Be Careful! Re: Hinduism and Buddhism

[Debater Slayer]

If anyone tells you that Hinduism and Buddhism are cool religions, don't believe them! This is just a claim by Big Dharma to get you to follow their beliefs.

(Also, technically, wasn't Buddha "Big Brother" according to all of those chubby statues of him? There! Irrefutable evidence!)

 

[sun rise]

And the trickery goes further. Buddhism is all about an intellectual understanding about suffering, the root of suffering and how to get rid of suffering. But where would we all be without suffering? We'd never have developed civilization and a million ways of causing suffering to each other, to animals and to Mother Earth without the original suffering what we dimly felt while being chomped by carnivores.

We thought it was our duty (aka dharma) to stop that suffering by creating highly technological suffering instead.

Meanwhile Buddha sits around and laughs (Laughing Buddha - look it up). Would you trust someone who just laughs and laughs and laughs all the time? Someone who is not wearing enough clothes and clearly has an obesity problem?

Don't like that? Then there's austerities of every kind where people deliberately suffer because of all the powers (siddhis) they'll acquire as they study to be the next "Darth".

 

[Twilight Hue]

It's all hero worship. It's has groupies and everything.

Those comfortable cushions, people in pajamas, the pleasant smell of incense in the air..... one thing leads to another......

 

[Twilight Hue]

And the trickery goes further. Buddhism is all about an intellectual understanding about suffering, the root of suffering and how to get rid of suffering. But where would we all be without suffering? We'd never have developed civilization and a million ways of causing suffering to each other, to animals and to Mother Earth without the original suffering what we dimly felt while being chomped by carnivores.

We thought it was our duty (aka dharma) to stop that suffering by creating highly technological suffering instead.

Meanwhile Buddha sits around and laughs (Laughing Buddha - look it up). Would you trust someone who just laughs and laughs and laughs all the time? Someone who is not wearing enough clothes and clearly has an obesity problem?

Don't like that? Then there's austerities of every kind where people deliberately suffer because of all the powers (siddhis) they'll acquire as they study to be the next "Darth".

It's that elusive enlightenment people are chasing after. No wonder suffering exists.

 

[Alienistic]

(Also, technically, wasn't Buddha "Big Brother" according to all of those chubby statues of him? There! Irrefutable evidence!)

 

[epronovost]

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That's not Buddah, that's Budai. They aren't the same guy at all.

 

[Alienistic]

That's not Buddah, that's Budai. They aren't the same guy at all.

Still considered the laughing Buddha or fat Buddha, as perhaps I am wrong but there are many Buddha’s or anyone enlightened according to practices can be considered a Buddha?

 

[mangalavara]

(Also, technically, wasn't Buddha "Big Brother" according to all of those chubby statues of him? There! Irrefutable evidence!)

That chubby or fat 'Buddha' that Westerners are familiar with was a ninth century CE Chinese monk known as Bùdài in Chinese and Hotei in Japanese. Many adherents of a Chinese form of Buddhism venerate him. He is, of course, not the same person as the Buddha whom all Buddhists take refuge in. The Buddha, also known as Gautama Buddha and Shakyamuni Buddha, was from Nepal and he lived during the fifth to fourth century BCE.

Bùdài aka Hotei.

Gautama Buddha.

 

[Aupmanyav]

The Buddha, also known as Gautama Buddha and Shakyamuni Buddha, was from Nepal and he lived during the fifth to fourth century BCE.

Let us not forget that Piparahwa, District Siddhartha Nagar, in Uttar Pradesh, India, also has claims as the birth place of Buddha, which was relinquished to Nepal by Nehru as a brotherly gesture (since we had Bodh Gaya and Sarnath). Piperahwa has one of the eight earliest stupas among which Buddha's ashes were divided. It has its Kapilavastu Park and Siddhartha University, a fort in Gulabgarh and a lake, Majhouli. Not far from Kapilavastu in Nepal across the India-Nepal border.

Piprahwa vase with four other reliquaries of the Buddha discovered at Pipeahwa. The inscription reads ...salilanidhane Budhasa Bhagavate... "Relics of the Buddha Lord". The British government divided these relics between Srilanka, Myanmar and Thailand Piprahwa - Wikipedia

Note: Birdpur in the map could actually be 'Vriddhapur" meaning 'the Old Town'. 'Bihara' in the first map will mean a seminary.