Please move this thread to the New-age forum. High BS levels are normal there!
I'm concerned that any actual Buddhists visiting here would be so overwhelmed by the stench that they'd never return.
"Buddha save me from new-agers!"
I think homophobia is male-based medieval bigotry, and it disgusts me how some "religious" types condone it. Its also curious how lesbians are invariably exempted from this mindless nonsense.
I don't think so, its comparing apples and oranges. To me Western and Eastern thought are fundamentally different. I don't need get the need to make them equivalent or parallel, why not just understand and respect the differences?
Again, this proselytizing is nothing to do with Buddhism, and probably belongs in the New-age forum.
As a general observation, why bother with a sub-forum structure if people ignore it?
If you want new people here, then you need to up your game.
What I do have is a finely-tuned BS monitor, and it's off-scale when reading your posts.
But I'd still be interested in a straight answer to my original question.
Do you think the OP sutta is describing some kind of continuing personal essence, and if so, how is that different from Atman...
Look at your post above at 10:21 for example.
You come across not as somebody who really wants to learn, but as somebody who is just trying to prop up an idiosyncratic belief system, spuriously claiming that various traditions agree with your view. You come across as a new-ager.
Clearly a lot better than you do. I'm not convinced you really want to learn about them though. If you want to learn, ask questions, don't proselytize your personal beliefs.
I would advise not posting on either Buddhist or Hindu forums with this kind of new-age nonsense, it will not be well-received. :p
Though ironically, if you really want to understand these traditions, that is probably what you need to do.
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