Clash of Ideas Lol the snub against the Chinese permeates the very primitive soul and consciousness of the "free world"

I drink 1 cup at the same instance every day. Generally.

--friction in sex better still.

Anyone can read a text...

Coffee takes away Calcium out of the body. Stupid Westerners

Nice - thank you!

Dear JJJ thanks cutting to the heart of it!

Maybe it's the Zen Buddhists way of teaching the world? Alan watts somewhat described Zen as surprise or shock. All I'm trying to say is that sometimes you need to see the homeless guy shitting in the street so that you can find peace within your own suffering.

Buddhism still exists in Korea. I thought Missionaries had taken over.

I myself also a Buddhist and ..this lecture is true as far as my knowledge

Why is that weird? A buddhist from Srilanka on youtube...

Well yes everything except the "God'' part since there's no God or godly figure in Buddhism. But if the Gods just mean powerful deities then I'm fine with it

@@viktor-reznov i guess budhists are people too like christians

I think Jordan P is Buhda - he is the awakened, who sees the World as it is and teaches people in the moral principles and do guidance on how to tackle life and sufflering.

@@emilstorgaard8878 🤡

Lmao

Jordan Peterson is secretly Dream. He uses a voice changer when he plays as Dream.

Maybe he liked the dragon

That would be bussin!

which could very well explain the extreme influx of SJW's in this current generation, children who were sheltered in a confined home with electronics, with all forms of media being censored by their parents, they grew up without dealing with bad things, therefore they had not developed any type of mental resilience to the outside world, now they are pushing "hate speech" laws, they want to bubble in the rest of the world just like they were bubbled in as children. this is what happens when you shelter your children too much.

@Christopher Gray I've been thinking the same thing all this time. They've grown up with electronics in the tech age with that LED screen burned into their conscience creating a sheltered happy place. Except I was thinking along the lines of not so much censored content, but the children of say around 12 yrs. The ones who have access to all content without supervision and are exposed to the negativity and bad things they find on line and can't logically decipher things and it leads to cognitive dissonance from sensory overload. Or we're both on to something. They grow up in the electronics age in a sheltered bubble, but once they're old enough to have unfettered access to the web, they find horrible things on line and that bubble now has a hole in it and it shatters their happy place.

+TheRantingCabby I disagree, i don't think technology is a cause of sheltering, but i do think it assists sheltering, i think overall censorship is a very bad thing, my point was that these people have grown up in thier own bubble where everything is happy go lucky, they were censored from all the bad things in life, so they never got used to dealing with negative things, to us a minor inconvience of something negative could mean a drastic overload of negativity to someone who was sheltered, it offends them alot more than it offends us, we are more adapt to it, thus the reason they try to make the rest of the world a censored bubble, because they don't want to adapt, they don't want to gain mental strength, they just want to cower and run from everything bad in the world and try to push it away instead of facing it head on and dealing with it.

Comfort is always going to be a condition that people prefer because it's obviously a favorable desire. It's a habit too, and people are creatures of habits. You could say that a Mongoloid living in the dry mountains of Karakorum would find more comfort in playing his Morin Khuur with a bunch of his friends around a circle of fire in the middle of the night, than he would be speaking with random people at the local food market. But you're right, the ease of accessibility to technology has partly made people lazy and it can, in a very paradoxical morbid sort of way, degenerate people.

I think for the most part unless you grow up in the ghetto or in a country in the time of war you are sheltered so that is a significant amount of people in the modern world. I removed my television from my home but then discovered i have this smartphone device that i take with me literally everywhere so i do think this has become a form of a bubble that shields us from everyday life or in essence becomes an idol for us that we worship because we give it all of our time.

He says this but doesn't do this himself. He is a cult leader.

@@nik8099 elaborate

@@nik8099 I see comments from people who say they are buddhists and love this lecture. For one, there was no mention of Nirvana (a state of perfect psychological maturity). It was just a story of the 3 signs. These tales do not represent the story Peterson told. They are a metaphor for how we are all raised in a perpetual cycle of unreality unless we choose to change that by doing contemplative practices, developing insight and being moral (respecting everyone and everything). Peterson's argument is that this is reality. He is not a deep thinker and does not understand buddhism. The 3 signs are what people like him think reality is. Peterson was owned by the Buddha here because he does not understand spirituality or spiritual practice. He thinks samsara is truth. He thinks he speaks truth. He is not a prophet and he is not a master of his own psychological makeup. He acts like an immature child who is trying to create his own "sensual palace" as a grown man because he does not understand that real wisdom comes from letting go, not proving... I also know that I am not enlightened and should not be as disrespectful of Peterson as I am ... He is pretty basic though

Search for Ajahn Brahm.

Read Buddha and his Dhamma by DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR.

What article did you get that idea from? It'd be a good satirical read.

Just google. Pretty easy. www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-jordan-peterson-charlatans.html www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html

thanks mboy

Yeah it seems to be written in a way where they just 1. Strawman and then 2. Don't even explain why his side is objectively bad and just expect you to hate him

Martin Rheaume leftards just being leftards kkkk

SWolven - Yeah, chasing only Light while seeking to eliminate all darkness is actually unbalanced. It always leaves us feeling like a failure since it can't be done. Who would want to live in a realm where the sun never set? Balance of Light & dark is perfect in the yin-yang. Balance could then be a/the major aspect of The Middle Way. ~♥~

The Middle Way is a wonderful place to strive to reach (should that be your road this time around), but we must be willing to travel in or even fully embrace the darkness or light from time to time for the knowledge and self-awareness it can bring. Not saying one should go out of their way to be baddy or goody as there are those for whom that is their journey in this life and they don't need some amateur trying to show them how it's done. The true path through each incarnation is the one we travel with open eyes and an honest heart that helps us and the Universe learn a little something more about ourselves. But don't worry. It will happen whether you want it to or not - often without you even realizing it's happening. That's part of the beauty of this whole mess. Ain't it cool?

Sounds like hogwash to me

@@TheCoffeeNut711 it would sound nutty to an untrained mind

The middle path is true. keeping it balanced but that ying yang stuff is not theravada buddhism. theravada buddhism has the original scripts and teachings from the Buddha and the rest is by monks who travelled to other countries and changed the teachings to their benefit.

No dude they aren't the same, budha left his newborn baby and wife's just so that he can sit on tree for years!?? WTF is that? Leaving your wife's like she is nothing

@Bernard de Fontaines well so do Christianity in that matters is anti natural humanism. Loving GOD is not natural, i guess the difference is Christian deal with the problems while the other detach from it

@@matthew6335 First of all, that story is probably not true. Even if it is, here's how people should look at it. When he left, he wasn't the Buddha. He was just an Ordinary Person. He was a Victim of Depression. That doesn't mean that what he did was Right. He should not have done that. But, can we change History ? Nope. We can't ... Also, I don't understand what you mean by 'Christian deals with the problem while the other detaches from it'. If that is a reference to Buddhist 'Non Attachment', you have no idea what you are talking about ...

@@matthew6335 lmao cope harder matthew

@@matthew6335 lol predatory converting guy

I found Zen Buddhism very appealing and freeing yet it seems to lack substance sometimes..

zen is good if done correctly but their teaching on being direct and beyond words obviously has a price, it creates many misunderstandings and could lead to degeneration (see how many 'masters' are involved in petty things, polemics, sexual scandals,alcoholism, etc) the chinese or other sects are better on this subject because they still keep the vinaya code unlike the japanese

Sikhism is very Revolutionary..Guru Nanak was the Prophet of the Future..many Buddhist sages see Him as a Buddha..look into His Shabads, He shows us the Keys to the Ultimate...🙏

Buddha said find your own path...dont follow me blindly

Isn't Nibbana akin to the Kingdom of Heaven though ?

"Different" would be a massive understatement of an answer to your question. But yes, they are different.. In the same way a blown out candle is different from a banquet party.

I guess it's more down to personal interpretation. Catholics for example believe that the original sin was a bad thing, but if we are born in sin is it really pure evil? Like pretty much everything else the answer is probably yes and no. The way I see the story of Adam and Eve the "Original Sin" was always meant to happen, otherwise man would have stayed an animal forever. Buddhism definitely does the job of portraying it in a positive light better, but I think that the Christian story at the core is the same. If man never attained knowledge of good and evil (therefore God as an extension of that), then humans would never have had the option to CHOOSE devotion to God instead of blindly following like a *sheep* Reference to the bible passage "The Blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" meaning that choices consciously made are more important and meaningful than those you are born into. I feel like that passage does well to support my quickly thought out argument

I guess this would be the case, if you believe there is no worth in the foundational beliefs of your own civilization. You may find a way to explain things that doesn't bring a significant amount of self reflection. But in the way of history, you are no better off understanding your ancestors unless they too were Buddhists. (educated opinion) The "original sin" was when the humans in the "garden" (nature). Ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (they ate some DMT containing substance that resulted in consciousness) And became aware and fearful. This fear is what guided their actions, not thought, fear. Many have been the sins of those consumed by fear of mortality and the future. So what Buddhist principle is so superior in teaching this? Is it the first lesson? That consciousness comes at a price?

It is the son's place to revivify his father, not abandon him.

I am afraid you have fallen for a false prophet. This guy hasn't even meditated.

@@nik8099 You are damn right bro, its a wonder many people trust this idiot

@@nik8099 who is the real prophet?

​@@nik8099ha?

​@@nik8099don't propagate your religious propaganda everywhere

I take it you were able to figure out how to meditate correctly since that time?

@thomas seven instinctively dislike him, the number of like and dislike doesn't show that.

He just rehashes what's in every book on buddhism. In order to be contentious he would have to say something that is actually original: he just repeats what he read and uses it to go completely off-topic and ride his christian obsession to death. His analogies are superficial at best but then again he has no real interest in buddhism given he's found his favourite mythology already. In truth there are way more glaring differences between christianity and buddhism than there are similarities. E.g. theism vs atheism and the soul vs non-ego.

@thomas seven youtube is leftist turf!! Sensoring everything they dont want, so whats your point?

@@linusverclyte4988 Other than his fixation on the "Order out of chaos" I don't follow how he repeats himself over and over. What do you mean by "His analogies are superficial at best"? Also, repeating the same dull points everyone has already made like "Buddism is an Atheist religion" would have not been original either, so how is that an alternative? I do know Peterson has his faults, like how he falls so often into his complaints about the modern school system (which he has made decent points about, but not why I would be interested in watching his videos). However, I don't understand why you believe that he repeats the same ideas to such a significant degree.

xtop23 creates understanding, maybe the most important.

Beautifully stated....just one . minute correction, buddha wld push for "mindfulness" rather than concentration....as the concentration dat z mentioned by Buddha z more of a natural outcome of a fully mindful undistracted mind,not a forced one....which z very much analogous to what Seneca or Marcus Aurelius wld say about work ethics,to attend to whatever one has to in a optimally undistracted way .... Stoicism z a great wisdom tradition,however it has very little to contribute to the knowledge of higher states of consciousness . !!..

Yes yours one is right. It was not a angel

@@spider-maninside5401 💫

I’ve read many accounts of the Buddha story and never ran across one with an ‘angel’ or messenger of god… must be a Christian version.

Hope your doing good bro.

@@DailycabooseFilms getting better slowly. I forgot I made this comment. I've been seeing a therapist.

You are already taking the first step bro, which is to be aware of it. Most people go through life without being aware and wanting to change. Just that will guarantee that eventually you will get better, not being fatalistic makes sure that there is always space for actions. Otherwise we just don't even try, which perpetuates it.

Nope your current state is not permanant . You can always change

@@dilipaweeratunga I'm much better now. But I'll give you some advice. Escape jordan peterson, he is not helping you. Look up critiques on him please. I had to clean a lot of junk from my head to get here and some of it was from him.

It's quite possible that he's Just trying to understand it by relating it to what he and likely his audience(especially a western audience) knows. I'm also Buddhist, and so far jordon Pederson doesn't strike me as someone who performs mental gymnastics to form a conclusion. He seems quite open minded.

Devil's Advocate with Al Pacino? That one?

@@themacocko6311 Yep.. both had Keanu Reeves dealing with the devil/mara, both had to battle their own ego. Both devils used the same ultimate tactic of appealing to the ego. It's wild how similar they are.

Little Buddha is underrated. It's a gem.

Intriguing! What order would you suggest watching them?

@@gregzen7896 Little Buddha then DA.

no no no the answer is 47

Just a shame the question and the answer don't match. How like life.

it's true nobody's going to find what they're looking for when they ask what's the meaning of life like it doesn't mean anything and the purpose is to have offspring

@@taliakellegg5978 'and the purpose is to have offspring.' Some people, especially homosexuals don't want offspring.

Hi Sagacious Being. Did Peterson actually say compassion should be exclusively reserved for children, the sick & elderly? People often miss quote him. I'm not suggesting he hasn't said this but you have a source at all? Thanks.

@@rolandguilford8301 just Google Jordan Peterson on compassion. He seems to conflate compassion and enabling. Empathy and compassion are about understanding others and truly helping them. Enabling is a selfish act that may make you feel better but actual hurts others. Eg. Giving addicts money. Its an important distinction.

@@metokyo4960 Unfortunately, I believe he knows exactly what he's doing. The confusing language is used to obscure hate filled ideology.

Hi Sagacious Being. Thanks for getting back to me. Will do. I'll google what you suggested. All the best!

@@metokyo4960 he said he thinks in words ;)

Beauty is ever in the eye of the beholder, yes. Each one is shown what is perfect & appropriate for them to see. We can come back to the same book later & get something quite different from our earlier understanding. Life is a good bit more awesome than we've been taught to believe. ~♥~

Well, aboctok, The Buddha himself rejected Hinduism and said why. I'm sure there are Buddhists who 'don't get out much', and don't have opinions on other religions, but since Buddhism is a rejection of ordinary ways of thinking about things, I'm inclined to think almost all Buddhists know the more common ways of thinking about reality ... that there's a heaven where you go when you die (Muslims & Christians), or that there's nothing after you die (atheists, Jews, the non-religious), etc.). I've only personally known 2 Buddhists, but they both were originally Christians.

As everything you said here makes sense, I guess I think we were just talking past each other. lol! ... (I'm an academic, so when I speak of Buddhists or Christians, I have in mind people who are serious about their faith as a matter of truth ... my bad, no doubt.) The great bulk of Christians probably have no idea what they believe, and the Fundamentalist types who pride themselves on doctrine are in a grand minority. If you say so, I'm happy to accept that the great bulk of Buddhists simply practice rituals, and know little of the deep reasoning behind it all. Isn't there any Buddhist Sunday School where you live? ;)

he didn't mention any of the teachings, he's distracting from buddha's teachings by referring to stories that have absolutely nothing to do with buddha himself or his teachings anybody who talks about buddha and gods at the same time is by definition a corrupt piece of shit

Pretty sure that's not a universally accepted definition of "corrupt piece of shit".

I'm confused (at Michiel Van Kets). How doe a piece of shit become corrupt by talking about buddha?

Brilliant? Lol, this guy hasn't even meditated or got his sources right and you think he is brilliant? He is blind leading blind.

@@nik8099 are you buddhist ? If not , then your opinion is invalid

@@ravjayakodi2746 so you have to be a Buddhist to question somebodies ideas ? The Buddha said to always inquire and find your own answers not follow blindly.

@@Viralclipmedia he said quote "got his sources right" suggesting that he believs that JP is wrong. I am buddhist and what JP said was right. I only mentioned that bc he implied that he knows more about buddhism when he is wrong.

Darrell Ng It is with great respect and irony that I respond, Amen brother. This is not religious instruction, this is a psychologist analyzing a Cliff Notes version myth that many people still believe. And it's worse than religion. It's zealotry. Fanaticism at its most insidious. Plenty of fanatics in every religion, philosophy and political Theory.

+Tony Banana I think we are discovering more and more that religions primary purpose was the ordering of society. The stuff that comes with it is usually just baggage that helped at one point because people didn't have intellectual systems for establishing legitimate authority, and therefore hierarchy could easily be undermined. I think one core note of Jordan Peterson's grander message is that we need to take into account all of religions functions, and we can't forget the important things that they did accomplish and that we still want to be able to accomplish today. It's no surprise that democracy emerged in a land where the people's holy book said 'render onto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto god what is gods'. It managed to give legitimacy to the 'no harm' and 'respect' principle without needing a human authority to enforce the works.

Mad Hatter I agree with you, it was definitely a way to control the masses.

No, laws and punishment was the way to control the masses.

@@Xpertman213 "That helped at one point" Do you know how many people are getting free of addiction till this day because they became christian? Teen Challenge has a 77% success rate for addicts who complete the program and it is a Christian program. Most people go in none christian and come out christian free of addiction for life thanks to their new found religion. Now i won't go on now to say that maybe people have found the same freedom in another relgion and got their lives together as i don't know but it goes to show religion will always be needed no matter how intellectual we are.

There's a joke in England that the Queen must think the world smells of fresh paint

^^^^^^^this one has something important to tell you all

Kiliya 108 thank you

If I have helped in any way you are more than welcome Yvios!

Killya 108 Sometimes sucking our fingers is fun, though. ;)

Point taken Mad Hatter!

Tashi delek

Ngoney rey

you say you studied Buddhism and philosophy for 13 years and are now a professor but your comment seems pretentious and almost elitist in a way that reads exactly what something written by someone whose knowledge of Buddhism comes from reading a westernized bestseller. i would assume you would be more enlightened than to tell others who take issue with petersons interpretation of the story of the Buddha to "grow up". mind you this is all coming from a westerner who got all his buddhist books on amazon. not all are bestsellers though. peace be with you.

J Colon maybe I am wrong, maybe I sound elite, maybe I am best seller reader for pleasure instead of reading to enlighten myself. I never claimed I am right but grow up is a shout I shout for those who criticises out of jealousy. They say there is no such thing as celestial bodies which guides Buddha at that particular instances in story. Is there not ? Different Buddhist school have different outlook on Buddha's life. Such as Mahayana Budhism says all of Buddha's life is a premeditated show for sentient beings to tell them that there is way and hope for us to liberate oneself from the circus of life or world as we see it. And then there's Theravada budhsim, who says it's not premeditated, Buddha was born normal, he was normal until he attained Buddha-hood. In both cases, there's a talk of celestial bodies involvement in the story. So the least reasonable criticism they throw at is a baseless as the Budhas life story unfolds in according to any sect of Buddhism. And some of critics don't even reasons why Mr. peterson's story is at fault. They just seem like criticising him; one because they think they know Buddhism and are qualified to comment because they read best seller. And some of them they just criticises him because they are simply jealous as I see it. Mr. Peterson might be telling this story after reading a best seller but the bestseller he read sounds more accordingly with mainstream Budhism. By the way, my friend, what is the fault in the way he tells the Buddha's story ? Or is it just that you didn't like the way I commented using such as "grow up" "western Buddhist" ? What I liked best about his story telling is how he somehow make noticeable why Buddha was in search of Buddhism since there was already Sankhya and his ancestor's traditional religion. Try to listen him once more and then tell me what's wrong with the way he tells this story. Don't tell me you didn't like his smile or the way he presents Buddha as a ordinary people. Because Mr. Peterson is supposed to be smart and not cute, and also Buddha's life story is supposed to look ordinary human being's pursue of Enlightenment. My name is Gyatso, by the way and I am definitely not elite, my professor job doesn't pay, there's nothing glamorous or pretentious abt my life. Not smiling now, see I am serious guy LOL

i respect and agree with your comment. thank you for replying to me.

Wasn't Jesus supposed to be of the line of Adam? It's the same thing, although a bit more Star Wars in execution :)

Vijay, well spoken. The Yin-Yang's perfect balance illustrates that. A simple example is how hunger is the best spice, making whatever we eat taste better. ~♥~

Fact. the English language is way too cynical for its own good. Stems from an over the top, underlying fear of all the undesirable outcomes that reality can manifest into

@@tejassinha62 well put

Western religion is the ultimate coping mechanism, Cope with reality itself.

lol oooh what a nice safe way for you to get likes

@@tuanjim799 to be fair that only got like 9 likes lol

@Amey Tiwari yes you are right :)) that’s what I’ve been taught too

That makes zero sense because if you read the bible at all you would have to live out your life with love for God and your neighbor aka compassion for the rest of your life and do good deeds as proof that you believe in God. Matter of fact the new testament says work out your salvation daily.

There actually is meaning in what JP says you know haha.

Voicelet what are you getting at? You assume that a western psychologist would be on par in religious lore, with any fundamentalist? Deconstructing a story is difficult within itself, but you wish him to bare the knowledge of hundreds of Buddhists that is passed down from teacher to student? Would you say, Buddhism is the same as when it was "constructed? " How many of your countries religious instructors are fluent in analytical psychology, and evolutionary psychology? Do they seek to explain how their story can relate to western ideals? Or is it not worth the time? Are they secular?

So what do you want? A cookie? Jeesh!

Haters? Hmmm...why are you so upset @voicelet? He is just interpreting from his own experience. All ppl do that. We all have mental filters. I think you are hearing him through yours.

Buddha fought the Gods with the intention of asserting an enlightened atheism. He defeated them, but came back a monotheist.

@@tr00logic4 And where the fudge did you heard that?

would you care to enlighten us as to what it is?

Oh wow Javier you're so cool and awesome

Javier trying to sound wise while not even correcting anything Jordan Peterson said with a coherent counter argument.

lol uh-oh, watch out Javier, you got some JP fanboys foaming at the mouth to defend their daddy :D

@Sir Reginald Meowington Im a bit drunk right now and will reread your comment when I'm sober. But I'd like to thank you for taking the time to try to help a fellow human being. One ill thought out question occurs to me tho in my present state. "Enlightenment" seems like such an impossible goal. I would settle for peace of mind and a modicum of happiness in this life time. And then see what comes next. With all its sham, broken dream and drudgery it's still a beautiful life. We need to experience the lows to appreciate the highs. In short, is Nirvana really such an ideal goal. Is not going from one life to the next, from one adventure to the next, something that can be... enough. Feeling alive and excited. With the risk of death or suffering. Is that no what 'life' is all about. Nirvana sounds a bit like game over. And sometimes I really enjoy playing this game.

Buddhism can be a religion or a philosophy, Buddhism has no God.The Great Buddha was sceptical of Gods including himself and would be of someone like Mr Peterson who purports to know the truth. The Buddha encouraged people to find the truth for themselves

Perfect. Spot on.

Johan Music Wrong. The Buddha knows God is real, but it is silly to discuss it.

aboctok ...Wow. Missing the point, much?

aboctok Hey, what can I say? They say to get from point A to point B is a straight line, after all.

its the ultimate story of growing up and "maning up".

Eric - great comment, good observations. The "terrible" factor of death is absent when we don't identify exclusively with the body, the body-mind. It dies, but we are eternal, living in an environment of eternity/infinity. Here in 3D relativity, yes, death can be far more appealing than some alternatives. A lifetime is but a chapter in the book, not the whole thing. It's more like a dream than anything real, at least from the perspective of the other side such as NDE or an awakening experience. You just KNOW, from there, that's so much more real than our trek in relativity. Bottom line, tho - it's all good. :) ~♥~

This whole thing about death being more appealing i would agree if you are 103 years old with no living friends or family stuck in a nursing home lonely but even people that are terminally ill rather live than die and pray for a miracle etc. This whole death for some is better than life is for people not thinking clearly so it is a bad example. You have people who break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend and prefer death to dealing with their feelings but they are not in a right state of mind. A person with a mental illness might prefer to die but they are unable to think rightly so if they could for at least a day i am sure they would prefer to choose hope and live.

There are no gods in buddhist philosophy. But story of siddhartha is not buddhist philosophy it's buddhist theology.

No, the practice is.

The story does give context to his teachings. But you're right, teachings and ideas should stand on their own merits regardless of context.

Miles Mathis: "Concerning the birth of Buddha, one of the first things we are told is this: 'Whilst she [his mother] thus religiously observed the rules of a pure discipline, Bodhisattva was born from her right side, come to deliver the world, constrained by great pity, without causing his mother pain or anguish.' As you can see, this religion is all too familiar. It is in denial against life and against the real world from the first word. It implies that a woman who observes a pure discipline in child-birth will be blessed with a painless birth. Not so. It implies that there is something holy about the right side of the body. Not so. It implies that a holy being could or would want to avoid causing pain or anguish, and that he or she would do this because of pity. Not so. We all feel pain and anguish, and no amount of pity will remove it. A far wiser man from the East, Lao-tze, taught that acceptance of pain and anguish and death was the real transcendence. 'All things in Nature bloom and then return from whence they came. This is the fulfillment of their destiny. This reversion is an eternal law. To know it is wisdom.' By that he didn't mean we should have a disregard for those in pain or anguish, or that we shouldn't avoid causing pain when it was unnecessary. He meant we should recognize pain and anguish and even death as gifts from the gods, whoever they are, equal to the gifts of pleasure and contentment. If it were not necessary for the body and mind to feel pain and anguish, Nature would not have included them in our bodies and minds. It seems to me this is the wisdom the Buddha was utterly without his entire life (as we will see below). Soon after, we find this: [Says the Buddha, as a child:] 'This birth is in the condition of a Buddha; after this I have done with renewed birth; now only am I born this once, for the purpose of saving all the world.' Again, very familiar, and very unnatural. Imagine a leaf saying this, or a flower. “I am done with the cycle of Nature! I am done with being composted and reborn into another day under the Sun! I demand to be a leaf forever, undying, and as an eternal leaf, I will save all the world!” We would find our little leaf more than a bit ridiculous. Who is a leaf to tell Nature what he will and will not do? And how can a leaf save all the world? What is more, why does this leaf imagine the world needs saving? No, the Buddha is an awful little brat from his swaddling clothes, and no wise person could listen to his chirping without pain. The author now tells us: 'When Bodhisattva was born, he came to remove the sorrows of all living things.' Thanks, but I am attached to my sorrows and have no desire to give them up. They are the deepest arrows I have in my quiver, and my art would would become impossible without my sorrows. I would sooner be relieved of my joys." Miles Mathis: "In fact, the reaction to the Buddha's teachings in India in the 4th century BC was very like my reaction in this paper. In the Bhagavadgita, probably written soon after the Buddha's death, we find Krishna telling the young coward Arjuna not to be so concerned with death: 'Mourn not for those that live, nor those that die! Neither I, nor you, nor anyone here ever was not or ever will not be. All that lives, lives always.' That may be true, or not, but at least it doesn't stink of poison. It is a breath of fresh air after all the maunderings of the Buddha. We could understand a young soldier being traumatized by the brutalities of war. We understand soldiers returning from battle who question life and the gods, who must work through a depression or undergo a life change. But it is difficult to feel much sympathy for the young Buddha, so traumatized at age 29 by seeing an old man, a sick man, a coffin, and a ploughman, that he must ride his royal stallion into the woods, accompanied by his butler, and seek the company of a bunch of other rich Brahmin too holy and effete to face the real world. There he says his first true words to these Brahmakarins, though he seems to know it not: 'Pitiful indeed are such sufferings! and merely in quest of a human or heavenly reward, ever revolving in the cycle of birth or death, how great your sufferings, how small the recompense! Leaving your friends, giving up honorable position; with a firm purpose to obtain the joys of heaven, although you may escape little sorrows, yet in the end involved in great sorrow; promoting the destruction of your outward form, and undergoing every kind of painful penance, and yet seeking to obtain another birth.' And how does the manchild think to better this pitiful plan? He plans to suffer these austerities in order to avoid another birth! Ah, brilliant plan, young Siddhartha. Because you fear death, and find the very idea of it ruins your joy, you seek to have death (or its existential equivalent) now instead. Yes, you seek Nirvana, a thing never before sought by any wise man of India before you. But what is Nirvana? Nirvana is “the perfect peace of the state of mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflictive states.” This is achieved when all desire is rooted out. Nirvana is “the unconditioned (asankhata) mind, a mind that has come to a point of perfect lucidity and clarity due to the cessation of the production of volitional formations. Nirvana is deathlessness.” To my eye, Nirvana appears to be a death wish, suicide without the knife. Notice that the Buddha has defined craving and desire as afflictions. Not just negative cravings or desires, or destructive cravings or desires, but all cravings and desires. A man desiring to kiss his wife: an affliction. A woman desiring to have a child, and to caress that child, and to feed that child: an affliction. A bird enjoying flight: afflicted. A fish craving to eat a fly: afflicted. A dog enjoying a bone: afflicted. A thirsty man drinking from a clear stream: afflicted. Nirvana is not deathlessness, it is lifelessness. Nirvana is not the opposite of death, life is the opposite of death. Life is deathlessness. But the Buddha has fled from life. He cannot abide it. Beyond that, I have no desire for an “unconditioned mind.” What is wisdom but the conditioning of the mind? A moron has an unconditioned mind: may be quite adept at avoiding most thoughts, may even have reduced cravings or desires. Do I long for the moronic state? No. Are you quite sure that religion is not a form of induced imbecility? Are you quite that bodhi or amata is not the most successful form of induced imbecility ever known? Christ advised us to be like children or like the birds of the air, but even the birds and the children are not morons. Nor are they yogis. Children would never think to avoid experiences or desires. Birds would never think to avoid cravings. The whole point of living like birds or babes is to experience the rawness of life, with trust and acceptance, to take Nature as she is, to have no thought of saving the world. . . because you have no thought of “the world.” Could a beast of the field avoid desires? Can we imagine a beast of the field having a negative desire? The beast of the field, like the child, is its desires, and no harm done. Jesus must have meant something like this."

You are another person who knows nothing about what Buddha taught. And by the way, Jesus, if he existed, was a prick who adhered to Filicide, slavery, hypocrisy and family abandonment.

I know a Buddhist did not just berate a different profit just because someone was a jerk online.

No, he is talking from his own perspective and isn't attempting to be 'factually correct'. It is wrong for you, but right for him. You proclaim it as absolutely wrong, sorry, that isn't the case. This video was helpful to myself and most likely to others.

Yes, and Buddhism is a much deeper story than Genesis. I found the comparison quite stupid.

saikat93ify That's literally your opinion. Also, invoking general semantics, "buddhism" isn't a story, it's a practice that an individual adopts.

saikat93ify Do you know about Cabala?

I'm not a buddhist priest but I play one on TV - for the point he's trying to make he's close enough for rock and roll. Go meditate on that, buddhy!

is this just not one part of a whole lecture, no?

nice one...sounds very likely

@Vasu Srivastava Osho is a failed Vadzrayna student whom then proceeded to mix what he learned with Hinduism. A smart man, no doubt, but take his teachings with grain of salt.

@Vasu Srivastava The difference is that Buddha had to invent new way because there wasnt any that would lead to enlightment. While Vajrayana, more precisely school Karma Kagyu has very effective teachings.

@@Mizukageize Osho was a fraud who started a cult and there is more then enough proof about that in the new netflux documentary about him and his movement.

people look at me like I'm crazy every time I verbally refer to Human beings as a species.

Strawman.

I wasn't trying to create a strawman, I was simply trying to articulate what JP made me think about watching this video. And I also think that what I wrote is pretty relevant because it's a call to awake from the dullness we have in front of our eyes everyday and that it seems that that is the cause of a lot of the problems of everyday life inside society. So, yeah maybe the last part was a little bit bitter and 'clickbait' but I believe in the concept behind it