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Dear pseudo-Buddhists,

It is not enough to read a book, to enter a building or to buy a plane ticket to "change your worldvievv" or to "see something different".

The first step through alterity is to get to know, and not just feel, one's own culture, i.e. to do its critique, so you can be able to detach yourself from it, to detach yourself from it as a whole, which means not just just from the things you dont like.

So, please stop your mumble and before choosing where you want to go see where you are.

Thanks.

>> No.2698641

Speaking of (also, I was just watching the episode of Community about Pierce's pseudo-Buddhist cult), what are some good on Buddhism to start out with?

>> No.2698651
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>>2698641

>> No.2698664

Most people are just embracing a culture that they feel gives them a purpose or identity.

Can't really blame them for trying to escape a mundane existence, even if it is misguided.

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>>2698641
Ignore Theravada Buddhism.

The Zen Experience, by Thomas Hoover is really good, and is free in the Kindle store. Alan Watts also has some good books on it.

Bastard or Western Zen is really interesting as well. Zenarchy and Zen Without Zen Masters are both good introductory texts.

Just remember that you won't reach enlightenment through rigorous study.

>> No.2698672

>>2698664
yeah cant blame them but that does not fix 1) the damage they cause to that culture 2) the blockage they cause inside their own culture and 3) the reproduction of what they try to avoid.

i dont care about their motivations, they are fucking everything with their "identity" quest.

>> No.2698690

Jesus fucking Christ I'm just interested in learning a little about Buddhism, not achieving enlightenment. And you know what? Even if it was within my reach, I was just teetering over the cavernous depths of understanding, I wouldn't take that plunge.


So fuck you, "defenders of the faith." You're worse than the Crusaders.

>> No.2698696

>>2698668

>Ignore Theravada

As if an Anglophone has any choice: every book about Buddhism is about Mahayana or Tibetan Buddhism.

>> No.2698697

>>2698690
>defenders of the faith
>faith

you are feeding my hate, not with your intentions, but with your ignorance of their true meaning.

>> No.2698699
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2698699

how hard is it to reach enlightenment anyway? pretty sure i did it when i was like 12

>> No.2698703

>>2698697

>gets upset that faith is an essential component of orthodox Buddhism

Confirmed for pop-Buddhist phony.

>> No.2698711

>>2698703
>implying i am into buddhism at all.

dont pay attention to the content of the message. the form is sometimes more important.

>> No.2698720

>>2698664
You're so dark and above-it-all
I bet you consider yourself one of them too. a sort of pseudo-humble kafkaesque irony.

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>>2698720
>pseudo-humble kafkaesque irony

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>>2698720
>pseudo-humble kafkaesque irony

>> No.2698766

Are there any good books on critiquing one's own culture?

>> No.2698782

>>2698699
>how hard is it to reach enlightenment anyway?

What's the sound of one hand clapping?

>> No.2698791

>>2698782
Nothing.

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>>2698720

>pseudo-humble kafkaesque irony

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>>2698791
Well, glad we've cleared that up!

>> No.2698918

>>2698766
fuck! that is the approach im trying to attack! you aint gonna find anything on a book, just there ready-to-think.

if one is not ready to reject what one loves r likes about one's own lifestyle then there is no point in trying to "critic one's own culture".

>> No.2698925

>>2698816

>dat Audrey
>dat Fred

Such a good on-screen combo.

>> No.2698953

TAKE THE INNER PATH
DISREGARD THE SHEITAN
KEEP ON PURCHASING THE LIGHT
REALISING LIGHT WAS HERE FROM START
WAT DO?

New game
make walkthroughts

>> No.2698961

>>2698953
>REALISING LIGHT WAS HERE FROM START
>WAT DO?

if you truly realized that then the last question makes no sense.

>> No.2698972

>>2698961
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EUuFj7jWrc

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>>2698953
[x] REALISING LIGHT WAS HERE FROM START

>> No.2698995

This thread proves the reason why religion leads to war

>> No.2699035

>>2698995
>implying you know what a religion is

>> No.2699051

This thread is the worst i've seen in a while.

>> No.2699071

>>2698995
implying buddhism be a religion

>> No.2699076

>>2699051
this thread is not about buddhism

>>2699071
>implying i implied that
>implying you can greentext

>> No.2699143

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIWD4JE7q78&feature=related

I think he really got it when it came to Buddhism and in general eastern mysticism/philosophy.

>> No.2699153

>>2699143
उन जांघों ताली

>> No.2699726

Why do you guys not like Theraveda Buddhism? Its the closest to what the Buddha actually taught. I mean, how can Buddha-nature exist without the self? Mahayan are you even trying?

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>>2699143

>> No.2701070

bump for best thread inawhile