reply to post by rileytardell
Buddhism is not about accepting your suffering, it is about transcending your suffering.
To live is to suffer
To suffer is caused by desire
To transcend desire is to follow the middle path
the middle path between both extremes of pleasure and pain, is the way to the end of suffering.
Buddhism is essentially moderationism in all things, with a culmination of peace of mind.
The Buddha is like a doctor, who cures the sick. It is not about accepting suffering, it is about changing yourself so you do not continue to suffer
by falling into the same type of karmic traps.
I am indifferent to the Dalai Lama
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reply to post by ancient_wisdom
how sweet.. yet you completely ignore my previous posts where I actually SAY that bumping this thread causes me suffering? how very buddhist of you..
or should I just transcend it despite making an appeal to ATS members not to bump this? You post is saturated in hypocricey.
The member you are responding to has in fact been banned for some time so won't be reading you anyway. You keep responding to him yet I find it
unlikely that you did not know this given the dramas were already explained in great detail on the previous page.
[edit on 23-8-2009 by riley]
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There may be a Jesuit influence in this somewhere. The Jesuits rushed to Asia soon after they where founded. Don't discount a more global conspiracy
behind the Buddhist manipulations.
Buddhism falls into the general category of dead religions that are really little more than money making scams. It someone practicing Buddhism or
Catholicism or is a Sikh or Muslim, actually attains some spiritual capacity it will be a result of their own internal spiritual status and it will be
quite limited. Tibetan Buddhism certainly was about making a living and keeping people committed to funding them. Similar to how Catholicism uses
confession to create a dependency, Buddhism creates it by having families submit a child to become a monk. The problem isn't with the defined ideals
of the "faith" but with the fact that these are really just ordinary people who not only become indoctrinated but become dependent. All the old
religions are maintained by ordinary people who are nothing more than book learned. They are all going through their karma and they can't escape
their true condition and underlying nature with words or how they act in public. Inside, if they have strong desires needing to be gratified, they
will find a way to do so.
The real mistake is in seeing any of these, so called paths, as being truly viable sources of spiritual opportunity. The spiritual opportunity has
always come from the living master, an individual. Organization that appoint priest classes end up being obligated to cover up for their true nature.
The priest is the salesman for the organization.
Talk is cheap and marketing is easy, and these people find themselves in positions of power, influence and opportunity. Insincerity and hypocrisy are
the order of the day. It is reflected in all manner of abuse. Power tends to corrupt, after all. Corrupt meaning that with power and opportunity, an
individual finds a greater range of options to express the evils lurking in their mind.
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