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Pointless existence (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If only there was a way to be a non-religious monk.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

i'm pretty sure a nonreligious monasteary is just a commune

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Study and talking to other people about a fringe hobby is the closest you can get to becoming a modern monk.

I wonder if in the future there would be monasteries dedicated to retrocomputers or fungi enthusiasts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Years ago, I read an interview with Leonard Cohen who, as you might remember, became a Buddhist monk. He stated that in the monastery, you're free to do pretty much anything - in your free time. Listen to rock music, take drugs, no-one cares.
It's just that you don't have any free time because every day is 100% structured.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not non-religious, but Buddhists don’t believe in god 🤷‍♂️ it’s something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's way more complicated than that. Can depend on the sect, or even the individual. There's a lot of Buddhist stereotypes that persist from how westerners first reported back about Buddhists to other westerners.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I know, but still, the oldest schools of Buddhism don’t have anything that would equate to what we in the west consider a god, or gods.

I know that in east asia, south-east Asia etc., there are schools of Buddhism that do have gods.

But Buddhism being in many ways a rejection of brahamical religion in north india/nepal, also rejected the idea of gods when it first started to develop. I think that’s pretty uncontroversial no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they dont believe in capital g God but buddhism has plenty of gods for sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Depends on the school of Buddhism sure. That’s true. Some don’t have anything resembling what we call God or even gods tho.