/lit/ - Literature

>>12704140
>thinking that because he attached himself to a meme like Dzogchen that he can cast aside all the previous doctrines that Dzogchen was largely built on as "crap"
>not realizing that what Buddha taught during his life was almost entirely already found in the pre-Buddhist Upanishads and that he was just a new spinoff iteration of the same principles with a new twist
>not realizing that Tantra existed co-extensively with Upanishadic (Vedantic) teachings before Buddha ever lived and that Tantra was primarily Hindu long before Buddhist Tantra began
>not realizing that "Vedic Brahmanism" is a strawman concocted by Buddhists to obscure the source of Buddha's ideas
>not being aware of Shankaracharya's critiques which BTFO the types of Indian Buddhism that he interacted with in his time and that Buddhism's only recourse is that these were flawed understandings of what Buddha actually taught which was best preserved by other schools that Shankaracharya was unaware of
>not knowing that Tibetian Buddhism if you go back far enough cites Hindu-Tantric Shaivite yogis as part of their spiritual lineages
>not knowing that Nagarjuna didn't prove anything and was btfo by literally who college professors in the 20th century who showed how he relied on strawmanning, pigeonholing and otherwise flawed logic in his arguments,
>not knowing that Nagarjuna didn't even know about the Tathagatagarbha Sutras
>not realizing that Dzogchen is a syncretic assemblage of earlier teachings which all (with the exception of Bon which is a meme) if you go back far enough stem from non-Buddhist sources, and that Dzogchen isn't even the best of these as it views the 2nd turning of the wheel as absolute and the 3rd turning as conditional, when actually it's the reverse and schools like Jonang and certain areas of Ch'an are correct about this and their ideas more reflect what Buddha actually taught.
>being so ignorant of the history and intellectual antecedents of Dzogchen that you refer to everything it's based on and without which it would be nothing as 'crap'

yikes

Did you here about the Buddhist who refused anaesthesia during root-canal surgery?

he wanted to transcend dental medication

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>>11667445
>no arguments