I have an axe to grind about a sort of herd mentality that I see in common Buddhists, for example psychiatric mindfulness (so I'm tempted to disparage Nicht That Hanh, as being unskillful and causing suffering and heresy), awareness (which posits an observer), and present moment (which contradicts the Diamond Sutra, saying that a present thought cannot be grasped). I'm wondering about this Nichiren interpretation of the Lotus Sutra, which says the Lotus Sutra allows Buddhism to be attained in THIS life time. SGI runs with this and says you can attain Buddhahood (or perhaps a new car) by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo...Basically, this is NOT in the text. The Lotus Sutra does NOT say that reading it causes one to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime. I have read it over 40 times, but monks and nuns constantly say this. The weird thing is, I think it actually did give me a huge achievement, so I am wondering if these ordained and lay people have some mystical insight into the Abode of the Lotus Sutra, wherein Buddhahood in this lifetime is factually promised, though not explicitly in the text. So on the one hand I'm annoyed that everyone and their mother preach an interpretation of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo that is not in the text, and on the other hand thru mystical exposure to the Sutra I have developed a profound connection to the Self-Nature, just by reading and listening to it. Grok can't find it in the text either, and it said the Single Vehicle means everyone can attain Buddhahood. That's not what the Single Vehicle means: it means all paths are the Single Vehicle to Omniscience. So it seems like culturally entrenched heresy, yet in my experience it is true, and I am wondering if the promise of achievement in this lifetime is real (not for myself, but rather because I am concerned about heresy) or where it came from?
Grok says >The Single Vehicle doctrine promotes universality, asserting that Buddhahood is accessible to allBut this isn't in the text. Does anyone have any insight?
>>41363311Read a fucking book idiotYou deserve your fate
>>41363311>Grok says
>>41363452Well my point is Grok is repeating what ordained people say, it's an indicator of the state of the culture. >>41363391What are you talking about? Pic related
>>41363391This>>41363536Why can't you zoomers think for yourselves? It's cringe. Literally go read, now. Your brain is rotted from screen time.
>>41363238Buddhism is demonic and God-denying.Please turn away from this miserable "religion" and seek repentance from Christ.
>>41363536Here's an ordained person saying exactly what Grok is saying. Use timestamp https://youtu.be/ldaEHQugkTM?t=3m55sThe fact that grok is saying something false is evidence of a cultural error, stop being so obtuse for me
>>41363565>Repentance from ChristYes I have repentance from Christ
>>41363553>Makes thread about a book >Angry man tells Anon to go read>You are here.
>>41363596GO READ, LOSER10,000 pages then come backPrinted, physical pagesDo it NOWyou have slop for brains
>>41363652You shouldn't disparage people who preach the Lotus Sutra. Gives you many bad births. I guess this answered my question
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The majority of modern popular buddhist practices/traditions arent rooted in text. They arguably aren't even purely buddhist often being the result of syncratism with various religions native to where buddhist sects took root. ie bon,taoism,shinto, etc
>>41363873All beings can attain Enlightenment in this life is something these Nichiren sects say and they are basically devoted to the TEXT. But it's not in the text. The text talks about prophecies taking thousands of kalpas to fulfill
>>41363596>Makes thread about a bookYou made a thread about asking AI to think for you.
>>41363983Sutras are made up of magic nonsense words in japanese as a result of corruption as a result of being transliterated from sanskrit to ancient Chinese to Japanese archaic pronunciation of borrowed chinese. Again this has more to do with native japanese magical beliefs centered around word spell than it does imported buddhism
>>41364325No actually I was asking you to think. Guess it's too hard for you
>>41363238Buddhism has many very powerful energies to interface with in its concepts, but If you're caught up in the texts and "heresy", you're missing the point.
