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View submission: Buddhism is NOT life-denying.
Seeing life as an illusion has nothing to do with nihilism. Also nihilism is often mis-understood, but regardless, it’s very different from Buddhism. In Buddhism life is an illusion SORT OF in a sense, but knowing that doesn’t do u any good. Buddhism believes that regardless of what life is, you have to live it either way, so you need to take action and responsibility for how you live your life. If you were to think being Buddhist means “oh life is an illusion I’ll do whatever I want,” your doing almost the exact opposite of Buddhism
Comment by 2bitmoment at 21/01/2025 at 22:04 UTC
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Seeing life as an illusion has nothing to do with nihilism.
Nothing? I think what I'm getting at is that to nihilists there is no truth. There is no substance. There is no nothing.
If you were to think being Buddhist means “oh life is an illusion I’ll do whatever I want,” your doing almost the exact opposite of Buddhism
"you're"
but ummm... I don't know. I read a book by a certain Katagiri and he said "do not kill" - one of the precepts was basically meaningless because there never is a clear line between life and death.
I think a similar thing happens with "If you see a buddha on the road, kill him".
“ ‘If you kill your parents, you repent before Buddha; if you kill Buddha, where do you repent?’ Yunmen said, ‘Exposed.’” This case study is like a hot iron ball in the mind, and I suffered all kinds of trouble for seven years. Those of you who have studied Zen for a long time will know what I mean.
Or in this separate case. Is it possible to repent after killing buddha?
In Buddhism life is an illusion SORT OF in a sense, but knowing that doesn’t do u any good.
Maybe the specifics matter. Maybe not 🙏🏽