I'm contemplating Mahayana. It seems to be true, or at least gives me really really good feelings. And feelings don't come out of nowhere ya know. So what do you think, mahayana followers and non-followers?

>>40740101 (OP)
>It seems to be true
Sure.
What holds beings in the endless cycle of samsara is the attachment to their own desire and happiness. If you let go of that you can escape to cycle and be free. The path of the Bodhisattva is about replacing your ego with the needs of others.

>>40741636
I see what you mean however in the course of a reddit conversation about this same topic I have now decided to drop Buddhism because the lack of focus on righteous behaviour and virtue led me to conclude that Buddhism cannot be the way of god if it's followers are such cretins.

>>40741645
I would say that you don't have to be a "buddhist" to follow bodhisattva principles.
When Jesus says "love your enemies" it's also about going beyond your ego.
True spirituality is not bound to 1 religion.

>>40741659
Indeed it is. And that religion is philosophy, the art of living without rules and dogmas. That's my opinion. I think the only path is the true path there is not more than one answer to the ultimate question.

>>40741671
Philosophy has a lot of different view on life and the world. And many crazy ones. Just take Nietzsche...not stupid, but as a philosophy for life it's useless. Like, he says that power is everything, and whatever gives man more power is good. edgelord.jpg

>>40741677
Yeah Nietzsche is a edgelord. I don't follow him much. I believe in the philosophy of direct intuition, and then insight into reality. Seeing everything as it really is, a concept mentioned in the gnostic apocrypha also. But not that I'm a gnostic. But I feel like my path has been set. Do you have any true beliefs you want to impart to me? Now is the time and place.

>>40741691
>Do you have any true beliefs you want to impart to me?
No.

>>40741659
>When Jesus says "love your enemies"
That was terrestrial corruption, by his enemies.

>>40741700
Ok, but then can you just tell me what you believe? This is pretty bad, you don't even have insight worth to share then what did you do all these years practicing? Pratyekabuddha?

>>40741704
>can you just tell me what you believe?
I believe in Amitabha and his Pure Land.

>>40741727
Do you believe in a god?

>>40741734
Yes, I think gods (Devas) do exist. And I think that Brahma created this cosmos. But I don't worship the "mundane gods". I respect them, but they can't help me with liberation from samsara. But Amitabha can.

>>40741745
Actual truth for you. The Buddha believed in a god, he called it the supreme spirit, who is a product and part of the mind.

>>40741767
The Buddha (Gautama) was teaching about the "true nature of all things" that is "empty of self". It's called "shunyata" what translates to "emptiness". It's a difficult concept because it's not just a void, it's "beyond existence and non-existence".
I just go with Amitabha and the Pure Land.

>>40741789
Did you miss what I said? Buddha believed in god, he just believed mind is even more supreme than god.

>>40741792
Maybe you study buddhist philosophy a bit before we go on with such conversations...

>>40741800
No. You seem to deny what is in front of your face. Read the second chapter of the lankavatara sutra, where Buddha says, supreme spirit and atom and so on, is part of the mind. Something like that. What does this mean, it means he believed in the supreme spirit.

>>40740101 (OP)
>It seems to be true, or at least gives me really really good feelings. And feelings don't come out of nowhere ya know.
Woman detected.

Did you know that the more you sprinkle your text with indian gibberish terms and the more complex they sound, the closer you are to oneness? Now, don't get mad at me for saying this because I'm you after all.