what the fuck is buddhism “oh it’s about avoiding the cycle of pleasure and suff-” how is that different from from wanting to kill yourself with extra steps explain what buddhism is to me i’ll fucking kill you
If you ever are walking on a road and meet the Buddha, you should kill him. You are more Buddhist than you realize.
Buddhism is about the cessation of suffering. Suffering, in the buddhist view, is caused by attachment. There are three kinds of craving that lead to attachment, the longing to satisfy your senses (with sex, food, music, drugs, love, family, I could go on but its a long list), the longing to be something and self-actualize, and the longing for self-negation (read: death and suicide). Craving the cessation of existence is just another vector for attachment and suffering. Buddha called his way "The Middle Path" because it was a way between Extreme Abnegation and Pure Hedonism - both of which he found were not able to fulfill him or satisfy his cravings. It's something you know in your own life, even when times are good there is always a feeling that things are not quite satisfactory.
So Buddhism teaches that this suffering/non-satisfaction is a state that can be ended and gives you the tools to do it by. Become non-attached. The practice of Buddhism offers a number of ways to becoming non-attached, meditate and go to a temple and study, recognize the dignity and sanctity of all life and put that recognition into practice through vegetarianism for example, meditate and suddenly become enlightened, do certain rituals that help focus your mind on non-attachment, read through certain texts like the Heart Sutra, meditate on incomprehensible Zen Koans after sitting in a hard ass pose for 10 hours, and so on. But the goal of it is to end the suffering in your own life by becoming non-attached (cravings are inevitable but you don't have to let cravings become attachment).
If you ever are walking on a road and meet the Buddha, you should kill him. You are more Buddhist than you realize.
Buddhism is about the cessation of suffering. Suffering, in the buddhist view, is caused by attachment. There are three kinds of craving that lead to attachment, the longing to satisfy your senses (with sex, food, music, drugs, love, family, I could go on but its a long list), the longing to be something and self-actualize, and the longing for self-negation (read: death and suicide). Craving the cessation of existence is just another vector for attachment and suffering. Buddha called his way "The Middle Path" because it was a way between Extreme Abnegation and Pure Hedonism - both of which he found were not able to fulfill him or satisfy his cravings. It's something you know in your own life, even when times are good there is always a feeling that things are not quite satisfactory.
So Buddhism teaches that this suffering/non-satisfaction is a state that can be ended and gives you the tools to do it by. Become non-attached. The practice of Buddhism offers a number of ways to becoming non-attached, meditate and go to a temple and study, recognize the dignity and sanctity of all life and put that recognition into practice through vegetarianism for example, meditate and suddenly become enlightened, do certain rituals that help focus your mind on non-attachment, read through certain texts like the Heart Sutra, meditate on incomprehensible Zen Koans after sitting in a hard ass pose for 10 hours, and so on. But the goal of it is to end the suffering in your own life by becoming non-attached (cravings are inevitable but you don't have to let cravings become attachment).
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