/lit/ - Literature

>>18357257
>I'd appreciate reading recomendations in relation to buddhist ethics/morality in a contemporary western context.
Get one of those Amazon best-sellers about dharma being American racial activism. If you're that obsessed with the most menial branch of philosophy you should go back to whatever church you left.

>>17450015
This article almost reads like a stream of consciousness. I genuinely enjoyed reading it but if you have no foundation in what the author is talking about it would be impossible to parse. I suspect he may be enlightened.

>>17289700
>it's not fair for the Buddha to use superpowers during his debate with God and call God out for being an illusion of permanency
I have the MN five feet away from me and just skimmed 49 over; it is a very short sutta in which Brahma is called delusional for holding the view of permanence, a view challenged in all over the place in other parts of the canon anyway. That this particular sutta pays lip service to it but then also assimilates Brahma to Mara is the main point here, not to offer the six hundredth argument for impermanence. If the best argument against Buddhism you can come up with is a sectarian sutta in the MN making a mockery of God by giving Buddha more powers than him, the only reason to be upset would be that you actually believe in the omniscient creator God, which makes this supernatural fairy tale somehow logically wrong and your supernatural fairy tale logically correct.

>>16393985
>Fuck off vegan tranny. Meat is absolutely essential for human health.
its not
even if it was Buddhism does not teach optimization of human health. Buddhism teaching that all things are impermanent and through non clinging suffering is over came
you are clinging to meat.

>Japan eats the most red meat and has an average life expectancy of 80 something and India eats the least and has an average life expectancy of 60 something.
I don't really care. has nothing to do with buddhism

>It will be impossible for us to evolve past it in any considerable amount of time, and anyway, there's always been ethical and ritualistic ways to kill animals.
pretty lofty claim there bud, you going to attempt to prove it?

>Can we also talk in general about how for the bulk of the population and for the next million years none of Buddhas final goals are feasibly attainable
>none of Buddhas final goals are feasibly attainable
"just trust me bro"

>People who ignore the Buddhists integral right hand path aspects of getting along with reality for the time being as opposed to only trying to escape it are what makes this harder than it has to be.
ironically this is what the Buddha taught

>Samsara is not meant to be escaped but rather conquered to begin with
incorrect,

>Samsara is also beyond time and space and conquers both infinitely and leaving it would just erase you from existence
Yes

>there's no true permanence ever anywhere
everything is burning the Buddha taught this

>For the sake of the Buddhist perspectives which are still inherently valid considerations and fine with this conclusion we need a lengthy and thoughtful approach to such achievements which Buddhism is better at than most faiths but still not immune to the chaoses in deep philosophy or of politics and foolish masses and the wills of nature
i don't think anyone argued otherwise

>Point being if humans are evolved to be powerful hunters who live off of meat then we have to eat meat, that's just our level in the game right now.
Yet we don't have to eat meat