This is now a komfy kot thread

Whats the deal with Buddhism?

>Theravada
A very life denying iteration in which the biggest plotholes were intentionally left unfilled by the Buddha because they weren't "productive" to know or understand. You know, questions like does one continue to experience in parinibbana after becoming an Arahant? Theravadins will often tell you no, but if thats the case, its just death.

>Mahayana
I'll admit, Madhyamaka in particular is deeply interesting, especially because you can observe, right now, some of the fundamentals of Buddhist emptiness, like the interdependence of all objects. But a lot of it is genuine cope, especially when you get into Vajrayana. China, which produced many major Sutras Mahayana practitioners follow and study, also produced a ton of just straight up slop that was written with a clear agenda.
Vajrayana (the esoteric subset of Mahayana)is worse, they have oracles who, to this day, are adding on new rules, or adding exceptions to pre-existing rules because of dreams they had. Originally Tibetan monks couldn't handle money, or accept money for teachings until a Tulku had a dream and said it was fine, which Patrul Rinpoche specifically points out as a critical turning point for corruption in their system.

Many Chinese practitioners for example don't eat onions, garlic, etc because a sutra written 800 years after the Buddha's death, but is still attributed to the Buddha, says that eating non-bland food will trigger you to become overly attached to life and that you should give up adding flavor to your meals. The Mahayana cope for this is that the original Buddha stored all of his teachings in an alternate dimension for the "real practitioners", which is why he taught none of it originally. That, historically, has to be one of the biggest copes in human history. Like just admit a lot of this shit was made up by randoms after the fact.

>>21518348
Calm down there Nigel.
I'm just pointing out the similarities between the meat pie and the Galician empanada.
The war was started by the OP and it's a losing war for you simple as.

>the might of the british empire
Your national dish is Tikka Masala bud.
It's over.