If many in the West took a genuine interest in Buddhism and converted, would people’s quality of life increase...

Estoic beliefs should come back

>pewdiepie is now shilling buddhism

You literally don't know shit about buddhism, never speak again.

Peoples quality of life would greatly increase because they would learn to put ego aside(not completely remove it), live in moderation, take ownership for your actions, live in accordance with the Dao, live healthier, be happier(because they give up expectations and live).

Daily reminder buddhists see common ground with a lot of elements in christianity, is extremely redpilled, conservative and values family and tradition.

According to buddhists, yes. He became enlightened.

unironically yes, he just transferred their 'system' and adapted it towards christianity.

All well & good if you're lucky enough to be living in a temple with all your needs provided for you, but these useless faggots don't last a minute in the real world where you've got to fight for your own survival.

There's no such thing as 'enlightenment', it's a meme cult leaders use to sucker in gullible cucks.

Yeah, sure. Spend some time in a zen monastery and meet people who experience satori.

It doesn't work like that.
t. Buddhist

No, he may have been enlightened but the philosophy of Christianity is not just a "westernized" version of Buddhism, and religions should not be mixed any more than races should.

You know they have to do the chores to make the temple function right? Like planting vegetables and rice, maintaining the temple grounds like cleaning stuff, and also do their daily training and meditation exercises, right?

Having met mystics of various stripes, some of them are very clever men, but all of them are consummate con artists, even if they claim total belief in their own methodologies.

Though my specific area of experience is in Islamic Zikr, it's pretty much the same as Mantras.

>Islam
>is the same
get the fuck out.

>some of them are very clever men
I let you in on a secret from the Shobogenzo, "Zen is realizing, there is nothing to realize."

>Though my specific area of experience is in Islamic Zikr
you cant compare abrhamic twaddle to buddhism.

>You know they have to do the chores
Like cosseted little children in nursery school, but in the real world you can do all the chores you like & still starve, in the real world you have to battle for your survival, something these useless cunts in their ivory towers know nothing about.

It really is all the same shit, one might have a few kernels of undigested sweetcorn still in it.

At their best all religions are just social adhesive, and at their worst, are nothing but heinous twaddle.

And Zikr is LITERALLY the same as doing mantras.

All you shmucks are just arguing over what colour freezer pop is better to shove up your asshole.

None of it does anything that isn't a phenomenon limited to the space inside your own mind.

>Would degeneracy vanish?

No. The default for white people is endless degeneracy. It's why white men scream for maximum Christianity and then get caught in the bathroom at 7-11 getting fucked in the ass by a male escort, and why white priests like to suck on little boys peckers.

The problem isn't religion or a lack of it, it's that white people are inherently and extremely degenerate--most especially the white women. The solution is simple: we need to pair three white men with a single asian women as a family unit, and leave white women to stay single or rut with blacks. Only Hapas can fix what is broken with white people.

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It takes a special level of retard to plant your own paddies and sow your own vegetables and still starve. You can complain that monasteries are organized and that some buddhists beg for alms rather than maintaining material property, but there is an order of magnitude difference between eastern religion and western "religion" as far as raising "donations" and "charity". Muslims, Christians, and jews all make big business out of their religions, a buddhist will politely go his own way unless you ask and jains, shintos and hindus will actively tell you to fuck off even if you do ask.

It's not the same shit, why do you feel the need to bring Islamic bullshit into a buddhist thread? YOUR shit is the same shit because Jesus = Mohammed = Moses, it is not the same as the eternal law of eastern religions and if you haven't studied any eastern philosophy then don't claim you can equate the two.

Mantras are not just repeating rote phrases for good luck any more than weight lifting is just repeating rote movements for swole gainz. You missed the fucking point because you're a retard.

That's probably true but what reason is there to preserve the white race if that's the case? They're just snowniggers, let them go extinct with the rest of the sons of abraham.

Doing doesn’t exist. You don’t say “I do human” to describe your existence. In french it would even describe the fact to look like a human or to roleplay a human, hence to not be one. In other words doing is death and being is life.

these two have clearly read some eastern philosophy.

>That's probably true but what reason is there to preserve the white race if that's the case?

Excellent point. At this point given how far the white race has fallen I really don't care all that much if we make it. The white man has descended into a permanent underclass working shitty blue collar trades jobs and will easily be replaced by Mexicans.

If anything the Hapa future is really the last, best, and only option if the white man survives at all. I guess that is really my point.

That isn't fulfilling your karma, that's abandoning it. Raise a proper white family instead of subverting your own culture by borrowing from East Asia. White people were great once, they can be great again. You're just trash tier now, but I suppose that is temporary, like all things.

>White people were great once, they can be great again.

Sure. Pre-Christian Rome was the last time white people were great. Then what happened? Christianity did. Then white men handed banking, lending, and essentially venture capital to non-whites, and it's been downhill every since. Are you ready to give up Christianity? Are masses of other white men ready to give it up? Are we going to tear down the churches, and the crosses, and burn the Bibles?

NO. You won't do that will you? You'll keep on with your stupid religion, making stupid mistakes, and adding to your endless string of defeats, until the last white dies. I'm just being realistic about it. A non-Christian Hapa future is the last and only hope for any degree of white preservation. Prove me wrong. I dare you. Try and use actual facts because I'm not interested in your feels.

>It takes a special level of retard to plant your own paddies and sow your own vegetables and still starve.
>being this rigid in thought that you can't grasp analogy
You're a fucking moron, ok I'll lower myself down to your level and make it really simple, to even BEGIN to 'plant your own vegetables' & live off them, you first need to own LAND, you need at least half a million to be able to do that, these useless man children monks wouldn't even have the first clue how to go about doing that, seeing as their whole environment is already provided for them, all they need to do is follow the rules like automatons, no stress, no bills, nothing, they wouldn't survive a second out in the real world, that's why they take the EASY option & hide away in monasteries like pathetic little cunts.

I'm not white, and I hold Christianity in higher regard than the other Abrahamic religions.

I think the Western non-religious philosophy espoused in classic Americana, i.e. private property, free speech, and limited government is a good path forward for the white race. I suppose everyone will soon see what will happen with regard to the future of the West. Either way, it was a commendable effort and a good run while it lasted.

>you need to own land
The monastery owns the land, usually from private donation or settlement long ago. You're giving absolutely no regard to the ancient tradition that monks follow, and that is exactly the disgusting hubris of most westerners that results in the moral decay Jow Forums loves to complain about.

Thought this was a joke but I found the video.

Good for Pewds, yet another reason to like him. Aside from this book review, has he said anything else on the matter?

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>I'm not white, and I hold Christianity in higher regard than the other Abrahamic religions.

Okay, so you admit to refusing to learn from your mistakes, and failing to adapt? Congrats. That's how wars are lost. I literally just explained using crayon-tier writing why Christianity is trash here:

The best part of Buddhism is ruthlessly and unapologetically removing kebeb. We should all convert.

Those are not my mistakes and it isn't my place to comment on Christian civilization; you seem like you have a grudge against Christianity and aren't approaching this with an open mind.

Look, at the end of the day Christian nations are largely facing replacement by Muslims between the refugee "crisis" and leftist conversion doctrine, at 10% of the population Muslims will take over and by 35% full sharia is likely to be implemented. It's been that way for nearly a thousand years and the recipe never changes. If Christianity is the best stand against that, I am very happy with Christianity and renewed Christendom. It's not my cup of tea, but I practice my religion at home and in private discussion. As far as public affairs are concerned, I'd rather say "one nation under god" than "allahu akbar", because I know what is really meant by the two phrases and one is much more palatable than the other.

There's only one ideology powerful enough to banish the abrahamic slave religion for good.

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ALL mysticism is fake.

I get it, you're an orientalist, you probably believe the mysterious east holds all the answers.

Well it doesn't Steve.

If there's a disease under the sun they've tried to cure it with some combination of bear bile and tiger penis.

And that part of the world isn't in fact notably more peaceful or "enlightened" than anywhere else.

dear god, the ultra red. hid it away, less the animals find out.

>mysticism is fake
Only because by definition mysticism is fake. If it were real, you'd call it a miracle in English, not mysticism.

>if there's a disease they cure it with bear bile and tiger penis
I think that's an oversimplification of what increasingly is an obvious endorsement of old herbs actually being confirmed to have medicinal properties by Western medicine in double blind studies, but whatever.

>that part of the world isn't any more enlightened
You don't become enlightened just because you're Buddhist, but you ostensibly go to heaven just for being a christian/muslim/jew. That's the difference, Eastern "religion" is actually a philosophy, whereas Western "theology" is actually just religious pseudoscience.

>if everybody began to practice an ideology that emphasizes not being too bothered by quality of life would quality of life increase?
:thinking:

>ruthlessly and unapologetically removing kebeb
I read excerpts from an ancient Buddhist text (Tibetan) that proclaimed Buddhists will one day anihilate the Muslims and bring about an era of Love and Peace as a result.

How can Jow Forums not get onboard with that? More importantly though, why would peace-loving Buddhists resort to violence when it comes to Islam?

Buddhists are not peace-loving hippies as Western media likes to portray. It's one thing to see ants in your yard, if your pantry is being raided by ants its time to declare war. Same thing, the natural order and the peaceful existence of life itself is threatened by Islam, so naturally those who are allied with existence in its full meaning would stand to defend it.

Muslims are African carp. Muslims are cancer. Muslims need to be contained to their couple acres in MENA if not eradicated from the earth itself. The alternative is to flee earth itself for the stars because the cockroaches have taken over our home planet. Pick one.

There is nothing that Jesus and Lao Zi would disagree on. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. A violent man will die a violent death.

>Implying Moksha isn't just "Heaven" as oblivion/oneness with the godhead

Meaningless exoticism.

Duh, but a violent death isn't necessarily a bad one.

I'd rather have my head smashed in than die of malnutrition in a jail cell, or of a wasting disease.

Violence is nothing to be afraid of, it is the last and greatest of our tools which must be applied with ritual care.

Do you have to think about walking to have a decent walk?

You don't know what the words really mean because you were born in Abrahamic culture; I don't think you can ever achieve enlightenment even if you tried. Moksha is being one with the flow of the universe, its the feeling you get when you just sit beside a rolling stream and let the water caress your feet.

There's some similarities on the surface, but that's about it.
All abrahamic religions are death cults. That's not an insult, but they exalt death.as their central dogma, as where the promise of salvation exists. Taoism (like many other old pagan religions) is the absolute opposite, it seeks to make life as fulfilling as possible while you have it, and to extend it because it's precious. Some methods of the two might overlap, but they're very different.

Buddhist monks in Thailand are asked not to show affection towards each other nor to hang around hookers while the tourists are visiting.
They get sex ed classes and free condoms too. It's in the Thai budget you can look these things up.
And the monks that are fat have an eating disorder because of mental issues, so that's how wholesome meditation really is irl.
All of the buddhist stuff like any other religion sounds nice but it's hard to implement, it's some ephemeral virtue signalling crock of shit.

What a load of obfuscant wiffle you talk.

Moksha is the escape from reincarnation and the rejoining with the godhead, pure and simple, you autistic weaboo.

All you frauds are the same, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian or Hindu; you take beliefs that fundamentally make no to little sense, then you behave all "mystical" and justify your sustained state of cognitive dissonance as an "enlightened state".

It might fool a toothless Dalit into giving you his last dung cake, but not anybody with a quart of rational grey matter.

You're not enlightened, you're a Pankawallah.

>Would degeneracy vanish?
You know, the Buddha lead a pretty degenerate, luxurious and wasteful life with whores, wine, partying all the time. It took years of that for him to go "Meh, that's not it.".

>the rejoining with the godhead
Ok buddy now explain what the fuck that actually means.

>frauds
I'm not the one insisting on using ill-defined words and concepts borrowed from foreign languages to explain my position

>pankawallah
you fucking take that back

If many in the West (woke up to the true nature of reality), would people’s quality of life increase? Would degeneracy vanish? Probably yes.

So it is written in the opening stanza of the Visuddimagga:

“When a wise man, established well in virtue,
Develops consciousness and understanding,
Then as a bhikkhu ardent and sagacious
He succeeds in disentangling this tangle”
______________________________________
This was said. But why was it said? While the Blessed One was living at Sávatthì,
it seems, a certain deity came to him in the night, and in order to do away with his
doubts, he asked this question:
“The inner tangle and the outer tangle—
This generation is entangled in a tangle.
And so I ask of Gotama this question:
Who succeeds in disentangling this tangle?” (S I 13).
2. Here is the meaning in brief. Tangle is a term for the network of craving. For
that is a tangle in the sense of lacing together, like the tangle called network of
branches in bamboo thickets, etc., because it goes on arising again and again up
and down1
among the objects [of consciousness] beginning with what is visible.
But it is called the inner tangle and the outer tangle because it arises [as craving] for
one’s own requisites and another’s, for one’s own person and another’s, and for
the internal and external bases [for consciousness]. Since it arises in this way, this
generation is entangled in a tangle.

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>There's some similarities on the surface, but that's about it.
Mostly true, but the more ardent that Christians grew, the more they started to sound like Daosists or Buddhists. The Cloud of Unknowing is a great example, as are the works of St. John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart. The sad part is that they had to censor themselves for fear of being put in a torture chamber at the hands of the inquisition.

For any Christians reading this this thread: please check out the cloud of unknowing. You can get a great translation from Amazon or just simply read the simple Middle-English version online here catholicspiritualdirection.org/cloudunknowing.pdf

Yes Buddhism is against many modern degeneracy caused by cravings and materialism and greed as it explains the consequences of degeneracy and the suffering it will cause to ones self and others. Not only that but many liberals go muh I can do what I want and not face consequences and no god can judge me but in Buddhism its your karma that decides and karma is a person but a force of nature like gravity

christianity wa heavily edited by Constantine and co but in its old form it might be more like buddhism in some ways I mean the dalai lama talks of jesus maybe being a bodhisttva I think it was

Typo karma isn't a person but a force of nature like gravity

Most of you will say no, but I know this for a fact that in the missing years of Jesus, which you don't find in the Bible, Jesus was in Tibet learning Buddhism. He wanted to bring peace to the middle east desert by using the concepts developed in the cool peaceful mountains of the east.

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KYS kike , these people are max buddhist and max degenerate

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Buddhism teaches against sexual misconduct.

Take the Christ pill

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no thanks kike, I'll stick with Jesus Christ and so will all anons here .

Tell me again about the great flood. Was it God that deceived all those geologists by hiding the evidence? Or was it Satan?

I am no kike. I am opposed to Zionist materialism

Why accept the fake, dumbed down, gook version of Christianity?

Its the most sophisticated religion there is and its not just in Asia there Greco Buddhist kingdoms for example

GO. FUCK. YOUR. SELF.
>kike

>Most of you will say no, but I know this for a fact that in the missing years of Jesus, which you don't find in the Bible, Jesus was in Tibet learning Buddhism. He wanted to bring peace to the middle east desert by using the concepts developed in the cool peaceful mountains of the east.
Hmmm, there is actually a Hindy or Buddhist temple that reveres a guy who survived crucifixion then moved to India.

youtube.com/watch?v=QAaW6BYhfNM

The title sounds ridiculous but it is a great documentary.

So, what you're saying is the same thing every other Christian has said? Par for the course Christcucks.

Does Christianity teach you to use profanity?

Lol gtfo, back to yoga class. A brit Buddhist is worst than a LARPagan. Your ancestors hand you the one true religion and you drop the ball just because some jews tell you its bad on tv and in school. Like the progressives you've been taught to hate your people

who are you, my confessr to tell me about my faith ?
go fuck yourself you worthless kike

Brainwashed fundemnntalist I see kind of like those "zionist christians"

>christianity isn't degenerate
>pic related
>read the bible
>yep, we, as his church, are the bride of christ

Explain yourselves, christcucks, are you actually getting pretty and submissive for your chad because you will be made into women?

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>Explain yourselves, christcucks, are you actually getting pretty and submissive for your chad because you will be made into women?
what's this, the new JIDF attack vector ? That Christianity is feminine ? Go fuck yourselves jews, you are trash and we know .

>in the real world you have to battle for your survival

user the rest of the world isn't like britain where you need to fight immigrants daily for your survival.

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I knew it! Thanks!

How is it possible that two people in two different places said the same things unless they learnt from the same source i.e. God.

Jesus was a Buddha. He was enlightened and in touch with the divine.

We're dealing with muslim grooming gangs, drugging and extortion here in toothpaste. Corruption is growing.

>Jesus was a Buddha
Heresy, Christ is Logos and buddha burns in hell

It's a real branch of christianity, and the theology is sound, the church is the bride of christ and the church isn't the building, but the people.

Make sure to suck well on that cut dick of your rabbi husbando.

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Your messed up if you want to put everyone in hell for not having your religion.

True religion coming thru

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So unpeaceful. You need Buddhism in your life.

I'm Buddhist and this is epic level stupid. People make these dumb images and share online. I dislike it.

buddha literally burns in hell, don't ask how I know but so it is

the only Christianity there is is Orthodoxy, we've been through this , how you passed from a metaphor to gay imagery is your gay problem, not mine you stupid kike

ffs jews, get the hell out

Being conversion hungry is what is going to get the west killed. That's why you are importing people from all over the world. To convert them. But at the end it will only lead to your destruction.

convert now before it's too late we're close to big events

So you believe you go to hell for not worshiping Jesus but Buddha was born a few hundred years before Jesus

>we've been through this
No one believes your kikery, you femme fatale, and the claim is biblical, the church is the bride of christ, and the church is the people who follow christ, not a building, so you will be taking the cut dick inside and the jewish seed of abraham

no not really , the whole reincarnation is a deception
look you are obviously disturbed, go find a doctor pls

no. people change their religion like the wind changes direction. its all about fitting in, not spiritual fulfillment

I can't believe how much this gurl is raging because she's being told that his husbando awaits in the afterlife with his cut dick to penetrate her.
You have to take it gurl, it's the way of females, he's the man of the house and your husband and you have to take his seed and bear children and be submissive, he probably will do anal to you so you become more submissive, since it is obvious that you aren't taking this teaching to heart.

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you are fucking crazy and it shows , i don't feel bad about your state