Zen Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta?
Simply realize this is an illusion, and you are not what you see ion the mirror. Life should be a period of recollection from the falsehood you separate yourself from.You do not need any specific teachings to realize this, and the original founders of these philosophies weren't even literate. It's not about specific knowledge. It's about self-proximity/self-similarity. In realizing what you've always been before you incarnated here is to transcend the limitations and trappings of this place.
>>42476715>Just gibberishJust answer the question bucko
>>42476735he did these teachings arent for some one who cant understand even the most basic interpretation
>>42476692Mahayana is superior to Therevada. Therefore in my opinion superior to all of them.Therevada doesn't teach how to become a buddha or bodhisattva. As well as the pure altruism or bodhichitta of wanting all sentient beings to be enlightened and the following practices that comes with it has such vastly greater postivie karma. For example just saying om mani padme hum once has such great merit in the Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra, the buddha Can't calculate it accurately or with proper analogy, even though the buddha can apparently count all the rain drops on earth for billioms of years apparently; he can't count the merits of saying om mani padme hum once. That's just ome example of a mahayana practice that just karma mogs. Tjhen you have vajrayana buddhism, which is mahayana but its just faster path to buddhaood and more dangerous because you visualize yourself as buddha which comes with pros and cons
>>42476735In trying to understand, you will. If you only seek to dismiss, then you will never learn.The basic principles are more important than their individual packaging. That was my point. There's no need for dogma, practices or ritual. There's not even much need for intelligence in the end.In letting go of all you thought you were, you will find what you've always been separate from your false identity here in manifest reality.
>>42476692Advaita vedanta
>>42476874Why?
>>42476692theravada AND early chan.
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>>42476692Mithraism
>>42476759>Good Karma: This results in pleasant experiences, higher realms of rebirth, and worldly happiness. However, it is temporary. Once the positive karmic merit is exhausted, a person returns to lower states of existence>No Merit: Emperor Wu was seeking a reward for his good deeds. Bodhidharma was pointing out that actions done with the expectation of gain or reward are ego-driven, not acts of pure, selfless awakening
"Karma" isn't real in a dogmatic sense of the term. "Karma" once referred to simple "cause and effect", and that's just what it is. It doesn't follow you after death. your own attachments to the world may, but your actions themselves are meaningless in that regard.You are not a "Karmin". You are not an agent in samsara.
>>42480261i had a girl once tell me that she 'cleared the karma' of her entire family line. pretty amazing stuff.
>>42480873Did you hear the one about the unicorn and the leprechaun? Amazing stuff as well, but neither are representative of our reality other than being derivative of it.Karma is cause and effect. The dogmatic principles mankind invented are not based in reality. They are fiction affecting mankind all the same, though, because what you believe in still changes who you are, and what you think you are, and where you think you are going Etc.People's misplaced faith in other men's words leads them astray from reality. Every single time.
>>42480889>People's misplaced faith in other men's words leads them astray from reality.i agree, and by amazing i meant deluded
>>42480892So it was a post in jest then. I almost started typing "idk if you're joking or being sincere".It is "amazing" in that right... unfortunately.
>>42480261Your actions and more importantly the intention behind them, your experiences and how you deal with them shape your state of mind and being that also remain after death. If you're an egotistical uncaring piece of shit in this life are you suddenly a saint in the afterlife?
>>42480896>Your actions and more importantly the intention behind them, your experiences and how you deal with them shape your state of mind and being that also remain after deathIf you do not let go, and if you do not realize you are not what you see in the mirror, then yes. Most often this is the case as well.> If you're an egotistical uncaring piece of shit in this life are you suddenly a saint in the afterlife?Nope.You think of this as negative and positive only, but there's a third path, and that involves neither pushing the rock up the hill or tossing it down at others.No. It involves dissubjectification and transcendence through understanding.If you think yourself either a sinner or a saint after you part from this false identity, then that means you are still attached to who and what you thought you were.it's one reason of many ancient people would burn the corpse. To allow the spirit to more easily depart form the falsehood of physical being.
>>42480896To say more, if you are attached to your beliefs of 'self' and you think you are deserving of paradise, you will find yourself there. If you think yourself deserving of Hell and punishment, yep, you will find yourself 'there' as well.It's up to you to either continue on the cycle of life and death. Punishment and reward. Or to walk off sideline to that, and be at peace. To be at rest, separate from any form of agitation.I tried to find an image appropriate for this, but its no-where to be found. So oh well.
>>42476692Just stick to non duality.
