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Please help me find a philosophy/spirituality/etc. | by oot | 2014-02-08 16:33:27 |
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A Buddhist friend taught me that it's not static.. | by firehawk | 2014-02-08 17:35:42 |
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by oot |
2014-02-08 18:07:42 |
There are certain teachings that I just cannot accept, and some of them are pretty fundamental to Buddhism:
1. No self. If there is pain, there is an entity to have the pain. Maybe not a permanent, fixed entity like a soul acting in the world, but the fact that you exist in a state of continuous change doesn't mean that you don't exist. Carrying that view to its conclusion, when someone has a broken leg it would be more important to remind them that there is no self to feel the pain than it is to get them painkillers and set the bone. And that... feels like nonsense.
2. Severing all desire/attachment/clinging. I think that some of it is worthwhile, even if it does sometimes hurt.
3. Taking the no-killing thing to an extreme. If a wasp gets into my apartment, I genuinely do not see what is wrong with killing it, as long as I do so quickly and don't leave it to suffer half-squashed.
...maybe I just understand certain doctrines wrongly and need to find some time to talk to a Buddhist teacher about all of these things (and probably not the same one I had been seeing) but I am afraid that holding these views is fundamentally incompatible with Buddhism, and I don't think that I am likely to ever change them. |
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what forms of Buddhism have you explored? | by morenna | 2014-02-08 18:25:00 |
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Been to four places | by oot | 2014-02-08 18:57:33 |
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A thought | by shargo | 2014-02-08 19:25:31 |
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Thanks. I may take time off work go visit | by oot | 2014-02-08 19:34:33 |
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You're welcome. And I forgot a thing | by shargo | 2014-02-08 19:38:26 |
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Yes indeed! | by firehawk | 2014-02-08 20:02:29 |
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And more {{{oot}}}; Alan Watts, the philosophical | by pbarnrob | 2014-02-09 14:55:55 |
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(you know the Dalai Lama eats meat, right?) | by morenna | 2014-02-08 19:03:10 |
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Thank you | by oot | 2014-02-08 19:40:39 |
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{{{oot}}} | by morenna | 2014-02-08 19:53:48 |
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Thank you {{{morenna}}} | by oot | 2014-02-08 19:58:48 |
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Check out the other articles on that site I linked | by firehawk | 2014-02-08 20:03:54 |
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A wasp is caught as easily as killed. | by tonyz | 2014-02-08 18:48:02 |
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I catch-and-release flies and beetles | by oot | 2014-02-08 19:19:17 |
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PS. I know there's treatments available | by oot | 2014-02-08 19:29:25 |
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I have a big plastic pretzel container... | by tonyz | 2014-02-08 20:41:18 |
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And I just reach out and pick the critter up, | by wwill | 2014-02-08 21:21:37 |
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Please look over your last statement. It is wrong | by tonyz | 2014-02-08 20:00:47 |
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What he said. (n/t) | by firehawk | 2014-02-08 20:05:36 |
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Thank you. Thank you very much. *HUGS* (n/t) | by oot | 2014-02-08 20:11:23 |
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PS. Thank you for sharing your experiences | by oot | 2014-02-08 19:51:07 |
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...well, first off I didn't feel dismissed. | by tonyz | 2014-02-08 20:20:21 |
