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Hello,
I wish to understand something about Buddhism. We know that Buddhism is not willing to cater to the 'hard questions' because it considers them to fuel the chain of nibbana.
Throughout buddhist concepts, we find that Buddhahood is above Brahmahood, and that gods are trapped in "Being" as well as us, but on a different level.
Nirvana - or the True Enlightenment is actually the point of achieving "nothing".
Can Buddhism be considered as negating consciousness?
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>>2201665
/b/ walks the path.
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Define consciousness.
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>>2201665
>>Can Buddhism be considered as negating consciousness?
it negates your fantasy that consciousness can be relied on to be happy, that it is personal.
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>>2201665
It asks you to consider what is conciousness.
Buddhism often bemoans the fact that we are singular beings so we are limited to our understand of the world to a single mind. It borrows a bit from the ideas of Jain philosophy in how we are all convinced that our perspective is a defining perspective. This is where our emotions and feelings start to cloud real logic and the reality of nature.
So conciousness is very much an active part of Buddhism, the cynicism towards it emerges from the realization that we are the worst liars in the world to ourselves. Confirmation bias will make you believe what you want to believe, not what is "fact" and "truth".
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>>2201665
It exposes consciousness as the somewhat illusory thing it is. It's extremely easy to think of our consciousness as being our "us-ness", and as being something if not solid then at least enduring. Buddhism (or, more accurately, meditation) reveals this not to be the case, that your "you-ness" is not tied up in something as trivial as consciousness, and that making the mistake that it is will lead you to all manner of unnecessary suffering.
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