Desire is the cause of suffering. Let's try and devote

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You're already doing it wrong, if you're actively craving to reach Nirvana.

nirvana isn't something you attain through normal means, it is a consequence of your changed mentality

>>2209751

aye, schizophrenia

>>2209738

Any navel gazers know why the Dalai Lama desires a free Tibet so much? Devotes his entire life to this desire? Desires it above all other things?

No?

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>>2209770
>Vajrayana
>Buddhism

Pick one, and only one

>>2209765
the real point of any religion is to take what lessons you can from its morality to live a better life, the mythology and stories about the afterlife are just that

Shouldn't Buddhists be ascetics?

My impression of Western Buddhists is that plenty of them are promiscuous WEEDLMAO.

>>2209795
>Shouldn't Buddhists be ascetics?
yes, many are

>>2209742
what is this furry bara shit

>>2209795

Nope, Buddhists try to stay in the Middle Way, out of extremism.

>>2209816
What's in the middle of the middle, and then what's in the middle of that.

>>2209832

Anna Kendrick's pussy

>>2209795
Western Buddhists are just repackaged liberal protestants. Aesceticism is the core for almost every buddhist practice, except Tantra.

>>2209837
'A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.'

>>2209738
>Betafags' desire for coitus is what's tormenting them
>castrating themselves is the path to salvation

Was the Buddha retarded?

>>2209812
Bara uber alles