B/c original Buddhism was formulated to solve a problem inherent to pan-Indic (c ~500 BCE) understanding of Life, The Universe & Everything.
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Siddhatta used yogic methods to develop a psychotechnology that if applied rigorously, would extinguish the flame that kept the moth coming back, lifetime after lifetime.
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Extremely noteworthy that Siddhattha (if he was indeed a real human) was a wealthy noble. He lived about as good as it got back in the Iron Age. He had everything in an earthly sense that people knew enough to want back then. He eventually arrived at wanting off the carousel
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Also super-duper noteworthy that Siddhattha was perhaps the first person in written history to be trauma-free as a child/adolescent, and then get MASSIVELY traumatized at twenty-nine.
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Three of the Four Sights must have rattled Siddhattha's cage super, super hard
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"Yeah. This kind of cold indifferent detachment is kinda the opposite of what I’m working towards. I have no idea about Buddhism but it seems some schools actually have this as their goal?" Basically, yes, some schools do.
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More cool than cold, more equanimous than indifferent, more unattached than detached. Subtle but essential distinctions.
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Well, all this is in the beholder's eye. Some people will find the results of practice in some styles to actually feel cold. And unattached. I am not going to say they are wrong to sense that.
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Those may be their experiences, but the goal is not to produce a state akin to deep depression or any other form of dukkha. That much is misleading.
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And, one of the insights that perhaps might have been present at the origin of tantric Buddhism is that renunciative practice *often* does induce those states (whether or not that's the goal). It almost reliably does in a certain % of ppl (again, even though that's not the goal)
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All sorts of practice will induce myriad varieties of states for different people. There was mention, however, that "deep depression" is not easily distinguishable from the goal of Buddhist practice, which fails to do justice to the intent and purpose of saṃvega, etc.
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