Society can no longer fulfil the demand for “meaning and purpose” in human life, because both avenues to achieve this - idealism/spirituality on one hand, and materialism/sensualism on the other - have now been irrevocably destroyed.
The only path that remains is to transcend desire and duality altogether. Those who cannot do this will perish in the coming age.

>>508794219 (OP)
>you will own nothing and you will be happy

The Buddha pill is sublime, easily accessible, and immediate in it's results

Self guided tour of the Buddhas teaching: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/index.html

May all beings be inwardly happy!

>>508794219 (OP)
I have and it's absolutely what saved me. I would be a pretty sour apple without these teachings.

>>508794219 (OP)
>you will be nothing and you will be happy
Thanks but I prefer Christ who wants to put me on a throne alongside His

>>508794219 (OP)
>Why haven’t you taken the Buddha pill?
Because I am not brown, female, or homosexual.

>>508794219 (OP)
I don't recommend it for most people. It's very 'heady' and requires lots of study, abstract concepts etc. You need 130 IQ + to really grasp it. Most 'buddhists' are just plebs that follow doctrine and dogma, and never achieve awakening.

The Taoist path is 'easier' and doesn't really emphasise escape as much as it does living in harmony. Doesn't require intellectual study or adherence to any doctrine, really.

>>508794219 (OP)
Buddhists don't believe in the human soul. It's wrong on its face.

>>508795714
this is exactly what I'm talking about. People aren't intelligent enough to understand anatta/anatman. Not even most buddhist sects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP4pMU7frQU

>>508795714
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEnb2cFWKBs

>>508795604

1. The eightfold path is actually called the Aryan Eightfold Path. The Buddha teaches us how to become a true Aryan.

2. The Buddha teaches us to stay away from women because they are evil.

3. Sexually deviant behavior is a violation of the third precept, to refrain from sexual misconduct

Buddhist culture is absolutely fantastic. There's a dude who is a living saint who used his mighty dong and sleeping with women to ward off evil spirits

>>508795714
Nirvana Sutra preaches that Buddha is the True Self and he's Eternal and the same as Dharma (Morals)

>>508796399
This is right. One way of reading the Dhammapada is, to call anyone Aryan who follows the Dharma. It's a little different from Hinduism because basically if you're able to encounter a Mahayana Sutra you have already planted the roots of Aryan nobility. The proper translation of "Arhat" is "Aryan" but Jews changed it.

>>508796565
fellow Mahayana understander.

>>508794219 (OP)
Where my Vipassanna bros at?

>>508796673
what's the single most powerful mahayana sutra, in your opinion? I've always thought either the Lotus or Tathagatagarbha sutra. Specifically certain passages.

>>508795714
Wtf, it teaches you that you are a soul animating a body, it’s the worldy ”soul” the ego, that doesn’t exist.
Why are you ego-driven retards so dumb? Don’t you want to connect to your immortal being, free from pain and suffering? Sucks to be retarded I guess…

>>508795217
Christianity teaches exactly the same thing

>>508795604
>American
>Not a faggot tranny
Yeah sure, tranny

>>508798430
No, it doesn't. Buddhism is the extent that human spirituality can understand without God's revelation. Christianity is the bridge between God and Man.

I did and it has benefited me a lot.

>>508798615
Christ is mortal, so he can't be a god

>>508799070
So do you assert that Christ had a human father? Are you one of those "Mary was fucked by a roman soldier and lied to her husband about it" types?

>>508795714
They don't believe in an eternal soul, after your reincarnation cycle ends and you are enlightened the your soul dissolves in the eternal void. Thus putting and end to all of this f o r e v e r

Because Buddhism is wrong on principle. For a properly healthy individual, the mere fact of existing is a source of pleasure, and such individual would not want to achieve Nirvana, but to engage indefinitely in the Cycle of Death and Rebirth. I've been almost there, I've seen a faint sign of it.
The real question is, is it possible, under the current circumstances of the world, to produce individuals that possess such Great Health?

Just wage cuck child, free your Mind, and transcend all worries about minimum wage and paid overtime

>>508799750
Budha didn't focus what pleasure is more focused on what suffering is. For him it was merely absence of suffering

>>508799750
This is why I believe Christianity is right and Buddhism is the limit of mankind. Buddhism recognizes the spirit of man and that there are evil forces that want his soul. They recognize that the best path forward is escape, but they lack the divine revelation that makes escape possible. The best they can hope for is for complete stillness of spirit. Christ taught instead that he was the missing link, the "way". In a sense, Christ is nirvana calling and showing the true path to righteousness. The main difference of course is that it's not escape from the wheel, it's escape from damnation.

>>508799070
he isnt since he came back after dying

>>508800085
/pol is christian and i can prove it

Replace each instance of "chad" with God.
Replace "femboy" and "trans" with Jesus.
Replace "psyop" with Holy Spirit.
Replace "women" with Satan.
Replace "shitskin" with Man

>>508794219 (OP)
>yeah man there is no "I", it's all an illusion man, there's only awareness, yeah
>then why should I be good? Since it's all an illusion I might as well do whatever I want. Why should I follow you 8ball path?
>Uh you just have to! Buddha said so!

>>508800273
this faggot didn't read the thread.

>>508799750
that's really true only for children

>>508795604
>Christian casually breaks the teachings of Christ
>walks away

>>508800273
because when your eyes open and sensibilities change, so does your morality

>>508794219 (OP)
Buddha was a deadbeat faggot.

>>508794219 (OP)
Christianity is pretty much Buddhism in a western context instead of an eastern hindu context.

>>508801485
What happens when a jew dies?

>>508801848
A buddhist achieves Nirvana.

>>508794219 (OP)
I agree with much of Buddhism, especially Vajrayana, but I lean towards Hinduism.

>>508801838
>western context
You mean in context of some semitic people who could only understand power and authority. That's why the bootlicking fraction took over society and not the mystics.

>>508794749
>life is suffering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0&list=RDGd9OhYroLN0&start_radio=1

>>508801838
kinda yea, certainly Gnosticism is, kinda

Most people will never see it that way, however, an instead worship the man jesus

>>508797350
Lotus Sutra. I'm a firm believer that you can get to Enlightenment with just this one Sutra. Not that you'd want to, since it preaches the Bodhisattva Vehicle. It really relaxes me, the nice thing about it is it's very easy on the surface and it doesn't force you to think. But if you want to dwell on symbolism it's very dense. A Great Work of theology

>>508803210

>Life has inevitable suffering

>>508799750
We believe that the Saha-World is the Buddha's Pure Land, and we take the Great Vehicle to reincarnate over and over again, because nothing phases us, and the teaching is the most important thing

>>508800085
>Muh Jesus
>Muh damnation
If he was such a moral sage how come you only preach Jesus and damnation, and not a Moral Teaching?

Here then,
Form is no other than emptiness,
Emptiness no other than form.
Form is only emptiness,
Emptiness only form.
Feeling, thought, and choice,
Consciousness itself,
Are the same as this.
All things are by nature void
They are not born or destroyed
Nor are they stained or pure
Nor do they wax or wane
So, in emptiness, no form,
No feeling, thought, or choice,
Nor is there consciousness.
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body,
mind;
No colour, sound, smell, taste,
touch,
Or what the mind takes hold of,
Nor even act of sensing.

>>508803701
Are you into mahayana school of thought?

>>508794219 (OP)
I have, and won't regret it.

Form is no other than emptiness,
Emptiness no other than form.
Form is only emptiness,
Emptiness only form.

天皇陛下万歳

>>508803553
I have to read Lotus Sutra some day. For now, Diamond Sutra is my favorite religious text.

>>508804345
>>508804425
I'm glad people with thick skulls are also in on this.

Because most of /pol/ is stuck in a Bronze Age tier way of thinking that, ironically enough, makes them very similar to jews. Basically in the Bronze age there's no right or wrong, there's only application of might and the weak submitting to the strong, and subterfuge.

In Buddhism objective qualities are delineated, it's not
>what's beneficial to me, and bad for my enemies
It's
>what is essentially good?
A question that Bronze age troglodytes never ask themselves, as they're stuck in samsara and proud of it.

>>508794219 (OP)
Burn yourself alive if you like buddhism so much faggot.

>>508804689
päästä yhteys tyhjyyteen, tyhjyydestä päähän, päästä yhteyteen

>>508804715
The irony.

>>508794219 (OP)
About 20-odd years ago, I read a bunch of books on buddhism and concluded that whilst it's pretty cool in many ways, ultimately, it seemed to be about finding "enlightenment" (basically contentment) through making yourself retarded.

I can't remember why I thought that exactly, but that was the conclusion I came to, and when I visited Thailand around 15 years later, my suspicion was fully validated.

>>508794219 (OP)
>nihilistic dicksucking faggot philosophy for terminally butthurt vegans
no

>>508794219 (OP)
The Buddha pill is the ultimate redpill.

>>508804991
>that was the conclusion I came to, and when I visited Thailand around 15 years later, my suspicion was fully validate
Thailand isn't real Buddhism 99% of the time. Unironically actual Buddhism died out thousands of years ago just as the Buddha said it would

The Thai people worship Brahma and devas for the most part. The few "monks" there devote themselves to making amulets, doing exorcisms and casting spells. They couldn't even read their own Pali scriptures until Europeans arrived and translated the suttas for them. The Theravada monks would just chant small segments of Pali they thought had magical effects, not knowing the words they spoke. This is why Mahayanists called them "shravakas" aka "hearers"

Mahayanists on the other hand are just Hindus with a different vocabulary
>Atman is Dharmakaya
>Jiva is Tathagatagarbha
>Moksha is Nirvana

>>508794219 (OP)
noo we have to accept jesus as our savior or be edgy atheists

>>508795714
Yes, they do. How could reincarnation work without it? And what's the point of a soul, which is leaving the body, if there is no reincarnation?

>>508797096
Beware of the vipassanna movement, which is a modern misreading of the Suttas. The "noting" exercise may push you toward psychosis if you do it too much. Instead, practice the jhanas, as the Buddha said.

>>508803553
chapter 16 of the lotus sutra unironically fixes everything metaphysically wrong with Christianity.

not one and only chosen son of god sent to one place and time but a having been everywhere on all worlds throughout all time, appearing and teaching according to the needs and ability to understand of the beings.

>>508795714
Yes, but are being obtuse about it, it doesn't believe in the human soul as Christianity because it believes the "soul" is an illusion, yet buddhism do not believe in illusion as "fake" more like a faulty perception. Like"souls" are a faulty perception of an even greater spiritual source

>>508798430
pretty much all religions have the same nondual core message. some are or have become much less clear over the ages though which is why it's so easy for modern believers to mistake the map for the territory. it's analogous to believing that the music trying to describe silence is actual silence

ollakseen on olevankin oltava, olemisen oivaltava oikea olkoonkin olemattaman olematon ollakseen on olevankin oltava, oivalluksesta ohittamattomaan ohitetun oikeuteteen, oikein oi oikeus ohittamattomalla oikeutuksellaan, orastavan olemattomuuden oikopolulla, ollakseen oiva.

>>508805792
>The "noting" exercise
Good thing I always found shit like this mentally exhausting. A lot of modern practices are really just irritating.

>>508800273
Retards like you like talking about topics they don't know about and I really don't know why.

>>508805867
> it believes the "soul" is an illusion

that's what most 'buddhists' believe yes, as the IQ of the average Buddhist is quite low.

Anatman doesn't mean there is no self. It is a way of negating what is not the self.

The buddha-nature doctrine is hard to grasp for midwits. They are better off with christcuckery.

>>508801838
>Christianity is pretty much Buddhism in a western context instead of an eastern hindu context
Sincretism between east and west is always interesting, but it will never never never be true, at its very theological core Buddhism and Semitic religions believe in different things which are irreconcilable

>>508800085
How is he the key, exactly? How is he going to "save you"? And from what? Have you ever thought about the fact Christ was a mystic, just like the Buddha, and that they more or less taught the same thing?

>>508799344
I've communicated with spirits. Buddhism is bullshit for these reasons. If there was any truth to it, those practices/beliefs are not current buddhism.

>>508806239
it is for midwits that have not attained the dharma-eye. The only thing irreconcilable is the doctrine that most adhere to. Their entire understanding of the doctrine is misunderstood.

>>508806380
BABY bitch

>>508805606
Yeah that sounds like a reasonable assessment, anon. Although I would posit, that the monks there are just as much interested in dealing crystal meth and gambling, once you get to know the place a little better.

I would always joked, that the country should replace their golden buddha statues with giant golden dollar signs.

>>508806226
>The buddha-nature doctrine is hard to grasp for midwits. They are better off with christcuckery
I don't think it's that extremely hard, the problem is that I'm order to understand it you have to erase (at least temporary) the concept of soul that the west and Christianity have imbued into society, and that's extremely hard for most, learning is one thing, editing one's knowledge is an entirely different and harder skill

>>508799344
after your reincarnation cycle ends and you are enlightened the your soul dissolves in the eternal void

incorrect understanding, completely wrong. IF you arrive at the 'void' understanding, you are only half way there. It is THIS, right now. It has always been this, it will never not be this. It doesn't 'end' in some eternal void. THIS is immortal.

>>508806473
>Their entire understanding of the doctrine is misunderstood.
Yes, but in turn this have been the base for western esoterism since Rosicrucianism, last 300 years of western esoterism is based on misinterpret buddhism and Hinduism, somehow creating something different than both Christianity and Buddhism

>>508806569
I think some knowledge of the body is also necessary. It is the temple after all. That includes its subtle energy.

Kuin kuinka koska kuultuaan, kumartaen kuuluttajaa, kuinka koskaan kauan kovinkaan kimmallusta kavahtamatta kauhea kirkosto kimahtaa, kuinka kamalasti kerrotte kaukaisista kerhoista, kumma kirkollinen

>>508806380
Buddhism as practiced in Asia actually focuses mostly on communing with and influencing spirits. You're only familiar with western secular Buddhism, which is both largely academic and influenced by Protestant Christianity

Here's a good article on the subject-
https://vividness.live/protestant-buddhism

>>508806561
>Although I would posit, that the monks there are just as much interested in dealing crystal meth and gambling, once you get to know the place a little better
I've heard that this has always been a problem. Life is tough and people have always joined the sangha as a means to escape wageslavery

>>508806569
>, the problem is that I'm order to understand it you have to erase (at least temporary) the concept of soul that the west and Christianity have imbued into society, and that's extremely hard for most

ok, i can somewhat agree with that. Tthe tendency when studying buddhism is to lean towards nihilism, incorrect understandings and interpretations of 'emptiness' 'no self', void, stuff like that.

The mahayana school essentially solves this, somewhat, yes, but I have come across very few that really 'get it'.

That's why I practice Taiji and talk in Taoist terms. Much simpler honestly, more down to earth with no rush towards enlightenment.