Jesus Christ paid the prize for your shortcoming for you so you have direct access to God. its already done there is no input from you required other than turning back to God.Buddhism only offers non existence which is basically just death of the soul.
>>534877752I understand why a poo would think that.
Buddhism's core principle is inner peace, which differs from Western religions that place God at the center.
>>534877561> There's no self to be saved.All suffering stems from clinging to a self that doesn't exist.
>>534877561>Buddhism vs. Christianity #57 today>1 pbtid>>534880749>you don't reality exist>be happy about thatDeep
>>534877561Then the congregated devas, their minds filled with joy,scattered jewels that formed a cloud hanging up in the sky,whereupon they all sang with different sorts of sublime voicesaddressed to The Most Supremely Pure One, saying:“Having penetrated the supreme meaning, possessing masterful knowledge,and having perfected a hundred thousand koṭis of fine qualities,a lotus among men, entirely free of any attachments,proclaims here the profound practices to benefit all beings.”The Vaśavartin Heaven King, abiding there in space,emanated a great light that illuminated the Buddha’s bodyand spread forth the most superior sorts of sublime incense clouds,all presented as offerings to he who dispels worries and afflictions.Then, the entire congregation of devas, all of them joyful,all sang beautiful sounds in a united chorus of praises:“Having heard here of the qualities comprising this ground, wehave thence all reaped immense and fine benefit.”
Son of the Buddha, employing deep wisdom, this bodhisattva engages in such contemplative meditations as these whereby he always diligently cultivates these forms of skillful means and wisdom and thus brings forth this especially supreme path wherein he becomes so securely and unshakably established in it that there is not so much as a single moment in which he rests or desists. While walking, standing, sitting, lying down, and even in the midst of sleep and dreams, he never even briefly involves himself with any of the hindrances and he never abandons thought such as this.
In each successive moment, this bodhisattva is always able to completely fulfill the ten pāramitās. And how is this the case? This is because he takes the great compassion as foremost in every successive mind-moment as he cultivates the Buddha’s Dharma and proceeds toward realization of the Buddha’s knowledge. In particular:He bestows on beings all roots of goodness he develops in the course of seeking to acquire the Buddha’s knowledge. This is what constitutes dāna pāramitā.He is able to extinguish the heat of the afflictions. This is what constitutes śīla pāramitā.Taking kindness and compassion as foremost, he refrains from inflicting harm on beings. This is what constitutes kṣānti pāramitā.He is insatiable in seeking supremely good dharmas. This is what constitutes vīrya pāramitā.He always keeps the path of all-knowledge directly present before him, never becoming scattered or distracted. This is what constitutes dhyāna pāramitā.He is able to patiently acquiesce in all dharmas as neither produced nor destroyed. This is what constitutes prajñā pāramitā.He is able to bring forth measureless knowledge. This is what constitutes the pāramitā of skillful means.He is able to seek out higher and higher levels of knowledge. This is what constitutes the pāramitā of vows.None of the deviant doctrines or hordes of māras are ever able to obstruct him or bring about his ruination. This is what constitutes the pāramitā of powers.He utterly knows all dharmas in accordance with reality. This is what constitutes the pāramitā of knowledge.
>>534877561>pick a false religion>go to hellMany such cases
Son of the Buddha, this bodhisattva is able to completely fulfill all of the ten pāramitās in every successive mind-moment. It is in this way that, in each successive mind-moment, he is able to completely fulfill the four means of attraction, the four types of retention, the thirty-seven factors conducing to enlightenment, the three gates to liberation, and, to state it briefly, all dharmas assisting the realization of bodhi.
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