I'm starting to think that if all other religions besides Buddhism lead to reincarnation, maybe Buddhism does, too. Pure Land Buddhism, where you recite Amitabha's name 10 times at death and go to Sukhavati where you can attain Buddhahood, honestly sort of sounds a bit too easy or too good to be true. What if all Buddhas just worked for the reptilians and even attaining the rainbow body doesn't save you? How do we know it does? If we can look at past life memories of children in Asia who were Pure Land Buddhist in a past life, this would falsify Pure Land Buddhism (if they were just Buddhist they would have to have thought they were enlightened to falsify Buddhism). I don't know if you guys know of anybody who has looked into this, but I'm pretty disenchanted in general by the fact that Jesus doesn't get you out of the cycle of reincarnation. For more on that look up the youtuber expanding spirit. He was told by 19 psychics that he was the apostle John, yet here he is. But I don't want to talk about christianity. Buddhism is the only religion left for me which might work.
>>42304098You have a very unusual take on this whole incarnation thing
>>42304098OP here. So I learned something from chatgpt, claude, and grok. Basically Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker who studied children recalling past life memories noticed that in Asia, Buddhists reincarnate plenty, but unfortunately they never studied the types of Buddhists who are *not supposed* to reincarnate, namely Pure Land Buddhists and anyone who happened to attain enlightenment, which is rare, but Pure Land Buddhism is common. The three AIs have told me that they didn't study kids in places where there is a lot of Pure Land Buddhism. They chose Southeast Asia instead of East Asia. Oh well. So this tells us nothing.
>>42304098What's so bad about reincarnating?
>>42304572life sucks. Buddhism teaches that you can escape suffering forever which is the same as stopping the cycle of reincarnation
That's idolatry. The only true way to stop this is to reject the self, to see as a spook like like the 'system'
>>42304594Every reincarnation related belief system has an "escape" to the cycle.Protip, reincarnation is bs.
>>42304098Pure land seems like cope and not what the Buddha taught. You're just clinging to another construct and conditioned phenomena out of fear, hoping for salvation because it's the easy way, instead of seeing the true nature of reality, the three poisons that keeps you fettered and liberate yourself from the illusion.
>>42304654idolatry isn't necessarily linked to free thought regarding Buddhism. If idolatry is bad why did nonreligious music like rock-n-roll become OK? Clearly Christians are alchemizing the death cult of modernity and calling it "new enlightenment." Alchemy must teach consent and intent as a primary doctrine so that you can see the geometry of the universe. It is basically just common respect. Without that as a prime doctrine, you can't preach door-to-door without falling into a trilemma of universal culpability.You don't have to practice meditation to be Buddhist. Combat is a form of meditation, as is fishing. I had a dream that I was deeply aesthetic, in charge of some Buddhist prisoners. They were amazed at my empty quarters despite my pay. I told them with a smile, "I am happy with just a sheet of paper," which is true. Under alchemy, with infinite feminine dexterity and will, you can be infinitely happy. Alchemy can thus be described as the invention of games. If you want to argue idolatry, I'd say alchemy is Buddhist and the idolatry is the poison as to nightshade. Thus, all forms of arguing idolatry is arguably anti-intellectual and harmful to the free world (or at a minimum under my interpretation).
>>42305826Excuse this post as I'm too ESL for that word salad, what I meant by idolatry was the part of amitabha, to me that sounds like an idolater's mania. all I'm saying is that, as long as you stick by the self, not realizing that it's a mirage, and that when you strip it of its sensory organs(basically the whole flesh suit) + memories + sankhara there's nothing that remains, that is aware of time/space, no object subject relationship, nothing by all means. Then you are going to be stuck feeding egregores for lifetimes to come.
>>42305898the downflow of feeding egregores can theoretically also be an upflow or double-upflow if you can transmute the lines of the prisonner's dilemma into being useful. By definition, this has already happened if alchemy is a fractal essence of anything.Under Christian theology, any backpedaling is considered a full-stop loss. Don't mistake word salad for vocabulary and concepts above your pay grade.one primary mandate of alchemy is that materialism is understandably unappealing to any layman but it makes pragmatic architecture to those without inhibitions or the skill to turn such a position into a useful cardalchemy would probably in a matter of seconds then scale into the industrial revolution of the soulpoison is poisonous -> distill the useful essence -> essence is shameful -> distill further -> repeat until you see geometrybut you can't do that without being baseline respectful because all words, thoughts, and emotions have both weight and pressure that is wasteful to the alchemistWhy is this relevant? I never conceded that I'm not a Buddhist, and alchemy hold's that this is still in my So Below. I found my Buddhism in the acquired taste of hard-work and practice of prophantasia. My dreams attest that I have reached a level of aesthetic and clarity that might be considered a due answer to the East's Buddhism. Alchemy is the West's answer to Buddhism. The two contain the other while paradoxically with and without the whole.
I respect all religions but only Jesus Christ is the path to follow Buddhists are atheists they dont have the strength to continue in this life they pretend they are good outside but they are evil inside God is our creator is the only one who has glory there is no reincarnation only resurrection this was our only life and existence spirituality from an atheist point of view will always fail and other Gods are just Pagan Gods like Baal
>>42304098If there is still a "you", the prison has not been escaped, only redefined. To escape suffering, one must escape the confines of form (consciousness) and return to the simplicity of awareness.>Consciousness - made of>Awareness - is
>>42309001in Sukhavati there is a you but you progress and eventually make it to Buddhahood where there is no you
>>42304548>>42304572reincarnation is bullshitidentity/individuality/ego is created by thoughts and memoriesthoughts and memories are created by the mindthe mind constitutes and is a creation of the brain/bodythoughts, memories and the mind all die with the bodyonly the observer of awareness/experiencer/self is real
>>42304666Traditional Hinduism doesnt.
The self and the consciousness are immutably bound. There is however a razor thin tight rope extending past the threshold of disassociation and into enlightenment that One may learn how to balance on if they meditation on considering more and greater points of view while letting their own point of view diminish. This does not cause an ego death like often described, if properly prepared for a total integration of distant and strange points of view is possible.
>>42313361Wandering around your memory palace is easy enough right? time consuming though, try putting a camera in each room so you can instead of navigating a space you can "choose a channel". faster but still inefficient. imagine a security console and put every camera's feed on one screen, don't even have to change channels anymore, but you still have to look through filing cabinets when you know which room to go to.get a dedicated scanner for each filing cabinet and hook them all up to the camera feed and have each one perpetually scanning all the pages in every filing cabinet in every room for any currently viable information. schizophrenia/enlightenment achievedI have not reached that point but I can see it clearly from where I have gotten.
