Anonymous
11/3/2025, 1:58:20 AM
No.24851036
>>24851026
Buddhism rejects dogma because it understands that all fixed beliefs are just attachments in disguise. Every ideology, every rigid system of thought is just another trap—another illusion mistaken for truth. Unlike religions that demand blind faith in doctrine, Buddhism is a method, a way of seeing, not a set of commandments to obey. Even its core teachings, from the Four Noble Truths to the Eightfold Path, are not meant to be worshipped but used as tools, and then discarded once their purpose is fulfilled. The moment someone clings to Buddhism as an identity, as a set of absolute truths, they have already missed the point. That’s why it doesn’t try to impose a single answer or force a universal meaning onto existence—it only points the way and leaves the journey to the one walking it.
This anti-dogmatic nature extends even to nirvana itself. Unlike heaven or salvation, nirvana isn’t something to be described, grasped, or defined—it is beyond language, beyond concepts, beyond the limits of the mind trying to contain it. The moment someone tries to put it into words, they have already reduced it to something it is not. This is why Buddhist texts constantly negate—nirvana is not this, not that, not a place, not an experience, not a void, not existence. Because to define it would be to turn it into another illusion, another attachment. It is not something to be believed in, but something to be realized, something that can only be known by direct experience. Unlike other spiritual traditions that trap people in words and dogma, Buddhism refuses to let even its highest truth become a cage.
Buddhism rejects dogma because it understands that all fixed beliefs are just attachments in disguise. Every ideology, every rigid system of thought is just another trap—another illusion mistaken for truth. Unlike religions that demand blind faith in doctrine, Buddhism is a method, a way of seeing, not a set of commandments to obey. Even its core teachings, from the Four Noble Truths to the Eightfold Path, are not meant to be worshipped but used as tools, and then discarded once their purpose is fulfilled. The moment someone clings to Buddhism as an identity, as a set of absolute truths, they have already missed the point. That’s why it doesn’t try to impose a single answer or force a universal meaning onto existence—it only points the way and leaves the journey to the one walking it.
This anti-dogmatic nature extends even to nirvana itself. Unlike heaven or salvation, nirvana isn’t something to be described, grasped, or defined—it is beyond language, beyond concepts, beyond the limits of the mind trying to contain it. The moment someone tries to put it into words, they have already reduced it to something it is not. This is why Buddhist texts constantly negate—nirvana is not this, not that, not a place, not an experience, not a void, not existence. Because to define it would be to turn it into another illusion, another attachment. It is not something to be believed in, but something to be realized, something that can only be known by direct experience. Unlike other spiritual traditions that trap people in words and dogma, Buddhism refuses to let even its highest truth become a cage.