Tfw I'm a backslided Christian who's considering converting to Buddhism

>the one true faith is surely the one which appeals to my own personal idiosyncrasies and emotions

You'll be called new age and be made fun of. Lots of white people do it but they're generally the "nu-male" type.
I went to a Buddhist temple for a short while and I'm pretty embarrassed about it. I left because I felt that they were too anti confrontation and were using Buddhist belief to justify their spinelessness.

Not all temples are the same though and I was mainly turned off by the people and not the belief. I would definitely recommend exploring a bit but don't feel like you have to 'convert' really suddenly or all at once.

well its not like I don't consider myself a Catholic.
I'm just unsure.
my gut tells me Christianity but this may be due to the cultural atmosphere I grew up with and was born into.
and even then, Christianity is massive and diverse as hell
I always lean more towards mystic practices which is why Orthodoxy appeals to me from what I've read on it

as I said I live in Asia currently and have direct access to Buddhist temples and monks which I've taken advantage of. I do really appreciate it but I'm unsure if I could go all the way and abandon Christianity.

not religious but I wouldn't think its healthy to just jump from religion to religion. something you'd have to do a lot of soul searching on. I'm lead to believe that crisis of faith come and go. It would suck if this crisis is temporary and you've now got all this baggage about ditching your faith etc.

Lol roasted, what kind of pleb isn't a disembodied logos with objective knowledge of reality?

That is pleb but people here are always talking about about religion like there shopping for clothes or something.
>This doctrine offends me, this one makes me look like a cuck, this one has bad aesthetics
Theres often no actual reasoning or soul searching it almost seems like its about how other will view them

I've never once seen a Buddhist argument for why we should not just kill ourselves. They usually just resort to the old "but killing is wrong bro" spook

It seems to me if one chooses to live you are choosing to desire, to be hysterical and to be attached.
What Buddhists propose is just an inferior form of damage control, contrary to their own logic

Converting means nothing. You either genuinely believe in something or you don't.

i guess you'll just go too buddhist hell but wont be more enlightened

Bad karma, you'll get reborn and it won't fix anything, and as the Buddha found self flagellation doesn't fix anything.

Read anything you liked?

I'm being generous and talking about the more sophisticated Westernized buddhism not that mystic man magic bullshit

>sophisticated
Its just a western atheist corruption of an eastern religion and the reason they cant answer your question is because their half baked new age reinterpretation is retarded and not internally consist

it's because buddhism believes in literal reincarnation, no matter what these buddhists try to calim about "hurr no it's 'rebirth' ", no the buddha actually believed in past lives and future lives, he even talked about dreaming about past literal past lives, he grew up in the hindu tradition

the idea with buddhism is samsara (the cycle of birth and rebirth) is so bad that one must try to entirely escape the whole thing, by autisming your mind so hard it never becomes a new lifetime

you shouldn't 'just' kill yourslef because you'll simply be born (according to buddhism) in a new lifetime, ad probably in a lower form on this earth, or in one of the lower realms.

although saying that the buddha did say that some suicides were okay, that ofpeople who have reached enlightenment already. basically his view was suicide is pointless because you;ll just have to do another lifetime ina lower form, BUT if you are enlightened then it might be okay to suicide because you wont be reborn

of course if the buddha were born within the modern scientific doxa where we don't believe in reincarnation, then he would simply have killed himself to avoid suffering, and acheive the nirvana (to blow out, like a candle, to end) he was after so much. nirvana is nothing other than atheistic death

Read the Dhammapada

pic related on recommendation from here

The urge for annihilation is just another form of thirst for becoming, it must be let go just like other unhealthy urges.

That doesn't make any fucking sense.
I know Buddhists aren't the brightest lights in the ballpark at the best of times but stop making them look dumb by talking shit

read some sutras

Read my asshole fuckwit

silly fucker. can't even begin to grasp basic concepts. back to your magic sky man, mental semite.

Gladly

Buddha bashing is the one of the only thing Freddy was good for

>considering converting to Buddhism
How about sit on it for at least 10 years.

Walk the lines shared by all religions to truly see.

Buddhist here. You don't have to convert to the religion of Buddhism to be one. Ours is less a religion than a living philosophy of peace and understanding as well as a certain amount of mental and physical enlightenment through meditation and fitness.

You need to not post until you know what you're talking about.

>hurr knowing enough = agreeing with me

He clearly has a thorough knowledge of Buddhism to be speaking on the subject, if you don't like his conclusions tough shit

Me too, though you can strictly speaking be accepted into refuge of Buddhism through a monk. Or even by self-initiation :

"All you need is to have an earnest, sincere mind, repent your transgressions before your home altar for seven consecutive days and express the wish to receive the precepts by yourself. On the seventh day, you should kneel before a Buddha image and say aloud:

“Your disciple, by the name of [x], vows to receive the five precepts and fulfill the obligations of a laywoman. I vow that for the rest of my life, I will not take the lives of sentient beings, steal, indulge in sexual misconduct, lie or take intoxicants.”

Repeating these vows three times constitutes receiving the precepts. The most important thing is to do so in an utterly sincere frame of mind – in which case, the benefits and virtues of receiving the precepts are the same whether you do so by yourself or through a monk or nun." (Patriarch Yin Kuang)

OP, avoid secular buddhism, it's a western corruption of the Dharma.

No, he doesn't. He has described Buddhism as a patient suicide when it's more like a peaceful annihilation of the individual mind. There's a major difference. One's an escape and the other an acceptance.

Thats simply your own interpretive description of the same process. How is suicide not be called the ultimate act of acceptance?

ZOROASTRIANISM IS THE TRUE ORIGINAL PATH

Because it is ultimately an act of the ego rejecting reality. It is not peaceful or accepting, it is violent.

Thats nonsensical, death is part of reality. Suicide can be a peaceful acceptance of it. Its simply the logical means towards the minimization of suffering which any Buddhist strives for

You should probably read up on Buddhism before jumping to your so called "logical" conclusions.

>if you read what I read then you'd agree with me

No, they will simply be reborn.

>"Do not think, furthermore, that to commit suicide is to free yourself of the cares and worries of this life! Once dead, your soul will be led away by the power of karma to be reborn in another body".

Categorically incorrect in the context of the Buddhist dharma.

>No, they will simply be reborn.

You're projecting your own insecurities. The ultimate acceptance is to live under the solitary motive of love. Suicide is not an acceptance. It is either a duty or an ignorance. The only acceptance in honorless suicide is of one's own lack in faith of themselves.

Now you just sound a normie, surprised you haven't said just b urself. What a crock of shit

I'd say it, but I know that you have no idea who you really are. So it wouldn't matter, and you'd be your own mockery.

Yeah yeah, go suck a big fat cock reddit. There's no need for your pretentious anti-intellectual drivel here

One of us is actually saying anything. To be funny, I'll let you decide who it is.

>not raised Christian because my not very religious parents felt like "I should decide on my own"
>read the Bible and feel like I like Christianity and the cultural aspect of it all
I'm not baptized, but I would like to be
This is problematic because I'm not sure how to go about that, especially since I sort of feel myself drawn to Orthodox Christianity

Please someone shake me out of it or tell me what to do so I don't act like a fucking retard and do dumb shit
I'm just a simple minded idiot

There are no decisions that need to be made, simply trust what you know as true through reason and let your works in the Spirit prove your faith.