Comment on Pointless existence

zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  i’m pretty sure a nonreligious monasteary is just a commune

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• Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I read an interview once with Leonard Cohen, who, as you might remember, became a Buddhist monk. He stated that in the monastery, you’re free to do pretty much anything - in your free time. Listen to rock music, take drugs, no-one cares.
  It’s just that you don’t have any free time because every day is 100% structured.

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• novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not non-religious, but Buddhists don’t believe in god 🤷‍♂️ it’s something

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s way more complicated than that. Can depend on the sect, or even the individual. There’s a lot of Buddhist stereotypes that persist from how westerners first reported back about Buddhists to other westerners.

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    • novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I know, but still, the oldest schools of Buddhism don’t have anything that would equate to what we in the west consider a god, or gods.

      I know that in east asia, south-east Asia etc., there are schools of Buddhism that do have gods.

      But Buddhism being in many ways a rejection of brahamical religion in north india/nepal, also rejected the idea of gods when it first started to develop. I think that’s pretty uncontroversial no?

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  • sunbather@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    they dont believe in capital g God but buddhism has plenty of gods for sure

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    • novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Depends on the school of Buddhism sure. That’s true. Some don’t have anything resembling what we call God or even gods tho.

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