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You walk up to a muslim or jew, ask them if a thing is right or wrong, he tells you what his book says is to be done to the sinner in that specific situation as spoken by god and ellaborated on by the rabbis or fiqh, you walk up to a christian, he tells you said thing is wrong referring his book as well but not specifically what is to be done, only that it is a moral principle of god.
But what will the buddhist do? What does his religion, on a day-to-day basis actually consist of?.
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>>18516975
mediate now
https://ia803200.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/26/items/ebo ok-buddhism-2/EBOOK%20BUDDHISM%202. rar&file=EBOOK%20BUDDHISM%202%2FSUD AH%2FNOVICE%2FENG%2FUpasaka%20Culad asa_The%20Mind%20Illuminated.pdf
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>>18516975
Buddhism, stripped of minutiae, teaches that all of reality is merely reality experiencing itself through reality.
The goal would not be "nothingness" but "emptiness". To be stripped of all presupposition. Only then can you see things for what they really are.
Unfortunately without the minutiae this leads to societies which stagnate and focus on doing nothing at all. Sort of like the Buddha. There is some value, however, in the Buddhist practice of taking temporary monastic vows to gain a greater understanding of the basic principle: be empty; have no presuppositions.
Everyone knows all about "desire" and "suffering" in Buddhism, which are only the inroads to the truth about emptiness. Eventually you are meant to stop caring about the problem of suffering in the first place.
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THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT OF BUDDHISM IS SUFFERING; AROUND IT ORBIT ALL BUDDHISTIC CONCEPTS, AND FROM SUFFERING IS ITS ETHOS DERIVED.
BUDDHISM CAN BE REDUCED TO THIS SENTENCE: «CAUSE NO SUFFERING».
THE PROBLEM IS THAT LIFE ITSELF ENTAILS SUFFERING; IT IS A PART OF REALITY, OF EXISTENCE, THEREFORE, IN BUDDHISM, REALITY IS FUNDAMENTALLY EVIL, AND SOMETHING FROM WHICH TO ESCAPE; THIS RESULTS IN A LIFEDENYING ETHOS, AND A NIHILISTIC MORALITY, IN CONJUNCTION WITH DEMONWORSHIP.
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>>18516988
Early christians used castrate themselves for the same reason. Various sects practiced this form of severe asceticism to achieve a monastic ideal. Even Origen of Alexandria parted with his.. manhood
Wasn't until the first council of nicea in 325AD that it was banned.
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>>18517012
But the fundamental belief that creation had an original, natural, remaining form to it persisted and eventually crushed and outlawed the life-denying gnosticism. Islam, in a way, can be seen as swinging further in this direction into arguing that there was no original sin and that humans independently reach sin not because of a fallen nature but an individual non-adherence to allah but other things (hence the emphasis on idolatry)
Christians have historically had this internal discussion of countering between the jewish idea that "to be good is to follow rules set by God" and a more greek idea of "to be good is to love your neighbor", and its hard to say either side completely denied the other, only the extremes that either went back to judaism or declared satan created the world
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>>18517069
The fact that you don't know or are unwilling to accept that it does highly implies that you're not a mexican but an arab, chinese, or otherwise native speaker of a language that doesn't have uppercase letters. I dont even think your keyboard is on a latin alphabet
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>>18516975
> But what will the buddhist do?
a good buddhist would do the same: contrast the thing with the books, the suttas. then define if the thing is good or bad for the path.
> What does his religion, on a day-to-day basis actually consist of?
abandon what is unwholesome, and developing what is wholesome.
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>>18516975
Buddhism is characterized by the belief that reality is characterized by a lack of essencehood and that the belief that one is an essence creates suffering of multiple types. The core of Buddhist metaphysics is dependent arising which connects to the soteriological end in Buddhism, the cessation of dukkha which is sometimes understood as a type of omnscience or gnosis. Buddhism holds that there is only the apperance of efficient causes but ultimately there is nothing that can be said to be you and ultimately no causes. As a whole, all the Buddhist traditions hold that there practices are a technology to end dukkha.
Introduction to Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbtw4F3g3RY
Introduces the Buddha, core Buddhist beliefs, Buddhism as religion and philosophy, and the spread of Buddhism.
Introduction to Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4v2XlKSQ8I
Continues the introductory overview of Buddhist teachings and practices. The Part 1 video links directly to this sequel.
Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jayCoGN7s
Introduces the origins, doctrines, and ideals of Mahayana Buddhism.
Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZx6rK4N8qM
Continues the discussion of Mahayana thought, scriptures, and practices within the broader Buddhist tradition.
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>>18517613
Here is part 2 of both as well as a video that explains Buddhist accounts of metaphysical antifoundationalism, the view in general that reality has no foundations. Some Buddhist traditions that this more of a gnosis of that one so to speak realizes upon the cessation of dukkha. The first in general and the second explores accounts in Far East Asian Buddhism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw2o63abpvs&list=PLKBfwfAaDeaWBcJseIgQ B16pFK4_OMgAs&index=2&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTAyonU0lZs&list=PLKBfwfAaDeaWBcJseIgQ B16pFK4_OMgAs&index=4&t=89s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E1_ZeKQ81c
Huayan stuff starts around 40 minute mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJhTWBwLHgE