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As long as you're under 55 and a heterosexual you can arrange everything here:

https://ordinationthai.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-UPMYHavZk

This is true only for conditioned states of existence

>>16397256
>is this stance universal to all buddhist sects?
yes

>Because it's absurd on its face
you just lack an understanding of it

>So you don't get humour either?
you got the whole squad laughin

>If Buddhism is supposed to be useful and serve the goals of men, yeah. Unless you can show that they're wrong.
Buddhism is useful to achieve enlightenment

>Because ceasing to exist and have experiences is literally the atheistic notion of death
atheists have no concept of after death

>The problem is precisely that you start saying "of course Nirvana is desirable, it's the end of suffering",
ending all suffering is pretty desirable.

>since it's also the end of every conscious experience including pleasant ones, and people desire those
what makes you think I or the Buddha or Buddhist philosophy cares what people "desire"

>you say "but those desires are wrong". Well show it
yeah the Buddha did 2500 years ago
clinging leads to attachment to samsara

>That's not why they don't kill themselves, since they don't think they get reborn.
ok?

>So why don't they kill themselves, since it would end their sufferings?
because they're scared of death

Read the Vedas and accept enlightenment

Do Buddhists do anything as a religion other than read and meditate?
It seems like that is just a component of something that could be larger.
For example there is a lot more to Christianity other than reading the bible and prayer even though that's a big part

>>15653658
suffering is a spook worldfag

>copies buddhism

*blocks your path*

Should I read The Dhammapada or Upanishads? I plan on studying both Hinduism and Buddhism (and maybe Christianity and some fringe occultism), but I’m not sure which one would serve as a better introduction into metaphysics.