No.111133
No, I don't mean the band, but enlightenment.
>fedoralords rejoice, for Buddhism is not a religion: you're SUPPOSED to doubt, question, debate what the Buddha and the Ariyas taught, for that is the only way one gains wisdom beyond book knowledge
>understanding that life is stupid and pointless, again a perfect fit for edgy atheists
>not addicted to sense-pleasures anymore because you realize it's never worth it because you'll always lose what you like and get what you don't want, including your life, and probably suffer tremendously from the consequences of your actions after all that bad karma ("karma" is but the law of cause-and-effect: simply the bed you made after committing immoral acts with hate, greed, and/or ignorance) accrued by pursuing but a drop of fleeting joy
>along the way towards achieving enlightenment: living a simple, moral life feels good, man; one must at least obey the conventional five precepts of not killing, stealing, lying, engaging in sexual misconduct, or using excessive amounts of alcohol and other addictions (like doomscrolling and vidya all day erry day) to chill out long enough to strive towards uprooting hate, greed, and ignorance
>you CAN meditate in a way that you "feel" a taste of Nirvana even in this very life by temporarily suppressing the five hindrances that keep your mind perpetually agitated ("the eyes are fire, the ears are fire..."); we who are inept worldly beings are stressed out ALL THE TIME but we don't know better until a Buddha arises to tell us how to quit it because that's the only thing we've ever experienced, think of Nirvana as the relief after having an endless traumatic headache your entire life, nothing esoteric about it
>eventual ego death at the fourth and final stage: you will be nothing and be happy, a "happiness" of total cooling down from the agitation caused by craving and karmic consequences that is only achievable by total erasure the of hate, greed, and ignorance that keep you trapped by thirst for fruitless fun
And all you gotta do is comprehend, even a tiny bit, the three characteristics of the world: anicca, dukkha, anatta. And no, anicca does NOT mean impermanence, dukkha means a lot more than mere pain and sorrow as we know it, and anatta does NOT mean no-self. And Nirvana isn't some mystical incomprehensible woo, it just means the non-arising of attachment and never again being reborn in the suffering-filled and beginningless rebirth process. (There is a huge amount of scientific evidence for past lives, by the way, and what we mean by "consciousness" doesn't reside in the brain but modern science has practically nothing on the mind and how our senses alone generate what we believe to be reality but only a Buddha can perceive things as they really are.)
