Redpill me on Buddhism , Pol? Is it based or horseshit
Redpill me on Buddhism , Pol? Is it based or horseshit
Jayden Scott
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Colton Allen
A true buddhist would tell you that it is based horseshit.
Sebastian Jenkins
At least some of the zen buddhists.
I think Siddharta Gautama said something along the lines of buddhism just being a means to an end which is salvation where as once you reached your goal it's useless, so you should throw it away. Or to go with the more coventional metaphor if buddhism is a raft the goal is to get to the other side, you shouldn't make yourself a home on that raft.
The east is doing buddhism wrong and the raft became a home. Doesn't mean the west is doing it right either, or that eastern buddhism hasn't benefits. But much of it seems like empty formalism and in terms of the west it's spiritual materialism. Like another thing to brag about that isn't stuff you can touch necessairly, but you brag about being more spiritual or being able to sit longer and so on. But that's not the point, I at least assume. You just take pride in takiing another detour and think you're better just because you torture yourself in other ways.
Jason Torres
Buddhism, like gnosticism, is based because the aim is to escape existence rather than prolong it. There is no sin in Buddhism, only vices which keep your personal soul tethered to this material hellscape for longer than necessary.
Caleb Harris
It's legit, just do the techniques. You don't need to believe in shit or some stupid philosophies.
Lucas Perez
Semi based, esoteric Buddhism is a good start but where the path leads is pointless. The eternal recurrence is not something to run from
Aaron Lewis
That's actually wrong, afaik. Buddhism isn't niihilistic and doesn't try to stop existence, because they argue it's just another form of clinging to it. Hating it so much is still you holding it tight and hate for that matter is just one of the hub that keeps the wheel of life turning, besides greed and ignorance. So essentially the goal is more like arriving in the now and stopping the part of you that's responsible for most of your suffering. I'm not talking about pain, that will always be there, but the psychological states that make it worse without actually changing anything. Something like that.
Like in Zen I assume there's hints that the perfect state is actually just the normal state minus the craving or whatever. Mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers, chopping wood carrying water. That stuff.
The real question is what is paradise supposed to be in the first place and why do you want it.
Nicholas Johnson
>godless religion
Lmfao
Ryder Johnson
There is little pleasure in it.
Life is not all pain, there are moments of pleasure.
Alexander Gomez
Buddhism is life denying, nice trips fucking Satan, how'd you get the post through the void?
Adam Carter
not for everyone, especially if you're not born in that culture, there are simper ways to free yourself, not horseshit tho
John Watson
The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to escape the cycle of reincarnation through good karma. That's what I was getting at. You're correct that Nirvana is more of a state of mind in this life, a loss of "I".
Samuel Jenkins
To be fair though there are actually arguments that this circle of life is actually nirwana, so escaping might not mean vanishing from it. Good karma alone isn't seen as a way out necessairly either because once you come out on top you'll just go down again.
Asher Stewart
it's based
learn to meditate
Christian Foster
>thinks meditation is just sitting there
Oliver Murphy
Discount stoicism.
Jackson Brown
What else are you doing?
Lucas Ross
Isn't working out to grow muscles a major attachment that will ultimately lead to suffering since one day he will lose it? Isn't he going against Buddhas teaching?
Nicholas Green
based psychology and good technics so you can stop being a sperg
absolute horseshit theology
Jack Rodriguez
nothing.
Ryan Powell
redpill yourself.
Carter Watson
Like most religions a lot of people get lost in it, but the core is solid. The true teaching of Buddhism is that you don't need Buddhism.
Carson Hall
Absolute garbage. Buddha himself was a deadbeat dad who left his newborn son and wife for a "pack of smokes" and ran off to do dope with a bunch of street shitting ascetics in India.
Absolute shit tier, which explains why half of non Asian Buddhists are kikes.
John Morales
Eli Green
Sounds like you need to learn more about Buddhism!
Jaxon Turner
It's horseshit. It's all about detaching yourself from the cycle of suffering, but all their meditation is for naught as they still have wipe their asses, feed themselves, fetch water, etc.
Luke Smith
Horseshit
Jack Morales
>Buddhism
The most pretentious religion out there, pure horseshit
David Davis
Buddhism is a slave religion. Taoism is the best religion in Asia. It encourages balance, moderation, and ancestral respect.
Leo Gonzalez
Cargo cult
Brayden Long
>reincarnation
It's horseshit.
Never forget, the core business of every religion is making shit up for the purpose of separating tards from their cash.
Michael Cox
Matthew Wood
buddhism is a philosophy, not a religion. much like the arts, martial arts or sports is a way of being or 'doing without doing'
this user is right about the raft metaphor
Grayson Morales
Pic related
Chase Moore
no. buddhism is about gaining experience . any thing you do would build experience in a standard sense and at its core thats all you are expected to do. contrary to hinduism buddhism never ends. there is no creation mythos and no end of the world. the end goal isnt nirvana (one with everything and nothing) its just to evolve into a higher being. christians talk of serving god. buddhist talk of becoming one... or a evil god or what ever. in the tibetian version they believe in a evil god so powerful no other gods could destroy him and all the holy men of the world had to pray to seal him away
thats something christians and jews cant stomach the idea of evil being even on par with good let alone more powerful. its like they think light always defeats darkness but any source of light creates shadows
Cameron Lopez
So it's a means to an end but should not be the end of personal development
Hunter Bailey
what a shit image
Jacob Gutierrez
>Absolute garbage. Buddha himself was a deadbeat dad who left his newborn son and wife for a "pack of smokes" and ran off to do dope with a bunch of street shitting ascetics in India.
Pretty accurate desu.
I legit don't understand how westerners can ignore all the hindu-esque concepts in buddhism like reincarnation and karma.
Wyatt Thomas
It was a reaction against Hinduism, which was a rigidly racist system of control wherein Brahmins could lounge at the top and smoke weed while untouchables toiled for them in the hope of not being reincarnated as a slug.
Buddhism itself has some good things about it, but like all religions - except true Christianity (Eph 2:8-9) - it is works-based. Do this and that and you might eventually become nothingness and everythingness. (In this sense you can see that Buddha had a GENUINE longing for truth, unlike Muhammad, who was a shameless sensualist obviously only looking for pussy.)
Ian Anderson
I would accept that argument from the perspective of a Nietzschean übermensch that has embraced suffering and "amor fati" as a mean to overcome himself, but how would Buddhism be more life denying than Christianity, for example?
Landon Cook
I'm reading Ajahn Geoff de Graf's "The Wings to Awakening" right now. It really explains the Theravada doctrine clearly.
Breathe meditation only works if you practice virtue in mind speech and body in daily life.
William Allen
IDK i can tell you that Dalai Lama is kinda based.
Michael Cox
following any teaching is bluepilled as hell, one should only follow their inner voice. Even agreeing with this comment is bluepilled if you never come to this realization on your own, you are an npc user.
Evan Walker
>any politician
>based
lmao@this drone
Jason Martin
Truly amazing that people who have never done even a cursory examination of Buddhist doctrine can feel qualified to comment on it here
Hunter Carter
It can save people's lives. The buddhists seek to alleviate pain by first acknowledging they suffer and then meditating to break free of the wheel of karma, in order to reach Nirwana. In the West, there are loads of people who have lost their moral bearing. Buddhism offers a way out.
Andrew Sanchez
Based
Most people are simply too weak to endure the burden of nothingness so they flock to pathetic religions like christianity where their dying savior will reward their good boi points after they die.
It's soul-crushingly hard to maintain the Buddhist attitude especially in the world where everybody is trying hard to convince you that there IS something going on.
Jaxson Richardson
I blame the christcucks
Mason Morales
Carson Davis
>Most people are simply too weak to endure the burden of nothingness
Your life must really be very empty for you to utter that sentence with such conviction and authority. Baka
Cameron Reyes
>Dalai Lama
>Politician
Brody Gutierrez
This exactly. The Theravada doctrine is perfect in the beginning, perfect in the middle and perfect in the end.
I urge every unhappy person to at least look into it.
Accesstoinsight.org is a good start
Dominic Smith
Buddhism isn't godless, there are many gods in buddhism, included a god of hell.
Alexander Peterson
I base that on my own experiences. Primarily of my own failings and by seeing how an average person cannot even entertain a thought that there might actually be nothing.
John Carter
Definitely a reprieve from the existential hell we suffer these days
Don’t let it be an excuse to hide from your destiny tho
>When you know your path, there is no dukkah because there is no choice to be made
>If you found your way to this site, your only option is to revolt against the modern world
John Collins
Buddhism doesn't deny that there is pleasure in life, it's more as in you will never get your true fill and never be truly happy because there is some sort of dhukka in life always, be it direct suffering or being not still satiated, as in not satisfied.
Ian Stewart
What are we going to do about the sandnigger problem that's growing in Buddhist countries?
Henry Turner
Slave morality for cucks.
Ryder Turner
There’s a theory that Jesus was Buddha, in that he traveled eastward after resurrection and taught a more tailored approach to Asians for God
Ian Ross
Several things, depending on the kind of meditation, there is concentration meditation, where in you concentrate on a particular object of meditation, there is lovingkindness meditation, compassion meditation, insight meditation...
Daniel Baker
That's actually pretty based. Being able to admit to one's own shortcomings and doing something about it is one of the best things one can do.
Thomas Kelly
Being a Buddhist is only difficult until you make a breakthrough via meditation into the state of equanimity. Then you realize the goal. After that it's just freedom everyday
Xavier Parker
Buddhism is for the weak .. only retard study Buddhism ... you should go back to watch Oprah on TV .. Einstein
Jonathan Ross
>It was a reaction against Hinduism
I'm glad to see this take catching on. Never read anyone say it when I was first reading about this shit.
Chase Rogers
>I'm a sucker for NEET-shee.
>Fucking UEBERMENSCH y'all
Easton White
Yeah, once you hit a brief feeling of nirvana and got the breathing part down, you can be pretty mindful on cue.
It’s like being able to pop inside yourself and see the world around you from a safe distance
Brayden Price
Mostly just as cucked in the west as christcuckery. The Dalai Lama is very based though. Triggers liberals and commies alike.
Caleb Jenkins
I was Buddhist for years, and not one of those shitty Western Buddhists who jerks off to Alan Watts and so on. I have a soft spot for it, but I no longer follow it because I no longer believe in some of its things, such as not believing in the concept of anatta.
Oliver Murphy
>implying your theology is better
Cameron Torres
Unlike Joseph wife's son of course
Jason Green
The key to virtue is relentless mindfulness. Virtue leads to bliss
Aiden Hernandez
You know, there is indeed a creator god and a soul, but buddhism is a legit good path to find that god.
Camden Turner
What are your thoughts on Christianity user?
Dylan Young
Buddha came before Jesus though.
Levi Howard
>Theravada
The evangelicals of the buddhist world
Joshua Long
Anatta or not self just means things are more than their constituent elements. The extra layer of self is mind made, fabricated and willed. An illusion that's all. Let go of it
Ethan Morris
"Not more"
Jonathan Turner
Buddha has had many incarnations. Jesus may well have been an incarnation of Buddha. And by the way, on the other hand, let me remind you of this, however, that Buddha, is NOT a person. It is a state of being achieved by following the lifestyle of Siddharta.
Jose Bailey
I agree.
Samuel Barnes
Not very positive.
I don't hate Jesus though, I mostly hate what they made of his story. What I detest about this religion is the state of hysteria those ancient "prophecies" create. It's the ultimate "IDZ HABBENINGZ" religion. There is absolutely nothing going on bro.
Also I'm not into this whole pathos of a dying savior, save yourself!
Adam Allen
Are you sure this gooks aren't just arrogant subhumans who think they know better than God?
Jackson Williams
Theravada is far from evangelical. I just shill it here because it's a good alternative to the utter toxicity of Jow Forums
Benjamin Wood
That would be a gnostic take on Buddhism, yes
Jackson Bell
I hear John Oldman (a.k.a Jesus) studied with the Buddha, but apparently the sequel sucks though.
Matthew Richardson
If you learn an Asian language you will see that in many ways their culture is superior to the west
Charles Perry
It's a cuck religion. Think of it like cuck commies who couldn't change minds of others to adopt their ways of life style and ideology to give up on their luxury and materialist longings, so they made their cuck group and decided to live in isolation. And it's a good thing.
Chase Morgan
The thing with buddhism is that it originally was supposed to be a middle way, much like yoga, but it developed into fuckhuge asceticism.
Yoga is more mild, you aren't supposed to be very extremist, so you can just be a more mild buddhist and hope to realize God in this lifetime, buddhism is less dogmatic that yoga and thus closer to god hilariously, even tough it proclaims god hismelf will have to exit samsara at some point.
By personal experience, gnosticism is very close to the truth, there is a god, an atman, and a "Mara" that is, a god of hell. I already told my experiences with meditation on here a few times, basically I experienced the reward of meditation and then I noticed there seemed to be a dark god behind religions, much like gnosticism says.
Dylan Carter
Christianity has hundreds if not thousands of prophecies which have yet to be fulfilled. Buddhism has just 1 prophecy in Buddhism: that there will be a future Buddha to deliver further instructions.
Buddhism as well as Hinduism also have an unhealthy fixation with gold and idols (which look like fallen angels or Nephilim, which I'll just call Demons from now on). I like the 'meditation' aspect idea, but those religions stink of worshiping the machine we're in and avoid effective prayer versus all the things Christianity reveals and teaches.
Apparently Buddhism lets you fly, but the research I've found also requires selling your soul to the Demons all religions talk about: they will lift you up and make you feel special for that price except the moment you call out 'Jesus' those Demons let you down and run away. Same with the astral-traveling or channeling spirits to talk to "ascended masters" or whom ever you want to talk to: mention Jesus and they turn back into Demons, yell profanities and ultimately run away.
For me it seems like the further I investigate 'tall, the more everything comes back to Christianity as the most plausible and up to date way of understanding what is actually going on and what to do in most situations.
> Buddhism offers a way out.
Reading all the above: does it? Does it really?
Blood moon over Gitmo tomorrow, 2 years after Trumps inauguration: too many coincidences!
Caleb Evans
Honor and family, man, lost so long ago in the west.
Samuel Long
Interesting theory, but most Buddhist leaders don't buy it. They pretty much universally agree that Jesus Christ was enlightened and reached Nirvana, but don't claim that he has any connection to Buddha, earthly or otherwise (very important because it's kind of key that Buddha wasn't divine or connected to divinity in any way
Hunter Taylor
BAHAHAHA, yeah, i fucking doubt it. All you need to do is take a look at a gook to realize their inherent racial inferiority WHICH BY THE WAY also means that their ideas are retarded gook nonsense (for the most part).
Xavier Hughes
>Buddhism has just 1 prophecy in Buddhism
It's a latter injunction, not a prophecy of the buddha.
Alexander Lewis
This is correct
fuck off German
Jaxon Lewis
>that Buddha, is NOT a person. It is a state of being achieved by following the lifestyle of Siddharta.
this is also correct.
Ian Campbell
Where in the bible is there a red cow prophesy?
Nathan Young
Also protip: if you want to piss of Nepalis, just say Buddha was born in India. They will lose their shit.
Anthony Morris
>there's hints that the perfect state is actually just the normal state minus the craving or whatever.
So, in the absence of all desire or want what is there? Sounds like the Beatific Vision
Xavier Sanders
It's a jewish prophecy.
Lucas Walker
>Christianity has hundreds if not thousands of prophecies which have yet to be fulfilled
This is your mind on semitism
The hysteria created by those "prophecies" is appalling. This is why there are thousands of interpretations of these "prophecies", thousands of cults and subbranches, people calculating the day the times will end and other shit.
Absolute garbage, NOTHING is going on.
Christian Kelly
Gooks are mindless NPC's, all non-Whites are for the most part. It's not that they're "virtuous" but that they mindlessly adhere to certain patterns of behavior because frankly, most of them can't do anything else.
They're not pèople, in other words, they're not White.