Buddhism

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• Buddhism is not a religion, it's a philosophy, a framework for looking at life.
• Why is it the best one? There isn't a “best” one, but I think it's one that leads to less suffering.
  • Both the suffering we inflict on ourselves and on others.
• No Buddhist would consider me a Buddhist, but that's okay because I don't think they are either. 😉
  • Zen seems to be the closest. Just sit.

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I consider Buddhism to be a philosophy. A long time ago a guy figured out a way of looking at the world that made life better. He taught some others guys and then got convinced to let girls into the club (but only as second-class citizens) and then he died. The people he had taught spread the word and a couple of hundred years later someone had the brilliant idea of writing things down.

Now, because of that “couple of hundred” years I consider everything the Buddha said to be apocryphal. Maybe there wasn't even an actual Buddha. Maybe it was woman and someone didn't think that was cool so they retconned her out of the story. It doesn't matter, what matters is that some wisdom was arrived at and was, eventually, written down so that it could be translated and discovered by me. What matters is the way that wisdom, that way of looking at the world, can impact your life for the better.