Re:Young people are flocking to astrology
by bowsamic on Monday July 24, 2023 @06:35AM
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Because the book literally says that you don’t have the training or insight to decide what is true or false in it. An explicitly laid out aspect of Buddhism is that you can’t tell yet. Sure you can ignore that part if you want to feel like you know what’s right, but the Buddha already saw people do this to much failure and gave teachings to try and prevent it
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Re:Young people are flocking to astrology
by ChainOfFools on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:11PM
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this makes buddhism sound like the mod of an edgy IRC channel: "lurk moar"
Re:Young people are flocking to astrology
by bowsamic on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @03:50AM
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Well, it is! It’s a training. It’s like someone coming in to lifting weights and saying “squats are useless and no one should do them”. Without training you might not know that’s wrong. Buddhism is just like this