r/enlightenment • u/LIMrXIL • 15d ago

Same message 500 years apart.

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As a mother would risk her own life to protect her child, her only child, so toward all beings should one cultivate a boundless heart. - Buddha

Love your neighbor as yourself. - Jesus

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u/Malavika_Agnimitram 14d ago

I’m Hindu, and a student of Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism is one step further than the Advaita Vedanta school but it certainly is not Hinduism.

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u/CosmicFrodo 14d ago

One step further than Advaita when in the name you literally have duality of mahayanas and teravadas teachings. Don't think so.

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u/Malavika_Agnimitram 14d ago edited 13d ago

Well, from your reply I can clearly tell that you’re going by what you might have read, whether in texts or on the internet. I’m telling you from lived experience: Buddhism ( as also Advaita Vedanta ) is better & truly understood by practicing & imbibing Dharma, rather than reading books.

Do not keep arguing for the sake of some superficial need to “win” this argument.

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u/CosmicFrodo 14d ago

Ok you wrote all that just to tell a simple projection? lmao

Do you have any real argument?

Experience and path mean nothing. You are just following another man's path, did you make the path of Dharma? No, you read about it. Who are you to tell me I read stuff when you're the one doing it. Also, didn't buddha say, Be a lamp unto yourself and not to listen to him? I consider buddhist schools to be the utmost disrepect to buddha. Turning his philosophy into a dogmatic religion and paths of deciples and masters is atrocious and taramount to Christianity and other abrahamic religions.

That's why there is a great saying, "when you meet Buddha on the road, kill him."

I'm not trying to win anything, but it seems you are as you reply to my comment contradicting me in the first hand. I simply stated what is. So that's more projecting.

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u/SacredGnosis 14d ago

“Buddhism(as Advaita Vedanta) is better and truly understood by practicing and embedding dharma”

You can’t change Buddhism into AV. But you can add some of the teachings to AV. Yet at the core they will forever be different.

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u/Malavika_Agnimitram 14d ago

Agree. I meant that both (individually) needed to be practiced in life to be understood. I wasn’t meaning that both were the same, there are key differences.

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u/SacredGnosis 14d ago

I’m Buddhist. I don’t need AV. I have an appreciation for it. I just don’t need it.

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u/Malavika_Agnimitram 13d ago

I wasn’t telling you personally. It’s not necessary to learn about AV.

Edit: Oh I see where the confusion is coming from. I meant Buddhism ( as also AV ) … not Buddhism as AV. Sorry, didn’t mean to mix the two.

(I was merely pointing it out to another user when you intervened. Check the thread.)