The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131699   Message #2974179
Posted By: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
27-Aug-10 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
"Buddhism is the same old bullshit in a different box basically; it aspires to enlightenment, elitism and fabricates a spiritual hierachy"

It suggests that if you already aspire to self-realisation and you want to put in the work you then can find out for yourself. There are no special individuals, only people who have an inner impulse to change, simply because they want to. The proof is in the pudding. It's not a matter of faith but observable results to techniques that have been developed over thousands of years. Anyone can choose to suck it and see if they want to, or not if they don't. Buddhists don't proselityse or seek to covert people, or tell them that they will suffer in any way if they don't happen to share that impulse. I don't aspire to climb mount everest or sail the world solo, that drive isn't in me and I don't get it, but it doesn't bug me that other people do.