Alan Watts (alanwatts.org) "Out of Your Mind," Essential Listening with Alan Watts, Session 10 (SoundsTrue.com) via Eye 1; Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly]
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Mahayana Buddhism, the larger (~90% of Buddhists) of the two dominant schools nowadays, was chewed up by Brahmin priests. They made the new revolutionary teachings of Shakyamuni (the "Sage of the Scythians") that were displacing their religion into something they could tolerate, something that did not differ from their texts.
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The same Vedic Hindu ideas spread everywhere. |
So the chance for enlightenment (awakening) is lost. And all religions end up saying the same thing, as if all paths led to the same goal. But the Buddha's goal was nothing short of nirvana, and that is not the same as heaven, Hindu or Jain moksha, or what other religions call salvation.
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