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Buddhists: How has Buddhism changed you for the better?

yrreg

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Addressing Buddhists here and anywhere else: as I said in an earlier post in this Community board:
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It is very hard to do critique of Buddhism here and also in other forums where free thinking people, lovers of free thought, free inquiry, and free speech, and cultivators of civil behavior congregate; because of hecklers who on the one hand openly say that they don't want to discuss ideas with me, but on the other engage in heckling -- that's the irony -- in order to silence me, or chase me away, or prevent people by the obstruction of their heckling from access to my critique of Buddhism, again on critical thinking and the search for empirical evidence. [ This is my mantra of a sort. ]

So I am now going to concentrate on asking the Buddhists here and also non-Buddhists, how Buddhism has changed them, meaning for the better? like for example, to control their heckling in compensation for their sense of inadequacy, deficiency, and insecurity in the face of people who do critique of Buddhism on critical thinking and the search for empirical evidence.


The real study of man is the behavior of man, says the no-self or not-self (in Buddhist parlance) who looks back at me as I look in the mirror.

You study ideas and you will pin down almost nothing that you want to pin down; but when you examine human behavior, ah, that is first of all what you can pin down, and then you can draw conclusions on what people are doing, how they do what, and how long, and where, and when, et cetera, as regards the why's they behave the way they do.

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[ Attention, hecklers:* please deal with your inadequacy, deficiency, and insecurity by doing Vipassana meditation, instead of heckling people who just want to analyze Buddhism on critical thinking and the search for empirical evidence, that will be to the best of everyone, starting with yourselves, namely, by taking up Vipassana meditation instead of heckling, you will do yourself better. But if you already do Vipassana meditation, then stop heckling people otherwise you are wasting time and labor and money with Vipassana meditation. ]
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Please come forward and tell me how Buddhism has changed you for the better in any way you want to understand better.

I remember a Buddhist here who said in a thread of mine on Buddhism and health, that he has changed owing to Buddhism, specifically Buddhist meditation: before he would be annoyed in the street traffic with motorists, but with having taken up Buddhist meditation he no longer experiences any more annoyances.

That is an example of changing for the better.


So, come forward and tell me about any and all and every changes for the better from your taking up with Buddhism.



Yrreg

PS But if any people want to tell me that they or they know of Buddhist who have changed for the worse, or the worse in some areas of life, please also give me your information here in this thread.
 
yrreg said:
Addressing Buddhists here and anywhere else: as I said in an earlier post in this Community board:
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Please come forward and tell me how Buddhism has changed you for the better in any way you want to understand better.

I remember a Buddhist here who said in a thread of mine on Buddhism and health, that he has changed owing to Buddhism, specifically Buddhist meditation: before he would be annoyed in the street traffic with motorists, but with having taken up Buddhist meditation he no longer experiences any more annoyances.

That is an example of changing for the better.


So, come forward and tell me about any and all and every changes for the better from your taking up with Buddhism.



Yrreg

PS But if any people want to tell me that they or they know of Buddhist who have changed for the worse, or the worse in some areas of life, please also give me your information here in this thread.
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Give it a rest, eh?
 
I guess I qualify as a heckler. Gerry, I'm an atheist. I don't meditate. I have giant, natural boobs, no penis envy and a substantial IQ. There is no inadequacy here.

I think the members of this board are more than up to the task of a skeptical inquiry of Buddhist beliefs. I know what was wrong with Tibet, and I'm skeptical of Buddhism in general.

The problem on this board comes down to YOU. Your style, your comments, your approach. Every thread you argue about Buddhism on turns into a pettiness-fest. And of course the requisite moaning that anyone who dare call you on this is a heckler.

I know I'm supposed to attack the argument, not the poster, and mods, if you want to yellow card me, then I will take my lumps without starting a thread whining about it, promise. It's just that I can't just post snarky one liners and cat pictures any more, I had to lay it out. These threads are a serious downer, and this one in particular is just baiting.
 
How has it made me better?

I used to be a flea in my last existence. Now that I'm a leech, my life is so much better.

Athon
 
Yrreg - If Buddhism did not exist, I probably would have not encountered you.

Has interacting with you improved my life?

You are such a weasel.

Solus made you your own sandbox. You can now play god.
 
Buddhism made me the man I am today!

ugly%20man.bmp
 
I am neither a Buddhist nor a heckler. I am but a noob who knows nothing about anything that has occurred on this forum between Yrreg and the rest. But I do have something to say about Buddhism, because I have taken some religion classes out of curiosity and found Buddhism quite interesting.

I was impressed that Buddhists seem to have developed a fairly deep understanding of psychology long before any other religion or culture I have studied. They were interested in developing exercises and techniques to make people feel happier and more relaxed. As opposed to the Christians, the Buddhists at least appeared to have some concern for the mental well-being of their followers. The Christians just seemed to want obedience, regardless of how miserable it made people.

I would even go so far as to say that if a heavy object were to fall on my head and gouge out the part of my brain that enables me to distinguish reality from fantasy, I'd probably become a Buddhist before joining any other religion. But my first priority would be getting someone to sew up the gaping wound in my head.
 
VanillaCone said:
I was impressed that Buddhists seem to have developed a fairly deep understanding of psychology long before any other religion or culture I have studied.
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Ah, c'mon VC, you just like it for the "koans"! :crc:
 
VanillaCone said:
Maybe you're right, but what are you skandha do about it?
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Ay, you Gautama problem, Buddha??? (<sigh>, as if we weren't going to hell already, I think this thread's cinched it!) :scared:
 
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blobru said:
Ay, you Gautama problem, Buddha??? (<sigh>, as if we weren't going to hell already, I think this thread's cinched it!) :scared:
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I'm not totally convinced that these awful Buddhism puns will land us in Hell. Isn't Theraveda find out for sure?
 
Yrreg,

Hello again.

Buddhism has added new tools to my mental tool box. It gave me a perspective to help compliment the tools I has already acquired in group and individual therapy.

When we will we get you sceptical and scientific critique of the eightfold path?


BTW, those are some greata puns.

I would hate to add anatta to the list ......
 
Dancing David said:
BTW, those are some greata puns.

I would hate to add anatta to the list ......
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Well, don't feel too bad. It's one of those cases where you're dharma if you do, and dharma if you don't.

Blobru thinks we're going to Hell, but I wouldn't Tibetan it.

OK -- I am really going to stop now. No more Buddhism puns.

Unless samadhi else wants to give it a try.
 
blobru said:
Well, maybe not hell. But we might end up spending a few lifetimes as these: VC & bb reincarnated!? :faint:
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Yummy! Boy am I glad I didn't click on that lovely link at work!

It's not that I'm offended -- it was just a bit of a chakra.

But it does raise an interesting question: Hell? Or life as a chancre?

Interesting, though, the similarity: Chakra. Chancre. Not sure what to make of that.
 
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