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>Because it does not deny or reject conventional reality, and conventional experience. Buddhism reaches emptiness via the dependent origination of apparent objects. It does not negate the conventional existence of them, just examines their absolute or final nature.
>Because of this acceptance of conventional reality and truth, Buddhism examines causality, morality, and consequence, specifically in the light of human suffering and liberation. This is far from nihilism, which is essentially the view that there is no consequence.

Is this literally just it? Buddhism posits the realness of things but that they have no essentiality because of dependent origination? Or is this completely off and dependent origination only applies to the mind, with reality-reality not left unaddressed?

Also, why do people who clearly cannot believe in any form of Buddhism, all of which are religious and include things that they summarily dismiss, insist on taking the name and aesthetic? It's bizarre.

>> No.16895362

>>16895324
Buddhism is actually nihilistic as fuck when it comes to practice. There are plenty of Buddhist cults in Asia where monks bury themselves alive and other edgy shit just to prove that they don't give a shit. There's a very fine line between complete self-annihilation and suicide, and many many Buddhists tread that line. Of course the milder incarnations of the practice are the ones that survive because, guess what, that's the form of any religion that thrives among the lays. Just spin the wheel and say "pls Amida save me".

>> No.16895363

>>16895324
>Buddhism posits the realness of things but that they have no essentiality because of dependent origination?
Kinda how European nihilist philosophers view reality. Buuuut you know Buddhism is not nihilism though!

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>>16895362
Also, self-mummification (Sokushinbutsu). Basically drinking arsenic water and small amounts of Japanese lacquer and other resins while starving to death and desiccating in a controlled way. That's pretty much the peak of edgy suicide. Imagine you do this and make your family watch :)