Posted on 10/29/2019 5:26:52 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
Buddhist indoctrination and meditation techniques are being forced on government-school children across America under the harmless-sounding term “mindfulness,” sparking a growing wave of opposition and legal challenges. Critics said imposing it in public education is not just wrong, but illegal as well. Children as young as 5 are being ordered to participate.
While the controversial program claims to be a “secularized” version of Buddhist practices that have traditionally been viewed as occult and dangerous by Christians, critics are nevertheless sounding the alarm. And despite claims of being “secular,” it does not take much digging beneath the surface to detect the obvious anti-Christian nature of the “mindfulness education” schemes.
In America, the ideas were pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who established a “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the late 1970s. Since then, “mindfulness” educators boast of reaching hundreds of thousands of American school children. Millions in taxpayer funding from local, state, and even federal governments have been spent on “mindfulness” education, too.
But the religious and spiritual overtones are hard to ignore. In a video on “Mindfulness in Education” by expert Amy Burke, the very first quote comes from an Indian guru and so-called “World Teacher” by the name of “Jiddu Krishnamurti,” from his book “Education and the Significance of Life.” The decision to quote this particular character guru offers significant insight into what this is all about.
This guru, who was adopted and trained by the head of a Luciferian cult known as the “Theosophical Society,” was blunt about his pagan agenda. “You want to have your own gods – new gods instead of the old, new religions instead of the old, new forms instead of the old – all equally valueless, all barriers, all limitations, all crutches,” Krishnamurti explained.
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And their idea of perfection is self annihilation.
And you don't know anything about Buddhism. I encourage you to learn about it instead of making yourself look particularly ignorant.
No, that is false. It is annihilation of the self. Big difference.
I’m not sure you quite understand it my friend. Or got some bad information about true Buddhism. But I will agree that because it is very unfortunately wrongfully categorized as a religion, it should not be taught in schools if none of the others are not allowed. :)
But I’m not going to cuss a philosophy that holds absolutely no hate for other religions or philosophies like Christianity and Islam both do. Buddhism is a harmless ideology. What needs to be categorized as a true cult and thrown out of schools is the current communist doctrine.
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Bringing the mind into 'here, now' in my view is the most effective worldly way not only to reduce the expression of original sin and hence its consequences to its smallest power, but also I would argue that 'pure consciousness of this moment' is what was meant by 'the light of God' -> (and is equal to 'eternity' - not 'infinite time' but 'no time at all' (which is not the same as 'zero time')) i.e. that the 'Light of God' IS pure consciousness with no thought (pure consciousness can not contain sin, it requires thinking) but I have no place telling kids that and frankly nobody agrees with me anyway :-)
So if they want to use it help the general attention deficit and stress that is inherent in being a kid especially these days, and let its physical/mental health benefits work their magic, great.
But unfortunately, in the rare times when Lefties get religious, they tend to glom onto a bogus westernized version of traditional Buddhism/Zen, and it's total crap and fake.
But if things like Yoga are taught as merely 'a better gym class', good for your body and mind, fine, just keep the spirituality out of the schools, because the left is bound to use it to further their agenda. Buddhism can be fake taught as 'a-moral pure consciousness one with the universe' sophistry and what better sophistry for the left could there be.
Buddhism is not evil (if you think it is, probably what you've been exposed to is evil, just as bastardized versions of 'Christianity' are easy to manufacture on purpose or by mistake) but it is very subtle and difficult to get it without getting it wrong, so it can be just as easily torqued for evil, and making it mean what you want. The Buddha HIMSELF originally didn't want to teach, for that very reason.
I'm a big fan of the Fat Happy man, but I am no fan of bureaucrats attempting to pass it on to kids. It would be safer to give the kids some uranium and a how-to-make-lemonade-with-uranium book.
I know...
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Anything but God.
Uranium oxide was a frequent guest at science fairs when I was a kid...
***GROAN***
Oh, that's bad.........
“... however it’s usually in self defense.”
I read a great article many years ago by a Buddhist priest in Boston. It was about how one of his students was very surprised that the priest had a carry permit and carried all the time. When challenged about how that seemed to conflict with his pacifism, he said that how could he claim to defend others if he was unwilling to defend himself.
That’s always stuck with me.
Sounds like an absolutely outrageous evil philosophy to me... Any of this sound familiar?
“Buddhism, unlike most religions, is not based on the worship of a deity; rather, it is a set of moral guidelines and practices, which, if followed, can bring you to the ultimate state of reality and peace. The Buddha is said to have expounded these morals after he reached enlightenment, or nirvana: the true understanding of the universe. Because Buddhism was founded on the principles set forth in the Buddha’s teachings, the tenets by which Buddhists live depend wholly on these teachings.”
“The Eightfold Path, as described by the Buddha, is the way to self-awakening and the escape of suffering. Each of the eight steps begins with the word “right,” suggesting that enlightenment is reached by finding a moral correctness that comes with understanding that absolutely everything is connected. The eight “rights” can be subdivided into three categories: wisdom, conduct and concentration. Within these three categories the eight rights, in order, are: view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration. To achieve the Eightfold Path, however, you must not simply understand each of these but live them in every moment.”
“On the most basic level, there are five moral standards by which anyone who decides to take refuge in the Buddha must follow. Essentially these are the five moral laws of Buddhism. The first is to refrain from killing, which extends to food, making many Buddhists vegetarians. The next two are to refrain from stealing and any sort of sexual misconduct. The final two are refraining from false speech, which includes not only lies but also harmful words, and from the use of substances which alter the mind.”
https://classroom.synonym.com/buddhist-morals-and-guidelines-12086644.html
My teacher is the same way. His gun collection may be better than mine.
FWIW Buddhism does not adhere to or promote the philosophy of pacifism. Buddhist philosophy is better described as non-aggression.
Agent J (Will Smith) stated the idea rather succinctly in Men In Black; “My attitude is: don’t start nothin’, won’t be nothin’!”
A Buddhist will in a heart beat defend themselves, and more importantly they will go out of their way to defend others who cannot. But only enough to disable the threat and always stop shy of killing.
‘I don’t have a God in this fight...’
ha ha ha...
The 4 noble truths Straight from the Buddha’s mouth:
1. Dukkha: The purpose of life is to suffer. We suffer in this life for the sins in our past life.
2. Samudaya: Sin is being attached to this world (Universe)which taught by Buddhism to be an illusion.
3. Nirodha: The way to end suffering (Stop being reincarnated) is to give up everything (All reality is an illusion this is why the Buddha’s eyes are always closed there is nothing worth seeing)
4.Magga: The use of meditation and self-denial is the means to enlightenment and the way to overcome the wheel of Samsara. The mantra brings the individual to perfect nothingness. No personality, no knowing, now pain no good or evil. When the Buddha talks of joining with nothingness he meant a vacuum, a complete and total void.
It is a depressing philosophy and totally fatalistic. Buddhist appear calm because literally nothing is worth more than something
This is the basic teaching of Buddhism.
By the way: Reincarnation, as described in the Buddhist text, is logically, metaphysically and mathematically impossible.
Yes, always. You can bet your life on that. :)
I don’t know where you got those definitions of the Four Noble Truths but they are all complete bull schiff.
Well, true purist Buddhists anyways... :)
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