But he could not free himself of the desire to free himself from desire.
Galifrey224 on
Well fuck, I need to remove Buddha from by “actually good people from the past” list now. Starting to run out of good guys here.
DrHolmes52 on
We are all just ugly bags of mostly water.
Kaiser_Maximillian on
Middle aged western wannabe Buddhists in shambles
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
Yasodhara: Excuse me?
CopeDestroyer1 on
Lol, talk about taking things out of context.
Māra is a devil-king who is a metaphysical embodiment of antienlightement, i.e. everything that distracts and prevents one from liberation from suffering and endless rebirths. In many legends, he has daughters, accharās, who are celestial maidens of irresistible beauty, whom he sends at bodhisattas in order to prevent them from awakening by playing on their sexual lust. This is what happened to a sage Vishvamitra, who has the most beautiful accharā, Menakā, sent to seduce him by Indra out of the latter’s fear that the former was going to become omnipotent through the oncoming enlightenment. It succeeded and Vishvamitra fucked her like crazy, fathered a daughter and had to travel elsewhere to resume his asceticism.
Gotama here shows the depths of dedication to achieving enlightenment, not misogyny, by rejecting the pleasure of even heavenly beauties for the Nibbanic bliss, which would be unthinkable even for most modern men fully immersed in freely available and diverse pornography, much less a bunch of agrarian smallholders who would only see a naked woman when they went to a whorehouse or got married.
ThroawayJimilyJones on
Never ask what a great historical figure thought of women.
PossibleAvocado2199 on
This references a technique the Buddha teaches on how to fight lustful thoughts – to concentrate on the uglyness of the body.
Telling yourself “This ‘sexy’ person is actually full of blood and filthy innards” is pretty effective
Ferrius_Nillan on
“…as for you, fishy, you are already history”
*drives away by riding a fucking surfboard, thats animated by pure, unadulterated vitriol.*
TimothyDexter4Prez on
Statement: HK-47 must therefore be a bodhisattva, because of his deep commitment to referring to all biological creatures as “meatbags”.
GaseosaPorongol on
Please, can you tell about before that? What things he did exactly so the gods decided to send the beautiful and exotic maidens?? I´m more interested in that part. Step by step please. Thanks!
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Wait so Indra tried this shit with Buddha too?
But he could not free himself of the desire to free himself from desire.
Well fuck, I need to remove Buddha from by “actually good people from the past” list now. Starting to run out of good guys here.
We are all just ugly bags of mostly water.
Middle aged western wannabe Buddhists in shambles
Yasodhara: Excuse me?
Lol, talk about taking things out of context.
Māra is a devil-king who is a metaphysical embodiment of antienlightement, i.e. everything that distracts and prevents one from liberation from suffering and endless rebirths. In many legends, he has daughters, accharās, who are celestial maidens of irresistible beauty, whom he sends at bodhisattas in order to prevent them from awakening by playing on their sexual lust. This is what happened to a sage Vishvamitra, who has the most beautiful accharā, Menakā, sent to seduce him by Indra out of the latter’s fear that the former was going to become omnipotent through the oncoming enlightenment. It succeeded and Vishvamitra fucked her like crazy, fathered a daughter and had to travel elsewhere to resume his asceticism.
Gotama here shows the depths of dedication to achieving enlightenment, not misogyny, by rejecting the pleasure of even heavenly beauties for the Nibbanic bliss, which would be unthinkable even for most modern men fully immersed in freely available and diverse pornography, much less a bunch of agrarian smallholders who would only see a naked woman when they went to a whorehouse or got married.
Never ask what a great historical figure thought of women.
This references a technique the Buddha teaches on how to fight lustful thoughts – to concentrate on the uglyness of the body.
Telling yourself “This ‘sexy’ person is actually full of blood and filthy innards” is pretty effective
“…as for you, fishy, you are already history”
*drives away by riding a fucking surfboard, thats animated by pure, unadulterated vitriol.*
Statement: HK-47 must therefore be a bodhisattva, because of his deep commitment to referring to all biological creatures as “meatbags”.
Please, can you tell about before that? What things he did exactly so the gods decided to send the beautiful and exotic maidens?? I´m more interested in that part. Step by step please. Thanks!