Why aren't you a Buddhist?

Why aren't you a Buddhist?

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Not realising that you are God

why are you

Because everyone on here is furious at other cultures, and Buddhism wouldn't fit well with hating women and minorities

whoa- only if you're white.

Daily reminder: Christ is the only path to salvation, and America is a Christian nation.

1. All existence is dukkha. The word dukkha has been variously translated as ‘suffering’, ‘anguish’, ‘pain’, or ‘unsatisfactoriness’. The Buddha’s insight was that our lives are a struggle, and we do not find ultimate happiness or satisfaction in anything we experience. This is the problem of existence.

2. The cause of dukkha is craving. The natural human tendency is to blame our difficulties on things outside ourselves. But the Buddha says that their actual root is to be found in the mind itself. In particular our tendency to grasp at things (or alternatively to push them away) places us fundamentally at odds with the way life really is.

3. The cessation of dukkha comes with the cessation of craving. As we are the ultimate cause of our difficulties, we are also the solution. We cannot change the things that happen to us, but we can change our responses.

4. There is a path that leads from dukkha. Although the Buddha throws responsibility back on to the individual he also taught methods through which we can change ourselves, for example the Noble Eightfold Path.

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Without agony, there is no joy. Without evil, there is no good. Without chaos, there is no order. Without death, there is no life. Without man, there is no God.

All that divides also joins. Though you may cleave yourself from the universe and believe yourself separate from it, you are the universe. The big bang is happening now. You are the explosion.

You are the universe expressing itself at a position in time and space like the ocean expressing itself as a wave. Your location is everywhere, your position is absolute. You are omnipresent.

You beat your heart and grow your hair. By the same virtue you shine the sun and wet the oceans. You are omnipotent.

You are not your name or your role or your relationship to others. You cannot be described with words. You are not a symbol. You are beyond language. You are reality itself.

You are the universe. You can never die because you were never born. You are immortal. You dance from one mode of consciousness to another in a wave pattern. The trough is what you call death. The crest is what you call life.

You are God. We all are.

Buddhists basically worship suicide. No thanks.

have you not seen any statistics justifying hatred of women and minorities. I don't know how the fuck you got on here.

Actually get off this board. ree.

It sucks. They just want to eliminate all pleasure by ceasing to exist thus ending all pain. It was started by a sheltered manchild named siddharta gautema (or however you spell it) who grew up not knowing disease, suffering, and death existed. He was a sheltered manlet prince who never had to do anything hard in his life. Then suddenly he saw the world outside his castle full of war suffering disease famine and was all "boohoo life fucking sucks i need to make a religion were the goal is to no longer exist" so then he became a complete nihilist that decided he was going to just lay back and try to "redpill" everyone to his little epiphany that life is all just suffering and we end it by just meditating(sitting cross legged with eyes closed doing nothing might as well just nap 24/7) until you just cease to exist. Because seeking anything pleasurable just leads to strife.... well fuck you buddha maybe the strife is worth the pleasure to some people. Im going to keep eating tasty meat banging hot bitches, drinking alcohol, playing mind challenging games like chess and poker to keep my ego and intellegence strong because more intellegence equals more power which equals more pleasure.

Been thinking for a while to try to start a regular buddhist general, with links, a pastebin and discussion of related news and discourses (suttas) and all that comes with it for the purpose of informing people.

Would we be enough people for this to take off? report yourselves fellow buddhists!

Why isn't she in the kitchen making a sandwich?

It is weird that Sup Forums dosent have board dedicated only for religion

Sure, go for it

i.e. buddhism

>and we end it by just meditating(sitting cross legged with eyes closed doing nothing might as well just nap 24/7)

baby's first attempt at understanding buddhist philosophy.

nice try. you started off great then showed your true retardation. keep learning and maybe you'll reach nirvana. likely not

don't ask. just do it. but yes we are ready.

I'm a Quaker where the prayer sessions are basically Christian meditation settings.

>consciousness being non-material
>rebirth/cycle of life
>claim of objective good/bad
>charity faggotry
>muh peace

Didn't do it because it takes a little time to set the pastebins and monitoring it for whatever time it is up and so on. Might start one tomorrow maybe.
It'd be a carbon copy of Sup Forums just with a different topic to shitpost and spout memes about. It'd be a disgrace.

Laveyan satanic philosophy kicks ass of buddhist philosophy any day.
Buddhism=lets get rid of pleasure and pain
Satanism=lets do all we can to gain as much pleasure as we possibly can regardless of the potential pain and suffering.

(((Anton LaVey)))

Sounds just like some edgy flavor of hedonism. Can hardly even consider it a philosophy at all.

Why complicate things with "philosophy"? All human beings do is seek pleasure. Its that simple. All we do is seek out the best food, best sex, best drugs, best entertainment. Thats humanity in a nutshell. Philosophy tries to make all that shit sound deeper with bullshit unneccessary concepts like morality, good, and evil. When in actuality your either winning the game of filling your life with pleasure or your not. Its that simple.

Get a load of this edge. lol...

because I do not need to take the wisdom of others word per word but instead acquire my own

I'm Buddhist and it's easy to hate them. I hate minorities and I won't do mental gymnastics to hate them. I just hate them

If you don't know philosophy you're a puppet of someone who does.

Begone simpleton.

DAILY REMINDER THIS IS A GNOSTIC CHRISTIAN BOARD.

YOU REINCARNAT IF YOU DONT ACHIEVE GNOSIS AND ESCAPE THIS LOWER UNIVERSE

White Buddhists are bigger larpers than neo-pagans.

: )

I went to Thailand, a very Buddhist country and trust me, Buddhism is an unfulfilling, oppressive and deconstructive religion focused on achieving an enlightenment that doesn't exist, so that your soul can dissipate.

Philosophy is for cucks and manlets. Do alpha male lions spend their days pissing around with philosophy? Fuck no! They focus on winning. They focus on building their harem of lionesses. Philosophy would only cuck the alpha male lion. Imagine a manlet lion walking on the alpha lions territory and saying "you should share your lionesses ill prove to you with muh logic and muh philosophy and muh morality that your a big mean bully and if you dont share your food and lionesses your being an unfair pig." That manlet lion would be destroyed.

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Start with Zen

>Why aren't you a Buddhist?

Because I'm a Taoist Panentheist Shaman.

Ha. Accusing me of being a nig? How cute.
Im redpilled enough to know that nigs cant even fall back on "muh dick" because only the pornstar blacks have the mythological BBC

>Accusing me of being a nig?

no, i couldn't be bothered with editing the image. but you get the point. there's nothing that distinguishes you from the proto-ape

this mutt knows what's up

Because it's just one step on the way to non-dualism. Valuable lessons to learn at that stage of the journey though for sure.

Im white pure german aryan. Proto ape is just another one of your made up manlet words to feel better about yourself.

Friendly reminder that a good Buddhist does not only practice jhana through meditation but also studies the Dhamma.

Right concentration is one of the latter steps of the Noble Eightfold path, Right View goes first thing and for a very solid reason.

>Im white pure german aryan

you certainly don't act like one. you bring shame to the aryans

Milkers

why?

Because you can't actually end the cycle. And Buddhists wrongly think you can, or that anyone ever has.

MOMMY

>retreating not only from the world, but from your own body

Just watch anime faggot

So disappointing when I found out this is a coal burning scene

All you need is the genetic material. White aryans created me. Making me a reflectikn of all of you. :) sad but true

sounds a lot like pol

Bad thoughts and attitudes arise due to incorrect views. Practicing jhana only represses those bad thoughts so they don't arise for a while. Bad thoughts are created all the time, you can only ignore them for so long, the actual way is to stop generating them in the first place so you can get the most of Right Concentration instead of having to fight them all the time.

By internalizing the Noble truths you cut the source of the problem since your expectations match up to reality and you realize the futility of getting angry in the first place. Practicing jhana just to fend off bad thoughts (anger, sadness, greed, depression, etc) is just misguided effort, instead you should just realize how pointless it is to have these thoughts are and you no longer generate them , achieving way more easily the peace of mind you so desperately and unsuccessfully tried to achieve with jhanic states.

In short, putting jhana before nana is like putting the cart before the ox. It's like practicing and getting really good at how to clean yourself while you're still up to your hips in the mud. First you have to cut the source of the problem, being stuck in the mud (aka wrong views).

I have taken this both from the study of discourses (suttas), by reading other people's experiences and by my very own personal experience. I hope it was helpful.

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sorry, white trash is still trash

ask Buddha anything

yes, thank you

>Why aren't you a Buddhist?
Because I'm not into larping.

I am tho
Still celebrate Christmas tho

Who on that prajnaparamita level though?

>not into larping
ironic, since you're doing that now.

>Why aren't you a Buddhist?

because its a dead political organization and has nothing to do with religion

you wouldnt know a buddha if he was writing this

Hang up the phone! Hello caller do you have a question or concern

Someone help me with this: i get bad anxiety from work even though i know it's all bullshit and based on incorrect perception etc. I still get caught up in it and suffer very much. What kind of practices can I do to let go of it?

Buddhism was created by a boy in a bubble, son of a rich man who went scurrying off into the woods to become a cutter the moment he first learned about sickness, old age, and death at age 29. The root of Buddhism is avoidance of suffering, not the seeking of truth. A life lived in accord with truth will sometimes move you *toward* suffering and it will invite you to bear difficult, painful burdens. Buddhism moves away from all of this. Buddhism also discourages inquiry along the lines of "know thyself" because such questions are 'unwise reflection' and lead to 'self-attachments'. Buddhist philosophy reflects a childish view of suffering and it fails to recognize that experiences of suffering often contain positive value if one endures and survives the experience.

The naive, pop-culture view of Buddhism (meditate, know yourself better, etc) is more beneficial to you than seriously studying actual Buddhism and learning the four, the five, the three, the six, the ten, the twelve, the two, the seven, the eleven, the fourteen, the twenty, the twenty-five, the eight, the nine, etc...

I have read pic related.

Cus i am not fag and joind a nonfag relgion

You're welcome. There's this nice site that is making huge efforts to make texts available for english speaking people by translating a ton of discourses from the originals from the pali canon, you might be interested in checking it out:

accesstoinsight.org/befriending.html

My personal favorite is this one: accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.057.than.html

meditate. on nothing. just sit and experience. and when you get good at that, you can meditate while under pressure, and it will go away. you cannot ultimately stop all thought, but you can focus on the quiet.

>YOU REINCARNAT IF YOU DONT ACHIEVE GNOSIS AND ESCAPE THIS LOWER UNIVERSE

Isn't that basically the same thing Buddhism is trying to achieve?

and after that maybe you'll also notice after some time that the mind and the quietness have something strange about them, but that's for much later.

Also this: youtube.com/watch?v=f_gJYxM6cMA

wonderful, just what i was looking for. thank you very much

Because I'm Catholic

suffering comes from craving. figure out what it is that you crave about the job and let it go. thus will end the suffering and perhaps open up other possibilities

lol this spy learned nothing unfortunately.

Yes it is, at least from the overall knowledge I have from gnosticism. They believe the Demiurge

Many think that gnosticism is the closest thing to the original form and Christianity and in fact there's even many theories that say that Jesus might have been a Buddhist monk or have inspired his teachings on the Dhamma. I personally don't believe it because I don't know if there's any proof for it (haven't really looked it up much) but you have to consider that that zone was a very important trade hub at the time and peoples from all over the world went there so it isn't absolutely out of the realm of possibility.

With no specific reasons as to why the anxiety arises there's little we can do, but still:

Realize that no matter how you paint it, it is your decisions that led you there. Meditate on causality, think what is the origin or underlying causes of you being caught in that life situation today. Do you want to change it or do you want to keep it? You don't have to be stuck there forever, you can get out if you make a plan. What is your plan? If you don't have one begin making one right now and get specific and write it down.

Realize as hard as you can that no matter whether you decide to acknowledge it or not you're taking decisions every moment of every day. If you are not aware of decisions it's just natural you'd take bad ones because you were not paying attention and just went with the flow (aka you were in auto-pilot, with bad decision-making as the program.)

tldr: internalize causality. It is liberating because it proves you that no matter what you always have a choice.

THE JEWS DID BUDDHISM

Because I want to fuck the Boddhisattva-on-a-bike

I try to larp as a buddhist whenever i'm not larping as a normie larping as a nazi pretending to enjoy life

Buddhist are fags lol

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Nice one user. So true. buttism is all a bunch of hooey and balderdash.

I am thinking about embracing Pure Land Buddhism

why isn't she sitting in full lotus? why is she smiling (indicates sustained thought), why aren't her thumbs touching to create the cosmic mudra? this is really bad acting user

Here's your Christmas Red-pill: Jesus followed the Buddhist Dharma. The Bible was written based on either a) a misinterpretation of his message, or b) as a "Dharma For Dummies" series of elaborate metaphors since everyone was a jew.

because i'm not indian or a cuck

I'm white, that's all I need.

>4494198
>"I'm buddhist
>"There is no meaning to life but hating x person has meaning"

The idea that Jesus was ever a Buddhist monk is even more fanciful than the idea that Jesus visited England during that time.

Jesus was always a Jew. He was well versed in the Hebrew scriptures, including the Book of Ecclesiastes which begins in a way quite similar to Buddhist philosophy but reaches a very different conclusion.

The only group that can be seen to have had a strong effect on Jesus were the Cynics. Despite what their name has come to mean, they were far less cynical than the Buddhists.

Buddhist here, not a devout one at least. It's way too bluepilled but teachings vary greatly among monks. Buddhists from the past were pretty much all cucks back then until Muzzies raped, killed, and chased them out while they tried being "compassionate and welcoming". They pretty much 180'ed from there and learned to fend for themselves. Pic related

Because Hindus are correct and Buddhists are wrong.

buddhism, like all the religons scattered across this world, is yet another satanic branch trying to control you. I do believe Buddha was a master, but I don't believe religion is the only pathway to become a master yourself.

Sounds satanic - if life is suffering, how come I enjoy life so much?

bingo!

I am getting into it

satanist's use this philosophy to justify their existence - NOT to justify goodness. Hint: satanists are 100% liars b/c they worship the father of all lies, Satan. It's kind of in the name.

I really wish Sup Forums would get off their high horse about minorities - God created minorities for a reason, and they are in the promiseland for a reason. Get used to it.

But I am, because it is the same religion as Christianity.

Read about Hindu Atman vs Buddhist Anatman before you get too into it. The Hindu position is better.