Share your knowledge about Buddhism with me, I came here 2 years ago posting about actual freedom after having spent several years prior investigating zen buddhism.
One user responded with such penetrating words of correction that I woke up from Richard's teachings. From then on I continued to pursue other teachings such as discordianism. I also developed an interest in psychoanalysis, although I never studied it deeply at all.
Some months later, after reading John Berryman's "dream songs" I experienced such profound emotional and spiritual darkness that I felt as though I were going insane with grief. This lasted one night and one morning.
The next night, out of deep desperation I asked for prayer from my Christian family and that day I would say that I experienced what it meant to be born again.
So I am now here again, 2 years later, contemplating the existence of God yet again and weighing my present beliefs with the path purported by the Buddha.
If you have any insight at all, please share with me. I would appreciate it a lot.
All religions are for lazy cowards who are afraid to die btw
Dylan Garcia
Have you listened to lectures by Alan Watts, OP?
Aiden Thompson
Yeah
Wyatt Nguyen
Not even really a religion in the typical sense of the word.
And in what way is realizing the 4 noble truths and living your life every day on the eightfold path lazy. How many other religions actually practice what the proselytize every single day? How many religions embrace science and instruct one that they are their own refuge?
Cameron Sullivan
No religion embraces science
Caleb Baker
Except for Buddhism, but like I said, Buddhism isn't really a religion. Call it philosophy, call it a religion, call it whatever you like because the name you give it is inessential to its being.
Liam Robinson
We also discussed a man named UG Krishnamurti in the last thread.
Jonathan Rogers
Nah ill call it a religion because that is what it is
