Vajrayana Buddhism fascinates me a lot, but the idea of bodhisattvas actually returning to Samsara in physical bodies is hard to reconcile with the Gnostic idea of the material world as a trap. All I know from experience is that suffering is very real, and I don't trust people who imply that you just stop worrying about it as a Buddha. My higher-self, buddha-nature, etc. might not think it's suffering, but I know that I am and I don't like being used as a puppet, even if it's for an altruistic cause. Is it selfish to think this way?
That's because it is a trap, the bodhisattva is an archon. When you closen to liberation the archons try to recruit you, misery loves company. This is why the buddha was a pragmatist, he wanted it to be done quick, archons are pragmatists as well. The only way to truly achieve gnosis is via self-inflected liberation, without the help of any archon or bodhisattva. Your chit is the vajra and the body is the yana. There's no 3rd party.
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>>42050007What is the based path then, oh enlightened one?
>>42049979That's very perceptive, and I agree. It's hard though because devotion is how I was taught to understand religion. Let's say I devote myself to Amitabha, but instead of relying on him for liberation, I'm training myself to identify myself as him. Does that work for liberation?
>>42050271Just realize the emptiness of phenomena and conditioned reality, which makes Samsara equally empty as Nirvana.
>>42050271It's better than veneration but might end up inflating the false ego, remember that amitabha operates on a cosmic scale and isn't/aren't sentient perse
>>42049818Gnosticism is incompatible with the Buddhist claim there is nothing eternal.Gnosticism aligns much better with Vedanta, as both accept an eternal source.
