Because I think it's one of the profoundly interesting questions. Intellectually or not.
Another way to engage if that doesn't resonate it: what's a book (or books) you read that profoundly changed your worldview/view of life and when did you read it?
The big question, you really get to choose if you want to be a good or bad person. Of course you choose to be a good person, but then how do you do that?
When trying to figure that out, the realization is that lots of people fail at being a good person. It's not about the 'would you like to give $2 to childrens charity' but rather a training that is needed for your brain. When you look for what this training is, you become buddhist.
Through meditation, you can train to be aware of your thoughts, which arent yours, and thus by extension your actions which arent yours until after training. Once you become aware of the proverbial bad and good angels on your shoulders. You start responding and not reacting to life.
There comes a point where you dive into the Jhanas. Then you buy an at home EEG to become an expert at meditation. Right concentration by Leigh Brasington explains all.
Then you go through some stuff and end up a christian suddenly. Realizing that christianity is a buddhist sect; or really that all religions are trying to explain an unexplainable thing that cant be captured by human language.
The meditation practices I follow are taken directly from Buddhism and a lot of core Buddhist principles and ethics make a lot of sense to me but I don't call myself Buddhist or accept every single thing in the Buddhist tradition.
fjfaase•8mo ago