BUDDHISM GONE BANKRUPT

Institutionalized religions have all gone astray. Their biggest mistake is in mis-understanding the true teachings they received. In their misunderstanding, they each developed a belief that their own religion is different and better than others. Buddhism is not different to any other of these religions in that in time it strayed from the truth and succumbed to ignorance. The story of Buddhism has an interesting theme; a theme of alleged wisdom. With all their ignorance and darkness, monotheist religions need to be given the credit of not claming wisdom.

A Christian, traditional, new-born or in any whichever flavour he/she comes, invariably talks of “faith” or belief, or similar states of mind that make him/her (ie the follower) happy and satisfied. Moslems follow an alleged God-given doctrine (ie Sharia). Jews believe themselves to be the chosen ones, the descendents of Abraham. There is nothing philosophical or lofty about their self-professed status. None of them claim wisdom and in fact, little do they even openly say that they seek it.

Buddhists on the other hand, especially neo-Buddhist of the West perceive themselves as open-minded, rational people who are seeking wisdom by taking the individual course of discovery each on his/her own. In believing so, they feel superior to others who follow beliefs without putting them under the microscope. They regard monotheist religions as being dogmatic, narrow-minded, cult-based, irrational, stifling, and as schools of thought that would never lead their followers to the ultimate liberation of the mind and body (Nirvana).

Whilst the journey of self-discovery is an image that reflects what the glorious Buddha has taught, what Buddhists practice today is diametrically opposite from this lingering self-perceived status of the bygone days of honourable Buddha.

In comparing Buddhism to monotheist religions credit must be again given to the latter on the answer to the question of the purpose of the path. Ask ten Buddhists (especially Western Buddhists) about the purpose of being a Buddhist, and you will get ten different answers. Ask twenty, and you will get twenty answers. Ask the same Buddhist this question at different intervals and you will likely also receive different answers. Followers of monotheist religions have different delusions perhaps, but at least they think they know what they want.

Buddhists think that they are loftier than others, loftier by their own effort and not by virtue of belief and/or birthright. In reality, they are as basal as basal can get. They lurk in the dungeons of the soul-less pit of hell. There, they will rest forever until they regress to lower forms of life. They refute being human, do not understand what it means to be human (unlike what they claim), and animals and beast they will turn to be. It is not by accident that their alleged belief in reincarnation is truly a belief in transgression. In their deep memory, they know that they will be cast as beasts.

Shame shame shame on Buddhism. Alas to the teachings of the great luminous Buddha. What have they turned them into?!

Even the most simple of His Teachings they are unable to comprehend. When the Buddha spoke of the conditions of the world of Samsara (world of Prakriti, Dunia in Arabic, lower life, material existence) and elaborated its vanity by emphasizing its un-divine attributes, they took those attributes as defining points for the whole of existence.

The Buddha clearly said that this world, this material physical like we live in is one that has no virtues to pursue and no substance. He urged His followers to see the stark difference between being bound to the flesh (Samsara) and total liberation (Nirvana). In his tradition of being most analytical in expressing His Teachings, He taught that the world in which we dwell as physical beings has three main characteristics; pain (Dukkha), impermanence (Anicca), and soul-less-ness (Anatta). In His Teachings, He was elaborating that there is nothing in those attributes that is worthy of clinging to and chasing.

The troglodytes of Buddhism cannot see this message and understand in its most simple of simplicity. Whilst they debate whether or not pain may or may not vanish after reaching Enlightenment, they believe that impermanence is a universal law.

Those short-sighted dark souls cannot see that the only reason the Buddha mentioned impermanence was to elaborate a current status quo and to point the finger towards a Divine; one that is unchangeable; one that already has within His Holy Existence all that can exist.

They do not understand and will never understand what existence means and how conditions for existence pre-empt existence. If they did, they would understand that existence includes all pre-emptive conditions that can lead to existence whether they have yet been manifested or otherwise. Any change that has happened, will happen, or can happen, has to be first of all conceivable by The Law. It has to be within The Law otherwise it cannot happen.

One cannot write a word the phonetics of which do not exist in any given language. One cannot play a tune on an instrument the pitch of which is outside the range of this instrument. This same law applies to any thing that can ever exist.

This very simple logic dictates that existence, a manifestation of The Law, cannot change unless The Law changes. But this is not the universal impermanence Buddhists believe in. They do not cognize The Law to begin with. The do not and will not aspire to see the difference between a condition of The Law and The Law itself.

Deaf, dumb and blind they are. Deaf to hear the sweet sounds of Wisdom and the tunes of the flute, dumb and not able to express any, and blind to any insight leading to it. They will never reach Nirvana. None of them will.

This leaves us with the third condition of the physical world of Samsara; namely (Anatta) soul-less-ness. The Buddhist interpretation of this condition takes the most ridiculous twist that rivals anything that the Catholic Church was ever able to conjure up.

Let’s back track a bit. The Buddha named the conditions of physical existence as Dukkha (pain), Anicca (impermanence) and Anatta (soul-less-ness). Buddhists question where and when to find/end pain (Dukkha), they believe that impermanence is more than just an attribute of the physical world; they believe it is universal. But here is the most ridiculous of Buddhist beliefs. They see soul-less-ness (Anatta) as the loftiest of all targets. They see that the long road towards reaching Anatta is the last step before reaching Enlightenment. They regard it as a very difficult concept to comprehend; one that is only achievable by those who have attained huge level of wisdom.

Anatta, as Buddhists refuse to see, is perhaps the ultimate condition of ignorance. Buddhists take this ignorance to an extreme; one that is so laughable it can make one cry.

The Buddhist understanding of Anatta is not any different or more ridiculous from that of a promiscuous person warned of the dangers of AIDS and adopting AIDS as the ultimate objective of his/her life. It is not less ludicrous than a smoker believing that lung cancer is the epitome of good health and the ultimate target of healthy living.

The story of the Buddhist belief of “emptiness” is not any less ridiculous than that of Anatta. Emptiness is another description that the Buddha gave to the physical world in order to elaborate is futility and vanity. Once again, emptiness became a divine Buddhist target, a divine description that describes existence in all its forms, seen and unseen.

Shame on Buddhism, Shame shame shame.

The journey of darkness of Buddhism started soon after His physical death. His care taker, Ananda, is renowned in Buddhism as being the simple disciple who did not seem to learn much from the Buddha, but yet had an amazing memory to memorize all of His discourses.

Ananda was not the simple person he is believed to be. Had he been simple, he would not memorize and narrate conditions, settings and situations that are part-and-parcel of the discourses, conditions that are only meaningful and relevant to people who are able to understand what the discourses were about.

Ananda manipulated and diverted the Teaching of The Great Buddha in the worst manner possible. He did this over and over again in different roles of his ugly and demonic reincarnations. He is the evil prophet who, throughout the eons, took the first and very decisive step to divert those great teachings form their straight path. Damned he is in all of his reincarnations and manifestations past, present and in the future.

In their reverence of Anatta, Buddhists do not believe in the existence of self. Whilst they allege to believe in reincarnation (and they don’t), among other things, they fail to interpret what moves from a dying body into one that is coming to life.

Whilst they allege to believe that the road towards Enlightenment is one of self discovery, they remove the passenger (ie the self) from taking the journey on board. Who on earth is taking the journey if the self is removed from it? What journey can be made if the passenger is taken away?

There is a Buddhist book written by a Western nun titled “Being No One, Going No Where”. Books, they say, cannot be judged by their title. This one can be. This title illustrates at best what confused state Buddhism is in. So not only the passenger is taken away from the journey, but also the destination. So what on earth is left of the divine path?

Buddhists do not believe in law and order, but they believe in Karma. They do not believe in The One, but they believe in One-ness. They do not believe in evil, but they believe that the Buddha spoke to and of Mara (Satan). They do not believe in right and wrong, but their Noble Eight-Fold Path is based on right vision, right action, right livelihood, right, right, right…

Buddhists believe in mindfulness, but they have no idea what the Mind is. No idea at all. They do not know what Mind is any more than Christians know what Christ is or Moslems know what Rasoul (Messenger) is.

They are just a bunch of screwed up zombies who have read many books; the worst of whom are the new-age Western ones.

Buddhism has changed from being a school of ultimate wisdom into a nihilistic, soul-less, aimless quagmire. Shame on Buddhism for twisting and distorting the noble message of the Buddha. Shame on it for turning His profound Wisdom into an atheistic anarchy. Shame shame shame.

For the centuries that followed, no Buddhist sage, scholar or teacher dared to challenge those belief systems. They are considered as taboo. So on one hand Buddhism promises its rank-and-file mental freedom and a personal journey, in reality, it does not allow for any such discussions. Shame on those teachers….shame shame shame.