Most millenial existential crisis' are just saying their buddhism is failing them, because that is the only guidance they ever considered and they didnt commit to it, so they find themselves saying shit like "there is no instruction manual for what im going through!" - Upgoat

Most millenial existential crisis' are just saying their buddhism is failing them, because that is the only guidance they ever considered and they didnt commit to it, so they find themselves saying shit like "there is no instruction manual for what im going through!"
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[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 3 monthsFeb 23, 2025 23:35:17 ago (+1/-0)

Buddhism has heaps of rules, adherents not following them are just under the presumption Buddhism means whatever you want it to mean. This is the garden variety Zen Buddhism, akin to feng shui nonsense found in interior decorator magazines.

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[ - ] ElementalPee 1 point 3 monthsFeb 24, 2025 01:21:42 ago (+1/-0)*

I don't know much about it but I briefly dated a young lady that grew up attending school at a Buddhist temple (she was white). She was a vegetarian based on the idea that you shouldn't kill things. Any time she'd accidentally kill a bug or something she would say a prayer about it. I don't know whether or not she was very good at Buddhism, but she was the only person I ever met in person where it didn't strike me as some BS affectation.

Incidentally, years later the school there decided to form a basketball team and competed against the team my son was on (just a local city thing for little kids) and the Buddhist kids, mainly Chinese, got wrecked. They turned the scoreboard off pretty early on. They just didn't have it in them to be aggressive on any level. Not sure what the actual final score was but it was something in the vicinity of infinity to 2.

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[ - ] puremadness 1 point 3 monthsFeb 24, 2025 04:32:48 ago (+1/-0)

That's an interesting distinction.
It would kind of insinuate that, from a strictly survival point of view, that Buddhist practices would be detrimental.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 3 monthsFeb 24, 2025 00:34:56 ago (+1/-0)

Worry about your own shit faggot.

[ - ] puremadness 1 point 3 monthsFeb 24, 2025 04:31:09 ago (+1/-0)

I find Buddhism interesting, but that doesn't mean they KNOW anything special.

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[ - ] deleted 0 points 3 monthsFeb 24, 2025 07:36:09 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Trope 2 points 3 monthsFeb 23, 2025 22:29:28 ago (+2/-0)

Many years ago, I had this bright idea that perhaps there are men older, wiser, and more successful than me.

And perhaps some of them have written books.

And I’ve been reading ever since.

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