Without attachments and passions, why even live?
Face it. This is hell. Our bodies are hell machines for our souls. We're in hell.
I'm uniquely qualified to answer this as I am a perfectly enlightened Buddha of the highest possible order.Your attachments come from a need to control what you do not control. The only way to get what you want 100% of the time is to practice radical acceptance.In this state you will know no desire and everything will happen exactly as you want because you want exactly what is, which is better than what you call "passions" which I see as the mewling of an angry baby who had his toy taken in most cases.
>>41386003What if people want to physically hurt me? Should I just sit and let them hit me? Or should I let my body instinctually defend itself/escape? What if I am the one who becomes violent and hurt someone else? (I don't want to hurt others).Or am I overthinking this too much and I shouldn't care what happens in the future?
>>41386474it seems the "uniquely qualified perfectly enlightened Buddha" here is coping and seething with the barren, lifeless "life" they've chosen for themselves. we all struggle in different ways I guess. so sad.
>>41385987That's the reason why you don't abandon all of them. You cherry pick 2 or 3 attachments to stay in this plane of existence.
>>41386683"you"Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about Buddhism. What are you talking about? Whatever it is, it's not Buddhism.
>>41386700Who are you?
>>41385995What would cure you of this symptom, brother? Death?
>>41385987Great question. The answer is that we shouldn't live.
>>41386474The nervous feeling/ overthinking that you are experiencing right now about all these potential futures is a form of suffering right? So you are suffering now for something that might never happen. To that end, you can control without feeling a need to, or harbouring cope about not being able to, by being nice. when you are nice to people they will very rarely after that still hurt you. and if you have genuine nice feelings towards them too you will never get violent. So the chances of any of these things actually happening if you become enlightened becomes diminished. buddha was only attacked canonically a few times, and every time he manages to completely disarm the problem through being nice and compassionate with empathy and never violence, and the worst that ever happened was a cut on the foot. canonically he stopped a raging drunk bull in the street, as in a large male elephant who was fed alcohol in order to become destructive, just from thinking nice thoughts about him in his direction.
>>41385995This is heaven. You are living unnaturally so it feels like hell, but this is heaven. In nature you are allowed to do what you want to do. In captivity and enslavement you will never be happy. Break your chains and don't acknowledge their existence anymore. Be free.
>>41385987>Without attachments and passions, why even live?This is a desire, a root of suffering and a common misconception of Buddhism I've noticed online; that attachments are the source of suffering. It's important to understand desire is the root of suffering. Buddha said it himself.Buddhism is the due process liberation from suffering. (4 noble truths)Its learning to reduce suffering. (8fold path)Its a gradual process of eventually learning our attachments are dangerous because they lead to suffering, hence why we escape them.We now have the power to suffer on our own terms.
>>41387282"Nature" isn't liberating, you dumb fuck. Why don't you take your own advice and go live in the middle of the woods far away from civilization and see how that works out for you.
>>41385987Because it is better to be complete and fulfilled?
>To think, I am not meditating, is pride. To think, I am meditating, is a second form of pride. To be free of pride is the highest Enlightenment." - King of Samadhis Sutra
Just my two cents; it may allegorically answer OP's question. I am currently reading the King of Samadhis Sutra because it was referenced in Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva. I am going thru all the sutras he cited so I can be exposed to little known verses. Anyway, it's about the samadhi called the Equality of all Phenomena. It seems like a hard samadhi to attain, but the text starts saying, for those who give up family, for those who leave their home, for those with no possessions, this samadhi will not be difficult to attain. The little allegory I put forward is that all of this HAPPENED to me, I have no possessions, I live in an institution, my family forsakes me, and it's a Happy thing, because I can live by the words of the Buddha. Secondly I did not have to give these things up willingly, as if to join a cult. Everything just fell into place. I think this portrays how the Tathagata is the root of existence, and while God took these things from me thru his wrath, the Buddha is very gentle, and takes credit for its fruit.
>>41389264Based schizo
>>41385987Yeah. They say killing yourself is a sin, but then if you don't kill yourself you still keep on sinning. Isn't it better to kill myself and never sin anymore than to keep on living for some decades and during this whole time keep on sinning? The more I think about it. The more killing oneself seem to be the more logical thing to do. But for some reason we can't kill ourselves. I think killing oneself is wrong because this way you cheat life and god or whatever did not like that so he made killing yourself be a sin. Or everything is a lie and killing yourself really is the answer.
