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>>18278475
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REMINDER THAT HINDUS ARE TOO RETARDED TO UNDERSTAND THIS

The Buddha said: “Monks, abandon what is not yours. Abandoning it will lead to benefit and happiness. Now, what is it that is not yours? Form is not yours; abandon it. Abandoning it will lead to benefit and happiness. Sensation, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness are not yours; abandon them. Abandoning them will lead to benefit and happiness.

“Here is an example: suppose someone were to cut down the grass, wood, branches, leaves, and foliage here in the Jeta forest, or were to take it away or burn it, or do whatever he wished with it. What do you think? Would you think, ‘That person is cutting us, or taking us away, or burning us, or doing whatever he wished with us’?”

The monks answered, “Of course not, Venerable Sir.”

“And why is that?”

“Because this forest, Venerable Sir, is not ourselves; nor does it belong to us.”

“In just the same way, abandon what is not yours. Abandoning it will lead to benefit and happiness. In just the same way, form is not yours; abandon it. Abandoning it will lead to benefit and happiness. Sensation, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness are not yours; abandon them. Abandoning them will lead to benefit and happiness.”


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>>15092558
Deïstic/Theïstic God is an Enlightenment-era construct that really only reflects the general distrust of intellectuals for 'holy scripture' and organized religion. Usually people who were mostly concerned with an ethical stance such as Pascal and Schopenhauer. I, for example, earnestly have faith in Aristotle's God (or the God of the platonists for that matter), that doesn't overstep the boundaries of what human reason can fathom. Their concept of God was plagiarized by the Christians and IS the Christian/Islamic God minus the Jewish mythology. Faith of the heart is involved, it is of course a pity that there is not as much of a strong aesthetic involved as in Islam/Christianity.

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>>14923739
Would it be completely unjust to say that the Theory of Forms and the Neoplatonists were an intermediate stage between polytheism and properly philosophically substantiated monism? Anons... I'm scared