Viability1936

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by Viability1936 8d ago
Why do you say that - are you referencing something specific or just a point about his framing of existence? I just finished "a short history of decay"
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by Viability1936 2mo ago
He doesn't, really at all. Even in his labeled buddhist lectures. Its more a new age blend of advaita vedanta/hinduisim/zen (kind of), but really kind of just his own creation. I'm the least familiar with actual advaita,
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by Viability1936 2mo ago
I think there's a lot of comparison between existensialism and buddhism because a few of them seemed to respect the buddh, but also as far as philosophy goes, they were the closest to understanding the problem (similar to how the buddh
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by Viability1936 2mo ago
I mean no offense if this the practice you've settled on and it works for your goals in life, but that is absolutely not what the buddha taught. It took me a long time to learn that what burbea was teaching is not 'buddhist'
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by Viability1936 2mo ago
Camus saw the problem (or got close to it) but kept it. He noticed the craving for meaning, noticed the world won't answer it, and then chose to hold on to the craving anyway and call that defiance freedom. That's just suffering w
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by Viability1936 3mo ago
Probably because it's quickly becoming the only reasonable option on mobile
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by Viability1936 1y ago
What hardware did you go with? I was thinking of getting the second most recent glinet to run openwrt, but haven't convinced myself it's worth it since my current tplink is still pretty new and is just be getting it to tinker (I d
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by Viability1936 4y ago
To be frank, they are entirely different religions. Vajrayana is essentially Tibetan bon mixed with Hinduism. Some of the most obvious differences are the rules for the monks. In vajrayana once you reach a certain state of enlightenment or
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by Viability1936 4y ago
That might be true if there were millions of people practicing a school of Christianity based on only what Jesus taught. As far as I know, there isn't, and isn't even a school based on that. Aside from that, what's described
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by Viability1936 4y ago
It's very weird seeing people online have debates about Buddhism that actually have nothing to do with what the historical Buddha taught. Everything mentioned in the article and most comments here are akin to making arguments against C