/lit/ - Literature

>>23062273
Take it to /x/, faggot. You're full of shit and your religion is a self-inflicted joke.

Because I want to love, I want to enjoy this dreamlike existence for as long as I'm capable of it. Not detach from it

>>23062665
>long as I'm capable of it
Literally forever

>>23062273
I can't see buddhism as a serious religion. The more I learn about it the more it feels like a meme. I stopped giving a fuck years ago.

>>23062273
I like liking things.

>>23062688
I think some kind of idealism is true and that the "dreamlike" nature of reality is more literally true than most would assume. So I figure that perhaps something lies at the end of this dream.

>>23062665
>>23062690
who says you can't like things though? the Buddha just teaches that the things people ordinarily like are not that satisfying, and that people only like them because they have no access to any other type of pleasure. practicing asceticism correctly means you enjoy things 100000000000000000000x more than any usual sensual pleasure seeking can get you

"Now, when you think these eight thoughts of a great person and become a person who can attain at will, without trouble or difficulty, these four jhanas — heightened mental states providing a pleasant abiding in the here & now — then your robe of cast-off rags will seem to you to be just like the clothes chest of a householder or householder's son, full of clothes of many colors. As you live contented, it will serve for your delight, for a comfortable abiding, for non-agitation, & for alighting on Unbinding.

"When you think these eight thoughts of a great person and become a person who can attain at will, without trouble or difficulty, these four jhanas — heightened mental states providing a pleasant abiding in the here & now — then your meal of almsfood will seem to you to be just like the rice & wheat of a householder or householder's son, cleaned of black grains, and served with a variety of sauces & seasonings... your dwelling at the foot of a tree will seem to you to be just like the gabled mansion of a householder or householder's son, plastered inside & out, draft-free, bolted, and with its shutters closed... your bed on a spread of grass will seem to you like the couch of a householder or householder's son, spread with long-haired coverlets, white woolen coverlets, embroidered coverlets, antelope-hide & deer-skin rugs, covered with a canopy, and with red cushions for the head & feet...

>>23062721
Quit shitting up the board with Buddhist threads, nerd

>>23062721
Like all religions it feels like this is just said by proselytes to get you interested ("noo don't worry man you can have your cake and eat it too") but in practice I haven't ever seen a practicing Buddhist follow the teachings while still enjoying worldly things.
I'm not interested in discarding the enjoyment and wonder the world provides me for the promise of an allegedly better or more peaceful enjoyment in the jhanas.

practicing real buddhism makes living in our society literally impossible
it's impossible to be a genuine buddhist and not be an ascete monk
therefore buddhists irl are hacks and if you're a buddhist and shitpost here, you're a larper as well

>>23062766
>it's impossible to be a genuine buddhist and not be an ascete monk
Why not? Did the Buddha not teach a path for laypeople?

>>23062273
>why not practice the Buddha's teaching /lit/?
Gautama, Siddhārtha. Dislike him. A cheap nihilist, insipid and foolhardy. A pied piper, pathological narcissist and a cloying moralist. Some of his modern disciples are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his claims about remembering past lives seriously.
Majjhima Nikāya. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Yājñavalkya's "Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad"
Dīgha Nikāya. Dislike it intensely.
Dhammapada. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole