Christianity has hit a wall when it comes to offering people a real sense of meaning today. The way it splits God from nature and the mind from the body just doesn't hold up anymore, especially since science, which Christianity ironically helped pave the way for, has pretty much dismantled that whole worldview. As a result, a lot of people are left feeling empty or nihilistic, stuck with a moral system that's life-denying. The focus on one true God and one chosen group has made it hard to embrace other perspectives, and the idea of some big final judgment day feels out of step with how we actually understand the world now. On the other hand Buddhism, with its idea of everything being connected, feels way more relevant. It doesn't ask you to believe in some sky daddy but invites you to find meaning in the here and now, in the actual stuff of life. It's not about guilt and salvation later, but about awareness and balance in the present.

>>509446537 (OP)
All religions are unnecessary
You don’t need to force yourself into believing in one for your qol to go up

>>509446537 (OP)
Buddhism is not about awareness, it's about analyzing suffering.

>>509446537 (OP)
Isn't Buddhism also ultimately life-denying?
Basically life is suffering so you should let go of earthly desires, achieve Nirvana, break out of Samsara and stop reincarnating.
Nobody hates life more than a Buddhist.
Only Graeco-Roman paganism and Nordic paganism were life-affirming.
Judaism too, to some extent. Which is why Jews are so successful (and sly and treacherous) in the earthly realm, since they lack a clear notion of Heaven.

>>509447136
It's not about denying or affirming, the Buddhist stance is simply if you analyize the human condition you find the vinegar of life is bitter, but that's just a the base point.
It's honestly not about denying life so much as denying cope. Coping always builds up a debt of fantasy and reality-bending, and if its shattered, the life you built on it crumbles. Buddhism is simply about finding solutions if you start building in the firmest foundations.

>>509447136

Life is great, especially if you have few desires.

The goal is to replace sensual pleasures with a superior form of pleasure, and than transcend the desire for pleasure altogether, thus being eternally at peace.

Babies play with poop, children play with toys, adults play with sensual pleasures, and Aryans play with the mind

>>509447136
>Nobody hates life more than a Buddhist.
The Word-Honored One was very clear that he was not a nihilist and was opposed to nihilistic interpretations. He posed the Middle Way, which accepts neither the extreme position of the spiritualists which say that everything is eternal, or the nihilists, which say that everything is essentially nothing. He thought both positions were wrong. When the Buddha taught the impermanence of all things, the nonexistence of an enduring self, ,and interdependent or conditional arising, he was surmounting and transcending various dualistic extremes such as permanent/transient, being/nothingness, pleasure/suffering. He taught the non-dual way of awakening to the real nature of things, which is provisional and changing.

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>>509448231
>Life is great, especially if you have few desires.
Isn't that, in itself, a cope?

>>509448587
So far as I know, he did try asceticism for a while and then gave it up.
Though ultimately he leans more toward life-denial than life-affirmation.
He seemed to believe the game was rigged from the start and not worth playing, since we all grow old and sick and die.
His message was ultimately nihilistic, although wrapped in more cheerful and optimistic ribbons than asceticism.

>>509446537 (OP)
>sense of meaning
Buddhism is 0% about a sense of "meaning". go away

>>509446537 (OP)
The bible has a lot of good stuff.

Philippians 3:7
Luke 17:21
James 4:4
Ezekiel 20:32
Galatians 1:10
Psalm 1:1–2
Jeremiah 10:1-10
Isaiah 6:5
Romans 12:2
John 4:13–14
Matthew 16:26
Isaiah 55:2
Psalm 127:1
2 Corinthians 4:18
Luke 12:15
Jeremiah 2:13
2 Corinthians 5:7

>>509449298

No, it's a remedy

>>509451349
Oops, left out Matthew 6:33
>But seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven

>>509451710
That kills the patient :^)

>>509446537 (OP)
from the Hebrew lens there is Hamism, Shemism and Japhethism. and Buddhism would be aligned with either Shem or Japheth. probably Japheth if not Abrahamic, and accepted and worshipped by Shemitic nations.

i see a lot of parallels between the holy ones described in the Bible and the various Buddhas. and not because the Heebs copied anyone. its just similar accounts of the same history.

in the Bible we see the wise and holy men often going out alone into nature to connect with God seeking answers or enlightenment. from Moses to Jesus, you name it.. Elijah probably too, all the key figures did what Buddha did and for the exact same reasons. enlightenment = God's will. the understanding of righteousness over wickedness. not the deep end stuff of total detachment and loss of identity. thats what happened once they lost sight of God. but Abrahamism represents what Buddhism is about, but without the disregard for God. for The Father... for the true and real Buddha. Noah.. he was the one who was enlightened. the one that all others had to come to understand and follow after. it was his understanding that was enlightenment. and it was passed on and entrusted to Shem, and Abraham, etc and so on.

Abraham lived at the time just after the flood, he would be considered a sort of demigod. and he was born into a world where the gods had recently died and so they had lost their direction. do we follow after Ham? Zeus? the Devil? or do we seek to reconnect with God and Noah? Ra? Odin? Anu? El? and so the Buddhists were resisting against the temptations and ways of the world created by the devil, Ham. how to cleanse and purify yourself.. how remove all temptations of sin, as to dodge suffering and death? what is the path to life? oh thats right.. its Jesus Christ.. the narrow and difficult path.

the goal of meditation and enlightenment is exactly the same as repentance. to become purified and holy. cleansed. free from sin and anything that clouds your judgement.