No hate on Buddhism, but this is my honest critique and appraisal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This is the interesting thing \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I see a lot of business folks or successful folks or ex-Christians turn to Buddhism. Why? They are insanely stressed and no longer want to feel stress. But the bad thing about Buddhism \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the ultimate end is self-negation, self-annihilation, and the killing of one’s own ego. Towards what end? People desire perpetual bliss; hedonic anti-pain, and they want to live in perfect ‘happiness’ (very much like a cow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Technically Buddhism isn’t a religion, it is a mode of living. There is no ‘heaven’ or ‘hell’, and there is no literal ‘life after death’. Even the notion of reincarnation is more metaphorical than anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The good thing about Buddhism is if you do follow the Buddhistic precepts, you will<\/em> achieve your end. You can end up living in perfect bliss, disconnected from society or whatever. But the harder question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this actually desirable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I say no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ain’t nobody putting a gun to your head and telling you how to live your life. But this is just my simple thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buddhism is mostly good (if you just pick and choose the parts you like, kind of like a buffet), but do not follow it to the extreme logical end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No hate on Buddhism, but this is my honest critique and appraisal:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276329,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276328\/revisions\/276329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Certainly you can do anything in your life which you desire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n