question: can you reach #Enlightenment without Motivation and Belief? What kind of way might that be? #trainAI #future
What do you think of this little summary? Or David Chapman’s “Vividness”? https://aeon.co/amp/essays/what-lies-behind-the-simplistic-image-of-the-happy-buddhist?__twitter_impression=true …
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Most of us in the west grapple with the idea of a religion can be non-theistic. "Buddhism’s image in pop culture is woefully deficient, more a reflection of our own history, culture and needs". Verifyable true. Lexiconical differences, our enthusiasm to embrace it, etc.
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I remember reading about Buddhist cosmology, and feeling deeply unsettled and amazed. It's remarkable, alien almost. I've read of monks, who have meditated for their entire lives, and quite calmly can point to a mountain their eyes can see, as 'objective reality'.
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Thanks for this. I'll preface with: I've learned more of buddhist philosophy, and am pretty ignoant re: Theravada or Mahayana or Tibettan buddhism. But.. is buddhism a faith? Arguably, an anti-faith. It's also non-theistic; the buddha thought gods were kinda a waste of time (!)
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Note that there are gods (devas) referenced in Buddhism. It is just that their supernatural powers don't include the ability to give meaning to our existence, as they do in the monotheist religions. And of course Buddhism-as-religion expects you to take some items on faith.
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