/lit/ - Literature

At it's core they're the same thing, with Buddhism having the benefit of seemingly being the progenitor of the other. Unfortunately, because it was spread to MENA it had to take on typical fearmongering charasteristics in tandem with suffering and torment - because it appears to me that the Semite is spiritually too weak and too animalistic to willingly take on higher functions without some sort of proverbial gun held over their head. Even with Islam, a strict religion putting in thought into purity and correct actions, they still degenerate into beasts they're known as today, and don't even get me started with the Jews and their need for degeneracy and blood libel (which lives today with Global Pedomafia and human trafficking etc (not the topic tho)).

In essence, what the fuck is the point in even getting into Gnosticism if it's just MENAoid corruption full of typical semitic tactics to buckbreak beasts into a semblance of a human being. The original thing, if it indeed was original - and I will concede that I may be wrong, doesn't brainwash with fearmongering. It's just there. Pick it up if you're ready, or don't and continue till you eventually become ready.

I suppose the topic of Karma and Reincarnation is also important. The semite will always degenerate with the knowledge that things are not final. He will do bad things and just try to "even out the Karma" eventually, which is a corruption of Karmic and Dharmic thought. The reason fearmongering and "sin" exists is/was to keep the beastly nature of crypto-nigger semite (jew, arab, anything brown in MENA really - maybe not persians and syrians (the still white ones)) in check.

>Too long didn't read
I believe that Gnosticism is Buddhism that was forced to adapt in order to somewhat try and set the Semitic nigger into the correct spiritual path. The fearmongering and other horror shit is essentially the concession they had to make.

Any book or author, or thinker willing to examine at least some tenants of this thought?

Is this the answer? I've felt so "spiritually dead" and lonesome for quite some time, maybe most of my life. My basic needs are met, I'm healthy enough, have a job and good friends and good family, but something is definitely missing and I just can't put my finger on it. I read and enjoyed What the Buddha Taught - what should I read next? Or should I just dive into meditation?

I just don't really understand what attracts people (mostly westerners) to Buddhism, for example, or Indian religions. Compared to western theologists and philosophers, I feel like they overcomplicate the less interesting aspects of humanity and/or don't offer enough solution for its problems. Specifically I'm interested in why a westerner or a Christian might be attracted to eastern philosophy

>Just devalue everything bro. You can't suffer if life is worthless!!

Buddhism is the biggest cope that has ever been made holy fucking shit

https://www.thenation.com/article/ron-purser-mcmindfulness-mindfulness-meditation-book-interview/
>Stripped of all ethical and religious tenets, mindfulness meditation has morphed into a market-friendly practice, adaptable into any context. Even the US military deploys mindfulness among its commanders and troops, teaching them how to focus on their breath as they pull the trigger.

>Today’s corporatized mindfulness is largely a do-it-yourself practice (with countless books, meditation apps, podcasts, gurus, and seminars) filling the vacuum of a lonely culture obsessed with self-optimization, mind hacks, and shortcuts to self-care. Modern mindfulness is often sold as evidence-based, sanitized of any cultural baggage—neuroscience with a dash of what Jon Kabat-Zinn, known as the father of the modern-day mindfulness movement, calls “the essence of Buddhism.” It’s at once secular and clinical yet sacred.