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kontextmaschine:

fruityyamenrunner:

kontextmaschine:

You know, “suffering is a choice, just don’t choose to” gets dismissed as juvenile pretty often for like, the central pillar of Buddhism.

insufferable ancient rationalist cult for the artisan and merchant classes of second urbanisation india arises (“turns out religion and the gods are fake and you can just live in communes governed by sensible rules and think your way out of suffering!”).

edgy unhindu ratphyg grows hinduoid religions around it to the delight of millions of asians for millennia.

Euro-American rationalist discovers delightful asian religions, uncovers rationalist cult at the core. laughs at Asians. now believes “suffering is irrational” and “just think yourself happy” are the deep truths of asia. many such cases!

“Wandering princeling” is like failson Lv. 99

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Anyway I’ve actually studied the introduction and spread of Buddhism in Japan, Pure Land and Zen and that one that just repeats “the Lotus Sutra” to itself (and not like, the Lotus Sutra) into all the “new religious movements” of the postwar era that most of the scholarly Western idea of “cults” is based off, so no illusions here.

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