I'm not trying to do a hate speech, but I'm just stating what I believe to be the truth. And I think that truth need to be shared about.
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So, here goes....
Buddhism is pioneered by a hermit that originally a royalty, that later renounced his inherited life of pleasure and pursued the ascetics life, in a quest to evade death.
Siddhartha Gautama, was born from rhe Sakhya clan, a ruling clan for around 2 centuries in the ancient Indian subcontinent, born in Lumbini, which is believed to located in Nepal.
The four turning point in Siddhartha's life is him seeing the four stages of life: birth, old age, illness and death.
The young prince is afraid of death, and hence leaving his life and become a wandering ascetic in a quest to simply 'not dying', which later on turned into a coined term 'samsara' the way of the world of death and rebirth, which is bounded by what a person did in their life, dictating their next path on their next life.
So, Gautama, being enlighten by this truth, proposed a new way of mental discipline.
Yes, they all basically a sets of mental discipline that attempted to tame the human nature of wickedness, in hope of attaining a higher state of mind, which, according to Buddhism, will lead us to be born in a better realm, finally, stopping completely our numerous cycle of dewth and rebirth, simply attaining a state of emptyness known as nibbana, where a human finally stop entering samsara, finally freed from death.
This very concept is what initially drawn me toward Buddhism, as they seemed ludicrous in their simplicity and their unceasing way of promoting kindness to all beings.
Yes, I said beings, because in Buddhism, they are supposed to love all beings, not just animals, but also ghost, demons, devas, and many other invisible ethereal being that was believed to be born as their current form because of their karma, so if they were lower realm beings such as hungry ghost, insects, even demons in hell realm
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Truthfully I see the Buddhism as a continuation from Hinduism, as originally Buddhism came out of Hinduism, and settle their own school of thought, but basically some of the basis concepts are pretty much similar.
As time immemorial, death and birth is the constant for all live, but in Hinduism and Buddhism, they linked the two phenomenon, to answer the question about what's next after death.
That's the origin of the concept of samsara which become the base supporting claim for reincarnation, a person is 'recycled' and rebirthed into another creature, be it human, or animal, or another entirely different beings.
So, go return about how I see Buddhism after initially exposed to the religion and also while consciously learn about their belief, I can simply conclude my points into several focal point, for simplicity sake.
First, about creation.
While Christian believe that God created the whole universe, and Hindu believe that the three primordial gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, Buddhism doesn't bother about it at all.
The universe is created by the law of nature, and that's all there is that need to be known about.
Second, about the existence of God.
Most religion believe of the existence of Supreme Being, known as God. Buddhism, that's different story.
Buddha, or also known as Siddhartha Gautama, doesn't really believe in deity or god.
So, in other way, Gautama claimed that he isn't going to bother to argue about the existence of a god or not, or which god is the real God or isn't, but he completed switch his attention to what is the urgency at hand, to cultivate one's mind, pursuing enlightenment.
Modern Buddhism did acknowledged about the existence of supernatural figures, that may help or hinder a person in their enlightenment. But that's all there is to it.
Third and lastly, about prayer.
Most mainstream Buddhism believe that prayer is an act of worship toward a supernatural figure, and in turn asked those entities to grant the person in what they asked.
Buddhism doesn't agree with prayer. Buddha himself quote and quote, suggest the laymen to rather work for the things he asked about rather than spending much time asking some supernatural beings to aid them in certain matters.
So, to conclude from my three points here, I can simply conclude that traditionally, Buddhism focused only on how to cultivate oneself and what mattered most is the end goal of cultivating the self, enlightenment.
Why bother about gods and goddesses, why pray to them to ask for this and that, let just work ourselves to achieve whatever we asked about by our own effort.
And the end of this disciplinary training to tame one self is the erasure of our egos by letting the self trained to not wanting anything, hence not feeding our greeds and wills, and attain the enlightenment.
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Here where I contradicted with this version of belief.
Why?
It sounded familiar to me nowadays.
Isn't that's the main propaganda that is being campaigned by the modern day atheists?
They don't believe in God, they believed in the main of man-power, they believed in humanity.
They are bitter with this world, and hence trying to better the world through the power of humanity.
That is for the short version.
The long arguments, won't be quoted much, but I will quote the Bible here.
Psalms 14:1
(RNKJV) The fool hath said in his heart, There is no Elohim. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Jeremiah 17: 5
(RNKJV) Thus saith YHVH; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from YHVH.
Psalms 19:1-4
(RNKJV) The heavens declare the glory of El; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
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Three quotes is quite explaining and despite much more claims from the Bible to back up about what I'm about to explain, I think the 3 quotes is already resourceful enough.
The Bible quotes that only fools claimed in their heart deep down, that God is non existent, there is no God.
Many arguments can be spew and bantered about their claim is wrong and God is truly exist. It's even harder to believe that we all came from a single cell entity and through billions of timespan, evolved into how we are today, a living and complex being, with emotion and thinking mind.
Hence, my claim is, by defying that God isn't really exist or somewhere along the gray territory of is there or isn't there a God, is counted as the same as not believing in any at all. And they are simply, a fool according to the Bible.
Second, human are corrupt since the introduction of sin into the world. All that we can think about is basically sinning and continuously sinning diligently.
And through sin, death is dawned upon all creation. Hence we died in the end, all things died at their respective ends.
Hence, by trying to find a new solution to this 'death' is simply a foolish action, and moreover by trying to propose that the cure of not dying is by 'auditing' our self from all desires, good and evil, is simply not convincing enough.
At its best, by leaving the layperson life, and becoming a hermit, or in this case, a Buddhist monk, renouncing the pleasure of life and abstaining from the illusion of pleasure, were a vain attempt, as if trying to grasp the thin air inside your palm, or bagging the sea with a small punctured waterskin.
Sin is introduced to the world because human choose to disobey God and hence 'missed' from the very purpose of God creating the universe and us humankind.
And death is the very consequence for sin.
Like it or not, despite not agreeing this doctrine, we all going to die sooner or later, and what mattered most here is what's next laid out waiting us.
God, in his just and wrath for sin is...
What awaits a sinner after their death, is the second death, the complete and utterly bitter eternal separation from God, the truest death by definition.
And by thinking in that deviance of misconception that there will be another chance in the next life, that reincarnation is possible is simply foolish.
Let's make a scenario in our thinking process.
Let say, if I become a cruel cold-blooded serial murderer, God defying in all possible cause and to all ends, and with a chance of relifing another chance to repent and through some gazillions of rebirth and death process. It will be fair enough of a reason for a person to at least try to be this abomination of evil being at least once.
Good enough huh?
So, the serial murder from today's era, will only faced with death sentence in this life, their tickets for their karmic reincarnation of repeatedly birthed in lower realm, by being a cockroach, snails, predating animals, evil ghost, or even the depicted lowest being in Buddhism hierarchy, a preta, the kind of ghost birthed with a mouth in the size of a needle hole, which lived on waste secretions of living beings.
Well, that's horrible enough of an example. But let say that turned out and won't it be quite a reasonable reasoning, that since we got to have all the infinite chance for trying in the next life, then we all losed the main truth, that since God doesn't exist, then why bother to even be a Buddha, attaining the enlightenment to stop the birth and death cycle. Of living infinitely is quite a ludicrous offer on it's own.
Wrong, there is no proof for reincarnation, they were foolish and corrupt by nature. Sin brought that delusional luxury to the need of fallen human, and by thinking that there might be another infinity try offer is the utter deviance to God, and that's not going to spare you from the wrath of God.
And third, the very definition of trusting in man, is by yielding all effort to the cause of man, and that's an abominable by it's own.
We are proven to be weak and feeble, we are prone to greed, and corrupt at heart.
If we lay our trust solely in the power of human flesh, that is one way ticket to misery for sure.
What we perceive as happiness is temporal state.
We thirst, and we drink to quench it, but we come to be thirsty again sooner or later.
We got happy for some achievement in life, or because we obtain something precious in value in our possession.
But when the source of joy is taken from us, we are fallen to misery.
We are created not to depend on things of impermanence, that's the sole reason that we are created by God, to depend on Him, and Him alone.
Imagine again, a blind man trying to lead the way, for another blind man. Won't that be sad? You as a blind person, put your trust on the person that you think isn't blind, while you put your trust in him, and you both walk on your way, and you both fell in a hole.
That is ironic, that's where the irony laid on.
And even more so, with the famous quotes of this poor man named himself Buddha, the enlightened.
Ehipassiko
Literally translated in English as: come, look and feel, and proof it yourself.
You come and follow my path, and draw you conclusion after you follow it by yourself.
When will the conclusion be finally concluded then?
Later, at the day of Judgment, where even Siddhartha will be brought to put on trial and doomed by his sin of unbelief.
There will be the saddest day for the humble and diligent novices of his that diligently promotes goodness to the world.
But for now, we are bound to draw our own conclusions in this very life we lived.
There is not going to be another life to try after this, only heaven or hell...
Reincarnation is only an illusion. A mere Fata Morgana, an optical illusion, that has been tricking many by twinkling the brightest from the void, while the dim truth about eternity faded away in comparison from this lucrative false offer.
There is God, God exist before eternity, God is beyond everything, and God created the universe, and that God, created us, but we rebelled against Him, and we sinned, so we are heading toward our own undoing of sinning, yet the same God sent His only Son, the second nature of God, incarnated into the form of a humble servant, living a life of a human, yet at the same time Jesus is fully God, yet still choose to obey the Law of God, and died for the ransom of humanity, the price of sin, death. On the third day, Jesus rose from the grave, proving His Godhood, as God isn't bound by death. And Jesus returns to heaven, and He promised to return on the day of Judgment, as the Judge of all creation, delivering the price we deserve for our sins.
That, is the Truth.
And that is all it takes for human to be saved from the soon coming wrath of God for sin. By simply believe, that Jesus died by crucifixion, the cruelest and utmost painful method of capital punishment at his time under the Roman empire law. And simply that believing is what it takes for us to be saved, not the long winded vain effort of human disciplinary to calm the thought of mind, eliminating all desires, sensual pleasure, wickedness, ignorance, and pride. None of them stuff.
Those good and loving kindness discipline is simply not good enough for us to safe ourselves from the wrath of God.
We all sinned by nature, even the purest of innocent child is not really innocent at all, they know how to lie on themselves when put under the spot by other people, they even know how to opt to punching or biting when they are in desperation. That is the very proof that human is diligently sinning since birth. So none will be spared when the upcoming Wrath of God is poured out to this world.
And, that's another Truth..
And how saddening is the day, when the man claimed to be enlightened that manage in developing this new system of salvation of his which through the millennium manage to gather a huge crowds of followers, will be brought to the court where Jesus reigns supreme as the Judge.
A blind man will never be able to lead another blind man without any of them not bumping on obstacles on their way.
And that is also the Truth....
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