/lit/ - Literature

How can religions that advocate for a nonjudgemental mindset to be the first priority reasonably also advocate for a specifically ethical code of conduct? Doesn't this run counter to the idea of not judging actions as bad or good?

What does advaita vedanta assert that is at odds with Buddhism? Their obvious difference is that Buddhism goes to great lengths to assert the nonexistence of a Self (anatta), as conceived by the hindus. To me, the non-self seems indistinguishable from the idea of a transcendent, inaccessible self, though.

I realize the vedas deify "awareness", though. This is a difference I can't reconcile with buddhist thought as they explicitly view the phenomenon of awareness as a result of the skandhas. But that doesn't deny that an inaccessible and transcendent "self", devoid of describable experience is indistinguishable from a non-self to anyone not having experienced it.