It's interesting to note that in classical Buddhist philosophy when one preferences either existence or non-existence it's a non-starter.https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/922482531403931649 …
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Replying to @VincentHorn
How do you square this with the Buddha's peculiar obsession with ending the cycle of birth and death?
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Replying to @KennethFolk
Not sure how to square it, honestly. It doesn't all hang together for me, which is why I got into Chan/Zen, Advaita Vedanta, & Vajrayana.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @KennethFolk
I love you and to me this is super damning and emblematic of a whole class of peeps who are too smart for the actual historical Buddha.
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'actual historical Buddha' is a tricky set of words, at least in so far as the people who are 'too smart' for old Sid are probably just too smart for the textual sources which developed several hundred years after his death....I guess.
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A point I always hear from my friends in the Maha/Vajrayana "BUDDHIST" communities. I used bait. Just see what I caught. A non-Buddhist.

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Heh. I'm just your friendly neighbourhood comparative religion geek.
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Ok, Jigme. What is that, Welsh?
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འཇིགས་མེད
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Ah. Cornish.
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That's the one.
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K night!

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