Are these guys legit? Their dharma talks seem a bit too globohomo to me. Especially Ajahn Brahm. It's just be kind to each other, let go of things, just relax...I am not sure if it is genuine Buddhism or a Westernized version

>>40582060 (OP)
Let those retards alone. They do not bother anyone. Christcucks on the other hand...

>>40582060 (OP)
I strongly advise you against shittalking entire Buddhist monastic orders

>>40582060 (OP)
>not sure if it is genuine Buddhism or a Westernized version
Imagine the following: on your travels you come upon the unfathomable: the edge of the world. Not even in the "flat earth" sense, just a place that seems like it shouldn't be reachable because there is an edge, but you still did come here via normal roads, at most one or two turns you're not quite sure how or where they went. However, you are here now, and upon looking around, you discover an enormous poultry farm, perpetually producing and dispensing staggering amounts of chicken onto a conveyor belt stretching as far as you can see, along which various Waldos and other machines and contraptions load what you can only describe as "a giant's fistful" of feathery, clucking, growling, and cackling biomass into the most striking parts of this whole assembly: small sky-scraper sized trebuchets, dozens, if not hundreds of them, line the impossible edge of the world you viscerally *know* must a sphere, and every few moments all of the trebutchets in sequence fire their load of chickens into the void. Beholden to the magnificent terror of this outrageous display, it takes a while -- moments, minutes, millenia, all pale in the face of the avian absurdity in front of you -- before you notice a single sign, marred with dust and feathers and guano; steeling yourself, you wipe it clean, and read the sentence that finally, conclusively breaks you:

To get to the other side

>>40582060 (OP)
Ajahn Brahm often gives talks that are more suited for a family gathering after a long work week, and the atmosphere and nature of the gatherings do seem that way. I find Thanissaro Bhikku’s talks to be more concise and laser-focused on the dhamma, often bringing the topic back to skillful qualities and their cultivation towards the goal of nibbana multiple times in a given talk, and relating it to the topic he’s talking about, be it greed, anger, lust, delusion, aversion and so on. He references the suttas frequently and has very little of the jokes that Brahm entertains with.

>>40582194
Did you write that yourself? That got a chuckle out of me.

>>40582278
gotem i actually just farted into an llm :^)

>>40582477
The AI revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>>40582149
What nonsense. Any religion that has reached a country where it's not indigenous is a bothersome one, whether it's Islam, Christianity or Buddhism.

>>40582060 (OP)
It's okay I guess, just a little fruity and gay but nothing wrong with it really.

>>40582060 (OP)
>just be kind to each other, let go of things, just relax.
>Just

>>40582188
What are they gonna do, meditate me away? Give me bad karma or something?

>>40582666
They wield the power of the cosmos. They can clap you out of existence if it's cosmically justified.

>>40582060 (OP)
Long robes/clothing like that is for hypocrites.
>Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

>>40582149
All you're doing is proving who is the true God, only the true God triggers you so much.

Some gayfaggot spiritual LARP for dead fools who hate the truth doesn't bother the world because it's of the world.
>John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

>>40582621
>>40582149
Okay reddit.

Your state-funded religion of gaytheism and its science-denying creation myths of the big bang and evolutionism which violate all the laws of science, and the prophets and teachers of this state-religion are the biggest tumors and cancers in all of mankind.

You guys are the biggest hypocrites, force your religious blind faith beliefs and your creation myth which is built upon it on everyone through schools and paid for with money you steal from me via the state, then you act like you're not exactly what you criticize all the time, when you're actually worse.

>>40582838
I wish you jesus fags would just mind your own business and fuck off.

>>40582844
I'm not atheist though. I'm just a guy of Swedish descent who grieves the loss of authentic Swedish religion. You're gonna have to reformulate a more coherent criticism against me. I just think that religions were always meant to be the cultural extension of a people's spirituality. Internationalized religions like Christianity, Islam, etc are the real tumors menacing humanity. I'm not even a white supremacist, if that's you're next angle of rhetoric. I think even Africans would do better for themselves if they had been able to retain their authentic African religions instead of being spiritually colonized by Christian Europeans and Arabic Muslims.

>>40582666
Checked

>>40583301
>You're gonna have to reformulate a more coherent criticism against me.

>>40583324
That's the true reddit response. You were caught in your own misunderstanding and now all you have left are brainrot memes.

>>40583334
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>>40582060 (OP)
>It's just be kind to each other, let go of things, just relax.

True

>>40584040
>nothing left to say
I accept your concession, idiot. Go ahead and type something else since you seem to be the kind of pathetic loser who simply needs to have the last word. I won't respond anymore. Also feel free to samefag pretending to be me so you can "win" your idiotic "debate", loser.

Theravada Buddhism is an extremely nihilistic religion that involves destroying the will to live

>>40584244
it's not that lmao

>>40583261
Jesus probably does too if he still exists in some sense and cares about the religion based on him in some sense, considering that at least the 4chan variety of "christian" are the far opposite of persuasive as his self-proclaimed representatives, just relentlessly, gleefully insulting everyone and everything that offends them.

>>40584244
living is a nihilistic state that destroys the will to live

>>40584284
Well, it seems to be either that or larping with the most obviously fake, paper-thin caricature of "love" imaginable.

>>40584316
that's just christian "love" though
like how a troon "loves" women

>>40584411
True, the issue is probably inherent to most versions of Christianity. Once someone accepts the idea that a perfectly benevolent and/or just God would sentence people to eternal torment at all, let alone for the crime of having mistaken beliefs about ancient history and metaphysics, your moral reasoning is cooked.

Try not to be "holier than thou" it drives people away from any faith; as I will as well. <3

>>40584434
I don't even capitalize christianity anymore, it's like messianism or evangelism to me... belongs more in the DSM-6 than in the annals of history.

>>40582060 (OP)
the goal of evil and the goal of good seem to be to consolidate everything

>>40584411
>>40584434
On second thought I take my "True" back. I don't know how a troon loves women or how that's supposed to relate to christian love, so I'm not sure what I was agreeing with there.

>>40584500
well I sure don't take my analogy between christians and troons back lol

>>40582060 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/@HillsideHermitage

>>40584569
How did you get this picture of me.