/lit/ - Literature

>>17200536
That's the thing, Buddhism doesn't make any sense, Hindus have called them out for it, Taoists have, Tantrists have, they just don't listen.
>>17200555
t. hasn't read in the Pali Canon where people who kill Buddhist monks get hellish rebirths
>This has always been a problem in Buddhism
activates my almonds huh
>>17200619
>Why not just take acid and trip out in the park by some hobos?
grasping the essential truths of metaphysics is superior to psychedelics in that the former is undecaying

>>17200677
>When you are alive, you are in a constant state of change. When you die, you again go through changes. Like waves that arise and dissipate, you rise and fall. There is no "you
But this is meaningless because if a different entity is bound than the one who seeks liberation than the whole endeavor is pointless for the one seeking it. As a great man once said

"Lastly, the Buddhistic assumption that the extinction of that consciousness is the highest end of human life, is untenable, for there is no recipient of results. For a person who has got a thorn stuck into him, the relief of the pain caused by it is the result (he seeks); but if he dies, we do not find any recipient of the resulting cessation of pain. Similarly I if consciousness is altogether extinct and there is nobody to reap that benefit, to talk of it as the highest end of human life is meaningless. If that very entity or self, designated by the word 'person' -Consciousness, according to you-whose well-being is meant, is extinct, for whose sake will the highest end be? But those who believe in a self different from consciousness and witnessing many objects, will find it easy to explain all phenomena such as the remembrance of things previously seen and the contact and cessation of pain-the impurity, for instance, being ascribed to contact with extraneous things, and the purification to dissociation from them."