What does it take to become God?

[Thought Art]

@Eskilon It doesn’t teach God realization. Just google what it teaches and it won’t mention God. Buddhism teaches something important but it’s not God realization. 
 

Non-ordinary states have been witnessed by my consciousness which were not of this reality in this human survival domain. But, yes we are human trying to understand this. Smoke some NN-DMT and get ripped into infinity where no human exists and look back at yourself as an infinite and impossible object. Then ask a Buddhist about that. 
 

Anyway man! Figure it out yourself and make your own map and meaning! If you want to think Buddhism teaches God realization even though it’s not mentioned in any of its teachings go ahead. I don’t care. 
 

Go ask the most advanced, solely Buddhist practitioner if they are God, or what is God and see what they say. They might look at you like you are crazy if you say you are God. 
 

Buddhism teaches something but not God realization. 
 

In my opinion that is okay! Buddhism is fine. For my human experience it has so much to teach me still. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Thought Art

[Eskilon]

@Thought Art I don't know what to say. The teaching is indirect. Just because something is not hammered in your head like it is here doesnt mean that it doesnt teach it. A function of style and preference.

You need to understand the difference between subtle and gross -- preaching is gross, remaning in silence and letting the seeker see for himself is subtle. Both have pros and cons.

Buddha saw that preaching did more harm than good so he remained in silence and didn't answered methaphysical questions. But, that DOES NOT mean he didn't understand those things. It was a personal choice.

Edited 9 hours ago by Eskilon

[Thought Art]

@Eskilon He even teaches things which contradict it. It’s not subtle, it’s not the function of the teaching. My last reply.

[Eskilon]

8 minutes ago, Thought Art said:

He even teaches things which contradict it. It’s not subtle, it’s not the function of the teaching. My last reply.

Yeah, good that it was the last, what a waste of time.

Edited 9 hours ago by Eskilon

[Joseph Maynor]

This video helped me see the highly pragmatic side of the Buddha.  

 

[Breakingthewall]

6 hours ago, Thought Art said:

Maybe! Or maybe it wasn’t. “Their mind” hmmmmm

 

So for you enlightened is changing your mind paradigm? Then now you think that reality is a dream and that's it? Well, that's what I meant with mental projection 

[Breakingthewall]

6 hours ago, Eskilon said:

don't know what to say. The teaching is indirect. Just because something is not hammered in your head like it is here doesnt mean that it doesnt teach it. A function of style and preference.

Buddha is very easy to misinterpret, I often do, but I would say that in essence he points to the truth.

Superficially it seems like a self-help strategy, but deep down what he's telling you is to break down the barriers, and what remains is the truth, what you are.

He doesn't explain what that truth is, because it can't be explained, since that truth is you. You are the fact of reality being conscious of itself.

What Buddha calls dukkah, attachment and desire, are the veils that keep you in a contracted state, blind to yourself. Enlightenment is the end of that contraction and the opening to your true nature.

The problem with Buddha is: there is no self, self is imaginary. 

That's a mess imo, there is self, the self is the fact of knowing that you are. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Breakingthewall