# I don't get Buddhism

**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/i-dont-get-buddhism/46576
**Category:** Religion and Spirituality
**Created:** [October 4, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/i-dont-get-buddhism/46576 "2019-10-04T22:05:09Z")
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### Author: ![MagsJ](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/magsj/32/23935_2.png) [@MagsJ](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MagsJ)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/i-dont-get-buddhism/46576/1346 "2020-07-07T09:05:00Z")

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> > How the ancients practised their Dharma and why… or whatever their local nuanced Practice was, is not pertinent for today’s needs, so the How and Why are based on the Here and Now, to aid the individual in the There and Then… whatever that There and Then might be.
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> Well, I can’t explore this with the ancients of course so it’s between me and those who are reading these words. And my interest in religion revolves almost entirely around connecting dots existentially between morality here and now and immortality there and then. Given the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of different spiritual paths to choose from. And, in turn, given what is at stake. Why yours and not theirs? Why should a No God atheist believe there is an afterlife at all? How do the faithful demonstrate it? Through leaps of faith? Okay, fine. But with all the paths out there [and that’s just on this planet] what are the odds that theirs is The One?

Why our path over someone else’s? because one is not supposed to stray too far from their inherent Dharma is why, otherwise one would become open to coercion, corruption, abuse, etc.

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> And to what extent have those who have chosen a path explored the extent to which choosing here is itself predicated largely on the manner in which, in regard to value judgments, I construe the “self” as an existential contraption rooted in dasein.

You tell me? as you’re the one questioning it, not I… perhaps it’s a reason why one should be practicing their Dharma, then perhaps there’d be less questions and more self-actualised answers.

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> > Words cannot always express a thought(s) or a feeling(s), that has become entrenched in a Nation’s psyche over millennia and therefore become innate… an unspoken word, or is it a thought, passed on through genes but not necessarily memes.
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> Yes, that’s how it works alright. Words become reflections of enormously complex historical, cultural and subjective interpersonal relationships rooted genetically and memetically out in a particular world understood by each individual given the manner in which “I” have come to understand human identity in the is/ought world.

Nicely put, and well-phrased… 🙂

Even kin see and experience the world and things differently, at a certain cut-off point somewhere in their minds.

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> And yet the objectivists persist. Why? Because, in my view, “I” becomes invested all the more in what I call the psychology of objectivism: [viewtopic.php?f=15&t=185296](http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=185296)

Nice [opening post…](http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=185296&start=275#p2455972)

I’d say… that you’ve described the process of maturing/learning/individually-evolving/progression, so getting over one’s ego/getting over the-self, of which some reach there much more sooner than others… some may never… some don’t need to because they were already there.

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> Especially in our profoundly problematic postmodern age where, through such mediums as the internet, we can become exposed to countless [often hopelessly conflicted] depictions of “reality”.

Then I’d say… we need to choose our reality wisely… the one that we want to fit into the objective state of the formative/the causative, that all thoughts and actions finally find themselves arriving at.

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