Why have you not taken the ascetic pill yet? >simpler life with less distractions >healthier and clearer mind and body free from chemicals and suppliments >clean soul due to higher morals and practices >more aware of yourself and what it means to be human
Not just eastern stuff too, asceticism has no geography, it is simply living well.
Examples of ascetics >Diogenes of Sinope >Jesus Christ >Gautama Siddartha >Saint Francis of Assisi >Nietzsche
Also a halmark of moralistic and strong cultures, and has been present in >Western Culture >Islamc Culture >Indus Valley Culture >Eastern Culture >Incan Culture
Well Sup Forums? Are you ready to give up the frivolous things in your life?
Simply but comfortable. You don't need tons of clothes. You don't need tons of material things. You should make money - perhaps put it away for investing. But you just don't need all that much to live a happy, comfortable life. The most important thing is land and a nice home in which to raise a family.
Joshua Martinez
my goal is to eat rice or some other extremely healthy and cheap food for lunch, a banana for breakfast, but then whatever the hell I want for supper. I'm pretty close to achieving this goal, I screw it up very few times in a week.
Grayson Mitchell
Male ones
Nietzsche was a faggot
Jack Nelson
Jesus was not an ascetic. John the Baptist was. Jesus actually mentioned this at one point when responding to criticisms.
Ryan Green
Separate consumption goods from necessities. I'm an aesthetic ascetic. I still desire a suitable home for my family--and desire a family at that. I desire a safe and comfortable life for myself and my children. I do not desire hoarding cheap wares, concerning myself with brand name merchandise, luxury goods, or prestige for its own sake. I like clean simple spaces filed only with what I can manage to possess that does not impede my ability to remain unattached to trivial things.
You should be able to make an inventory of everything you own by memory. If you can't you own too much.
Julian Carter
Gautama Buddha rejected asceticism and instead discovered the middle path as a way to enlightenment. Your image is from a time before that, where he still thought, that absolute asceticism bordering on torture would be beneficial.
Henry Sanchez
*Middle way
Xavier King
>simpler life with less distractions >healthier and clearer mind and body free from chemicals and suppliments >clean soul due to higher morals and practices >more aware of yourself and what it means to be human
sounds good bro
Jackson White
>Examples of ascetics >Diogenes of Sinope
wow you are retarded. the dude was an edgy angry asshole that would jerk off naked in the marketplace and make fun of people all day.
far superior to your faggot ass. kill yourself OP.
Zachary Reyes
>>Jesus Christ he was a wino
Liam Thomas
>morals
Blake Sullivan
Ironic you'd make this thread on the last day of my fasting.
Evan Cox
>that absolute asceticism bordering on torture would be beneficial.
It is, the suffering brought him the clarity he needed to appreciate the full picture.
Jose Foster
fuck off
Zachary Thompson
Ascetism is a way of dealing with a bunch of problems with another problem. Buddha tried it and moved on. Jesus wasn't ascetic, he was more like an educated Henry Rollins with a part to play in the politics of his time. Diogenes was a fucken troll and a slob, possibly mentally ill, definitely tied up with all he rejected since every waking moment was a rejection. Nietzsche never won a fight and was terrible with women. St Francis of Assisi wanted to be the greatest soldier of all time, failed and decided to be the greatest holy man of all time. Basically the desire to be a rockstar about whatever.
Ryan Diaz
No point, we still die no matter what.
Brandon Gomez
It is hard to get oneself to fast these days. Lots of food everywhere and lots of stress conducive to eating.
I already am all for a minimalistic lifestyle though, for personal and political reasons. Also it saves money you can invest to... earn more money.
Austin Brooks
this guy gets it
Jordan Roberts
>Ascetism is a way of dealing with a bunch of problems with another problem. >Buddha tried it and moved on. Lord Gautama tried asceticism in its most extreme state, before realizing that even in asceticism too there should be moderation. He didn't 'move on' and abandon that way of living.
The kind of life he led after he fell short of starving himself to death would still be considered as ascetic by anyone's standards today.
Camden Sullivan
>Examples of ascetics >>Jesus Christ >>Gautama Siddartha
Comparing son of God with some shitty poo in the loo, good job
Ryder Diaz
The true asceticism for the modern world is to go without electronics.
Seriously, cut all the electric to your house for a week and it totally fucks you up.
Grayson Morales
>Examples of ascetics >>Jesus Christ >>Siddartha Gautama
Comparing some dead kike on a stick with the 9th incarnation of Vishnu, good job
Ian Baker
Some sadhus swear to sleep standing up for decades and do it. Bums that are taken care of need to make some struggle. Trying to keep your sanity by doing something insane isn't worth it.
Isaiah Green
Wait, wasn't Lord Krishna the incarnation of Vishnu? I thought Lord Gautama was a regular human like us.
Josiah Clark
>Lord Gautama was a regular human yes user just shitposted in reply to the other shitpost
Jack Bailey
Krishna is the 8th incarnation of Vishnu. Buddha is the 9th. It also can depend on who you ask.
Jeremiah Roberts
Go lick some pig testicles, Tariq.
Dominic Green
Are you honestly comparing that insane Yogi shit to just cutting the power?
Cutting the power also has the side effect of making you realise how dependent on electricity you are, which would help you prepare for a SHTF.
Bentley Morgan
>Trying to keep your sanity by doing something insane isn't worth it.
And yet, we're all here.
Julian Walker
Nietzsche? Fuck off, try saint simeon stylites
Julian Rodriguez
Their are multiple paths on the mountain user, why choose the anti social one
Jayden Cox
You can achieve the same by following dharma
Hudson Davis
>It also can depend on who you ask. That's why I got curious, I don't know who would consider him the encarnation of a god, if he himself stated he wasn't one.
Cooper Gomez
Like who gives a shit anyway, except for few stay in home moms and hippies this joke of a religion failed to spread beyond the poo in the loo borders anyway (and when you talk with young Indians they say they just don't just don't eat beef in front of their grandparents so they get the inheritance) , budhism made it to chinks but basically died when they started getting persecuted, really quality of a religion.
Robert Long
christcucks, kikes, and mudshits can't follow dharma.
Hunter Nelson
Why so angry?
John Walker
...
Wyatt Clark
>Buddha is the 9th. It also can depend on who you ask. Is that what hindus say then? Because that is not the case in any of the 3 major branches of buddhism. what, you think anyone here isn't aware, that islam is a violent and unwholesome set of beliefs? or are you automatically assuming that every german flag posts from the islamic caliphate of germanistan.
John Sanders
>asceticism >higher morals
I think you missed the point.
Cameron Price
Depends on the extent. Just saying selfsacrifice for its own sake doesn't lead anywhere, it's just busywork. There are real problems to tackle for most of us. But yeah it's beneficial if done in moderation, just as fasting is. Fair enough.
Christian Hernandez
>Well Sup Forums? Are you ready to give up the frivolous things in your life?
I am ready. But I have a wife. What should I do?
Robert Peterson
adopt a dolphin and raise him as your son
Adrian Nguyen
>Diogenes of Sinope >Jesus Christ >Gautama Siddartha >Saint Francis of Assisi >Nietzsche All of those people were crazy and lead horrible lives and left no children
Camden Roberts
Incarnations of Vishnu are not gods, like how Hercules in classical greek tradition is not a god. Strict Hindus will not list Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu and list Balaram as 8th and Krishna as 9th.
Fuck Christcucks, fuck white ethnostates, and fuck you. Just because we don't insist on converting every fucking nigger we meet to our variant of kikery doesn't make it less valid; it makes it better. Now fuck off.
It's what fucking wikipedia says. The fact that you even think of Buddhism as a religion with "branches" shows your lack of depth of understanding.
>Germanistan All germans are muslims now, and if you say otherwise I'll report you to the Chancellor herself.
Caleb Hall
am the same user, just posted from my phone before.
In a way. It doesn't need to be repeated by others though. A buddha is the first to (re)discover the middle way and noble eightfold path, so that others can follow it.
Gautama Buddha had a son
Jaxson Morales
>Buddha had a son >Argentinian pretends he knows things >Argentinian pretends he's white
Fuck spics.
Jaxson Nelson
Wow a single son of all these people in the list, I'm utterly BTFO
David Watson
I don't defend christcucks.
Fuck spics.
Carson Sanders
Your knowledge of Buddhism needs work m8
>Diogenes >spent his time jerking off in a barrel >horrible life
Easton Reyes
you are unnecessary hostile
There are different branches nowadays, that developed from pre-sectarian buddhism, that is just a fact. It has nothing to do with how I view it, or whether I think it's right or wrong. Many of those branches/traditions/schools hold incompatible views.
Carter Martinez
You need more food than 1 banana and some rice. Look up nutritionfacts for what actually constitutes a healthy vegan whole food diet. Eating too little will leave you a flake.
Noah Bennett
Gautama being incarnation of Vishnu is basically Hindus trolling Buddhists.
Think of it as WE WUZ BUDDHAS N SHIEEET
That being said, Krishna was literally a black man.
Jose Morgan
That's a very stupid 'argument' you think you just made.
John Fisher
>Why have you not taken the ascetic pill yet? Cause nigga a cheese burger taste good as fuck
Jaxson Johnson
I'm probably whiter than you fool.
Jordan Smith
I'm brown from India. You're a spic. Fuck spics.
Based Mongloid.
I'm enlightened.
The only incompatibilities that arise between different Buddhist "schools" come from regionalization during the spread of Buddhism out of India. The core philosophy developed by the Buddha himself is almost exactly how dharma, karma, and moksha are explained in classical Hinduism, with the major variation of Buddhism being the abandonment of caste being involved in the cycle of rebirth (which was always a relatively loose connection).
Cooper Johnson
Siddartha Gautama decided asceticism was predicated on pride.
Not sure if the legendary life account is what OP meant but didn't he decide not to die of starvation during some overkill fasting which made the ascetics reject him? Then he figures out asceticism is a polar extreme of the desire complex.
Hunter Perry
The community must be helped and improved. You ought to but are not personally responsible for this. What matters isn't looking into why we are here it's how best we can utilize what little time we have, inaction is death.
Tyler Young
>I'm brown from India. if it's brown, flush it down. poo in loo.
Bentley Rogers
>>trying to give up frivolous things >but I have a wife I see what you did there. ;^)
>There are different branches nowadays, That's true. Even though the goal is the same there are different aggrupations of people with different ways to achieve it. For example I got into it through the Karma Kagyu lineage, aka Diamond Way Buddhism.
What I wonder is, why is Lord Krishna pictured as a blue skin person, if he was black?
Also, unrelated, but there is a family over the US that due to a genetic mutation their skin is literally blue, look it up.
Samuel Garcia
What do you mean by "Jesus was not ascetic'' ?
Justin Anderson
Evola is a hack.
Jordan Smith
>mfw Poos are statistically the highest educated, highest income, highest IQ, lowest divorce rate, overall highest quality of life demographic living in the USA
How does it feel knowing even with all the white privilege in the world you still can't compete with me? How does it feel knowing you'll never know your heritage beyond "i'm white and a christcuck"? How does it feel seeing your women taught to score your very existence and prefer juicy Tyrone and Jose cock instead?
Anthony Howard
>>healthier and clearer mind and body free from chemicals and suppliments >healthier body >shows a pic of a starving person Ascesis might help you to have a happier life, but not a better life. It's pretty much the same as hedonism, being happy is not everything. There are things in the world you cannot not have and ascetics tell themself that they decided not to have this instead of trying to get it, becoming a better, stronger person in the process.
Parker Bell
>cannot not have *cannot have It actually changes the meaning
Christian Sanchez
Stop eating food.
Dylan Russell
Krishna is depicted being blue because he was dark-skinned; he wasn't actually a fucking nigger (as in from Africa). More iconographic portrayals of him actually use black for the skin color.
Do Sup Forums buddhists even read ramayana or mahabharat or is it just some trendy new cool thing to do shit?
Jace Scott
>that flag...
Lincoln Phillips
You do realise that a full third of the genealogy of morality was about rejecting asceticism?
idiot
Henry Martin
>he expects Sup Forums to have actually read Nietzsche Sad times, innit?
Jonathan Sanchez
>What I wonder is, why is Lord Krishna pictured as a blue skin person, if he was black?
Practicing the dharma is more important than reading scripture. It's like saying someone is a good Christian for reading the Bible and attending mass but the rest of the time violates or doesn't practice its precepts. I think buddhists would rather focus on the Dhammapada than the Mahabharat. A collection of aphorisms will do the trick at teaching what it is all about and it gives actionable advice that can be put to use immediately.
Coincidentally, that's how most of what we have of the stoic philosophy has reached our days too, as aphorisms. I personally think this is no coincidence and that buddhism and stoicism share many traits.
Nathaniel Mitchell
Yes, but community isn't state, community isn't corporation, community is the people around you you interact with daily. Very often what the state or corporation demands actually harms the community more than anything, I feel no obligation to serve the state, or a corporation, I only feel an obligation to do good to those who I know and meet in daily life. If everybody thought this way, we could live a more healthy and wholesome life, but rather we have many people addicted to wealth and power stabbing their own community in the back for a quick buck all too often.