Meditation, and my issues with Buddhism.
Hey if it works for you great, but for me it just seems like a waste of time. I've tried a meditation regiment many a time and I haven't really had even incremental benefits. I guess for some people it works and for others not so much. In fact for some people it's even harmful! I guess one man's meat is anothers poison. Strange as that may seem.
I think Buddhism gets a lot of things right. I mean the fact that life is hellish suffering and that no object or any amount of glory in this world is worth attaining/clinging to. That is self-evident, and it is either the very young or foolish who think otherwise.
Then again, coming to the insight that life is suffering isn't even that profound or original. Many have come before who have made this conclusion long before Buddha, and the Upanishads/Bhagavad Gita can be both duly noted in having denounced the striving for worldly pleasures as vain and inherently unsatisifying.
Originality is not the issue here though, it's Buddha's prescription, which is about as effective as an antidepressant, a placebo at best (or in most cases not at all). Both are based off of nonsensical reasoning, for how does one stop desiring to desire? Isn't that a desire? How does one stop forming attachments? How can one live without forming attachments? Finally, who can honestly follow all of the eightfold path towards enlightment till the day they die? The five precepts? Not many.
And then we get into Buddhisms ethics, which are touted as being some of the highest in the world, but when I look at them I think they are just as absurd as any other, if not more ridiculous. Take the 5 unforgivable sins for example: Matricide, Patricide, causing schism in the society of Sangha and injuring a Buddha. Sounds good right? Now wait a second, let's look at some of these a bit more closely.
Sooo I can kill anyone (even anyone in my own family, as long as it's not my own mother and father of course!) and still achieve enlightenment? A mother/father who strangles their own baby in it's crib can still be forgiven? A man like Angulimala who murdered 999 people can become an Arhant? Just as long as his 1000th victim wasn't his own mother? The buddhist stance on killing becomes even more absurd when you look at the Mata and Pita Suttas.
But I guess I'm going to one of the Hell realms for potentially causing a schism amongst the Buddha's followers. All it takes it the right question to cause such a thing. Funny stance for someone who said "don't believe in something just because I said it".
Or how in the Buddha preaches compassion yet when he gave a lecture in Vesaali on his disgust of the human body and how it decomposes which caused a chain reaction of mass suicides amongst the Bhikkus, he remained strangely cold, and claimed he was doing it for their own well being. He couldn't help that they were bound for suicide by their Karma. A very compassionate response for a being who denounces suicide!
Another thing I don't like about about Buddhism is how it seems to hop the fence between the universe being deterministic vs nondeterministic! At least from what I read. (Hint: It's very very very likely it's determistic)
Buddhism is fear based just like any other religion. Don't follow the Darmha? Don't believe in Karma or follow the rules? Don't believe in rebirth? Get ready for what may as well be an eternity in the hell realms! Don't believe us? Well you're wrong until we're proven incorrect! Which is never going to happen because Buddhism is faith based!
And that's just some of the problems I have with Buddhism. I think it's stupid how people say Buddhism is optimistic when it is almost as cruel as any other religion. Is it scientific? Past, present and future lives have never been proven by science, so shut your god damn mouth Dalai Lama! Go back to reminiscing about the days of when you had slaves and a palace of luxury!
I am expecting the typical: "These aren't the droids you're looking for" responses from your average Buddhist, but hopefully they'll be some of you who are open minded.
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