Comment on Anon studies Buddhism

Allero@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s like saying, “I used to be a fan of pizza until I had one in Altoona, PA.”

  There’s better pizza out there.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s an actual place. Is that Buddha’s favorite pizza joint or something?

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    • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Look up Altoona pizza.

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• drre@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Late to the party, and no offence to buddhism, but i always loved this quote from Terry Pratchett

  “Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"

  Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: “A fish!”

  And Clodpool went away, satisfied.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

  (copies the quote from www.goodreads.com/work/…/46982-thief-of-time?page… but i’m rather sure its correct, so i didn’t check my copy).

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It depends really. I grew up Buddhist and things were chill. Speeches I heard at temple were just telling us to be good people, be nice to people no matter their race or gender stuff like that, don’t do harm to people or animals.

  Even Abrahamic religions have good and bad spiritual leaders, some are cult like and others are just trying to get people to have decent morals.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fair point!

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity, which Buddhist tradition was this temple out of? I’ve had similar experience, but I get the feeling like Buddhist thought might be about as diverse as Christian.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tibetan, it’s a mix of Mahayana and Vajrayana

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  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s m8ch more doverse than Christianity, actually. Buddhism isn’t so much a religion in the judeochristian sense as a characteristic that many religions have. There are Buddhist traditions that worship gods, there are godless Buddhist traditions that worship the Buddha, and ones thay don’t even wirshio the Buddha but just think he was a pretty wise dude. Some require you to meditate daily, others to chant some mantras, and there are Buddhist traditions like Zen that worship nothing and are all about getting your head out of your ass.

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Plain Buddhism was kind of a downer so they made stuff like pure land buddhism that is more of a fun afterlife version instead of hardcore OG Buddha which is like kill yourself and stop existing forever because the world is just an eternal cycle of pain and reincarnation into more pain forever.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, Zen Buddhism kinda rocks.

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• rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t blame the religion, blame the people.

  Buddhist or Christian, people love brainrot.

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I kinda lost my interest in Buddhism when I learnt that according to traditional Buddhist lore, women can’t reach Nirvana.
  When they’ve collected enough good karma, they are reborn as a man.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Surely that’s not all sects of Buddhism.

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  • Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean aint that different from what the old testament teaches. Not saying the choice is between Christianity and Buddhism, but I’d assume most religions have patriarchy vibes baked into them. Not that I agree with religion, I see them all as means of various levels of crowd control for the masses, and somebody trying to benefit from it, be it a spiritual leader or an orange clown.

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  • hardcoregek@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good for them!

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hate you for making me laugh

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• Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A classic cult tactic tbh. Convince people that they can divine meaning from random nonsense and they’ll convince themselves that they are more enlightened and above those around them who don’t understand.

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• _____@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Care to give any examples ?

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not super good at remembering things I don’t need or accept, so I’ll speak a bit generally, but, for example, the cosmology and all the quasi-gods are extremely intertwined, excessively overcomplicated, but actually simple and repetitive;

    Also the pretentious way it poses as a way to direct you in life (monks went so far as to say Buddhism goes far beyond modern philosophy and psychology and is at the forefront of knowledge in life of dignity and happiness), while really it can be condensed to “endure pain and man up, feelings don’t matter, just do what needs to be done”, which is super toxic and not really effective (and I wonder ifit’s also contributing to the toxic work culture in the Far East).

    Also, as in many religions, it’s full of stories about miracles happening every day (like, the man who was terminally ill, was set to die within a month and barely walked, but then decided to go 8000km by foot through entire Eurasia to the main temple, and he lived, and succeeded, and lived as a monk ever after).

    Etc. etc.

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