[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature


View post   

File: 97 KB, 480x900, E88DC2E2-E20F-4813-A835-800F8564FF7F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
22090442 No.22090442 [Reply] [Original]

Does anyone have some good resources where I can learn about the Buddha’s teachings? They sound really applicable to modern “life”, so I’d like to learn more.

>> No.22090497

>>22090442
Read the NT, but replace Jesus with Buddha. Tada! Buddhism

>> No.22090567

What the Buddha Taught, and the Red Pine's translation of the Heart Sutra.

>> No.22090574

>>22090442
Dhammapada

>> No.22090588

>>22090497
can't tell if trolling or retard

>> No.22090734

The Foundations of Buddhism by Rupert Gethin
>They sound really applicable to modern “life”, so I’d like to learn more
I don't know about that but they're interesting for me as a heritage Buddhist

>> No.22090844

>>22090588
Name one substantial difference between Christianist and Buddhistian ethics

>> No.22090943

>>22090844
>Christianist and Buddhistian

lmao

>> No.22090991

Best I could tell you is the og buddhist texts like the dhammpada and the diamond sutra, even though they were written hundreds of years after buddha's death they're better than some westerners retarded interpretations of buddhasim .

>> No.22091055

>>22090442
Early Buddhist Discourses translated by John J. Holder is a very good introduction. My favorite sutta was the "Discourse to Potthapāda".

>> No.22091062

>>22090497
There's a book in that vein called "Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings"

>> No.22091083

>>22090442
"Clearing the Path" Writings of Nanavira Thera

>> No.22092019

last one
https://journals.openedition.org/leportique/853?lang=en

>> No.22092096
File: 169 KB, 1297x957, 1663624525391845.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
22092096

according to atheists, karma is little points of approbation and also this

>> No.22093347

>>22090442
In the East, you can barely pick up an intellectual/spiritual book without tasting a pastiche of Buddhism. If you want to understand Eastern religion, you should study the Eastern discourses which Buddhism was born into/gave birth to.
I would say get into academic Buddhology and study some of the most historically significant sutras. Try to pick a 400-year term and study Buddhist history over that duration. You should discern a few schools, their venerated texts, their significant teachers, &c. Buddhism isn't just a religion, it's a literary tradition, so you'll want to discern the authors who are (ir)relevant to whatever you wanna read.

>> No.22093351

>>22090991
This doesn't reflect anybody's understanding of Buddhism. Not even the Theravada claims that the Sri Lankan canon existed within a few centuries of the Buddha's life.

>> No.22093366
File: 55 KB, 600x797, 1660258590031457.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
22093366

>>22090442
Vimalakirti Sutra. The Thurman translation is confusing if you can't recognize what technical vocabulary he is rendering in English as stuff like "gnosis." BDK has a good translation but for whatever reason they pair it with the Srimaladevi Sutra.

>> No.22094468
File: 1.40 MB, 2560x1099, 1685484790210.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
22094468

>>22090442

>> No.22095362

>>22090734
This is a good intro I can confirm.

>> No.22096580

you want the suttas, especially the SN ones fro the redpill
https://americanmonk.org/free-pts-sutta-ebooks/
you can read all this in 1 month if you are neet, otherwise jsut do this :
take 1h to read that and you'll be up to date and know more than 99% of the alleged buddhists :

>start
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN19.html
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN6_63.html
>middle
https://suttacentral.net/mn148/en/sujato
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN12_51.html
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN11_1.html
>finish
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN54_8.html


speed learning about buddhism with videos
-the redpill which is the ajahn brahm teaching for monks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnuVoJXWhM&list=PLQ_Y6m62B_MVZVGIzfjqrpoUmszVMcxWV
-then work slowly with the soft pill which is the retreat for lay people, so watch the other ones here (watch the QA too)
https://www.youtube.com/c/AjahnBrahmRetreats2011-15BSWAMedia/playlists

>> No.22096605

>>22093366
>Vimalakirti Sutra.
Unfortunately it contradicts the teaching by the buddha, for instance about hinayana, therefore cannot be used to learn buddhism.

>> No.22096671
File: 26 KB, 720x659, tf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
22096671

>>22090844
>Christianist and Buddhistian

>> No.22096681

>>22090442
>They sound really applicable to modern “life
I hate you

>> No.22096794

>>22090497
Not as dumb as you think. Notice Buddhist monks and Christian monks practice the same. Very fascinating Imo.

Anyway my recommendation is Being Buddha by Paul Griffiths

>> No.22097080

>>22096794
Moreover, Christians in the West and Buddhists in the East both await the palingenesis.

>> No.22097120

>>22096794
>I'm not familiar enough with either so they are the same to me
a rampant problem with this board

>> No.22097667

>>22090844
I can do so. Though I think the gospel of Thomas reads very similar to the Lotus Sutra and they are quite compatible and the Dalai Lama considers Jesus Christ to be a high level Boddhisatva using skillful means to teach Buddhism to the west.

So it’s not ridiculous to compare them.

However, Buddhism has a karmic system and the karmic system rewards good behavior with reward in the next life. It considers pleasure and happyness to be undesirable as they are distractions from escaping samsara.

Thus a Buddhist close to nirvana will avoid pleasure and goodness in favor of neutrality.

The Christian ethic works in that evil deeds have cast all to heaven and without atonement offered through Christ there is no hope of heaven. The good deeds happen as a necessary result of faith. But don’t offer any help towards salvation.

This is unlike the Islamic system where bad deeds are held against you and weighed against good deeds ti determine your fate. (Faith in Allan will mutiply each good deeds weight by 1000 or something).

So in the Christian view helping the poor is just something the faithful do as a result of their faith. They aren’t concerned with their earthly position and naturally seek to help. The they aren’t doing good in order to gain anything for themselves.


The Buddhist who is low level human or lower would seek to help the poor to better is position in samsara and therefore make his own life better. However a high level Buddhist would not be disturbed from meditation and practice, and to help the poor would cause him to rise to far in risk being distracted by reincarnation as a rich man with a harem or a god with unlimited wine etc.

The Islamic person would do so in order to tip the scales in his favor.

>>22097120
‘2001 the Dalai Lama stated that "Jesus Christ also lived previous lives", and added that "So, you see, he reached a high state, either as a Bodhisattva, or an enlightened person, through Buddhist practice or something like that."[25] Thich Nhat Hanh affirmed core Christian beliefs such as the trinity, and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in his book Living Buddha, Living Christ. Bokin Kim, similarly, sees Christ as the Buddha Dharmakaya, and Jesus as similar to Gautama who was just a historical manifestation of the transhistorical Buddha’

I think I’m correct because I’m only parroting Buddhist leaders. Jesus Christ and the trinity fit within the Buddhist view. They have similar ideas with respect to the Buddha and similar virtues and monastic principles AND even Amitaba has similar ideas of helping others escape suffering

>> No.22097891

>>22097667
>Thus a Buddhist close to nirvana will avoid pleasure and goodness in favor of neutrality.
No, they would remain in equanimity in the face of pleasure and pain, free of attachment and aversion

>> No.22099388

>>22097667
>I think I’m correct because I’m only parroting Buddhist leaders. Jesus Christ and the trinity fit within the Buddhist view. They have similar ideas with respect to the Buddha and similar virtues and monastic principles AND even Amitaba has similar ideas of helping others escape suffering
no, the 8 fold is part of the solution of buddhism to solve suffering, if they don't teach it, it's not buddhism.

And jews based their salvation on devotion to their sadistic god, whereas buddhism has no devotion in it.