Re: Where Buddhism Failed Miserably .........or Gotamas refusal to give detailed metaphysics....Or, why modern "buddhists" are total damned idiots

On Feb 3, 12:33 pm, ancientbuddh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Where Buddhism Failed Miserably
Or, the story of a successful failure

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     It cannot be disputed that anything popular cannot be true, even
if the original article, long lost to the winds of time a buried under
unenlightened commentary, was in fact a true and Aryan teaching
regarding either metaphysics or the liberation from existential
selfhood. For, all things popular are by the very definition of same,
profane and ignoble; that the common man is a senseless brute who does
not, cannot cleave his mind to things deep, abstruse, mystical and
endowed with Aryan virtues regarding things hidden and sublime.
Nothing true or noble has ever been obtained by or thru consensus,
least of which being metaphysics, or its secular ***-child,
religion. The so-called ‘secret’ teachings as conventionally called
today; rooted in the Aryan metaphysics of Platonism (Pythagorean
Emanationism), pre-sectarian Buddhism (deemed Brahmayana, path to the
Absolute, by its founder), Advaita and the like are only so deemed
secret or hidden such that the overwhelming majority of peoples are
devoid of any mentality to grasp the immaterial and subjective nature
of the ministries left by those greats who understood and related the
nature of the Absolute, of souls, and the kosmos noetos; the only
secret in the ‘secret’ teachings is that sufficient wisdom is required
to understand them, not that their message has been purposefully
obscured.
     Advaita has remained nearly 100% intact in its message over these
many centuries, whereas Buddhism is entirely dead. Books such as “The
Rise and Decline of Buddhism in India” and likewise have attempted to
answer this question, giving correct reasoning for its decline such as
1. the creation of countless schisms and myriad short-lived sects 2.
the explosive expansion of ritualized fetishism in the form of
Mahayanism 3. Brahmanical hostility and campaigns against Buddhism 4.
Pessimistic nihilism on the part of later-day Buddhism which over
emphasized suffering alone 5. Royal persecution 6. Muslim massive
destruction of temples and killing off of Buddhist monastics 7.
Decline in patronage 8. No genuine decline of true, or earliest
Buddhist metaphysics but its gradual reassimilation back into Vedanta
of which Buddhism was merely a reestablishment thereof. All of these
however pale collectively, as the reasoning behind Buddhism’s utter
demise in time as compared its missionary nature and its utter lack of
metaphysics.
     Before getting to the main reason for Buddhism’s complete death
it should be noted that none have made note that, in the Nikayas
Buddhism does in fact espouse and instruct a “spread the word”
missionary position by its founder Gotama. Anytime an Aryan
metaphysics has given into this position it is short order for its
message’s utter corruption and dissolution. However Buddhism’s current
popularity is such that this very same perverted missionary faith was
spread far beyond the Ganges valley into Afghanistan, Iran, China, and
the Ashokan pillar edicts mention Buddhist missionaries as far west at
the lands of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt;
fools instructing even more unintelligent fools in the ‘message of
Gotama’. That Advaita specifically was always a relatively small and
close-to-the-master (upa-ni-shad, to sit up close [to the master])
faith and therefore there was little room for misunderstanding and
corruption of the teachings, is only a portion of the reason for
Advaita’s intact nature after all these centuries. The Advaitins,
rightly so, were called Mayavadins by their peers for the sensible
reason that Advaita was highly keen on debating the nature of maya, of
avidya (agnosis, or rightly meant Brahman’s attribute) in a highly
detailed and specific manner, i.e. the philosophical and metaphysical
werks of the Absolute, as to how things material and immaterial have
come to be in the system of Advaita’s model of the cosmos, just as the
Neoplatonists themselves became notorious for.
     Buddhism’s coffin nail came directly from Gotama himself both in
primarily refusing repeated requests to establish the metaphysics of
his system and secondarily for being a poor teacher. Unfortunately
Gotama suffered the same fate he makes mention of regarding others in
the Anguttara Nikaya where he declared that though a man may be fully
illuminated he is not therefore so endowed with the mental prowess to
pass along the methodology to achieve same amongst others. Such
notable positions as when Gotama is asked to elaborate upon the
meaning of avijja (paticcasamuppada #1, i.e. the cause of the descent
of Being into embodiment) Gotama merely declares “avijja to mean not
knowing the four noble truths”. Pathetically the only approach to a
pseudo-metaphysical explanation in the entirety of the Nikayas by
Gotama regarding avijja is [AN 5.113] Followers, the beginning of
ignorance can never be discerned (beginningless) such that it cannot
be said “Here is the First where ignorance is not, here is the
contingency which generated it.” Such that it should be discerned,
followers, “ignorance is a condition”.
     That in Monism, the most important metaphysical principle
requiring explanation, the cause of descent of Being, receives one
obscure sentence from Gotama and same receives endless volumes from,
initially Samkara, and far more still from his immediate disciples,
cannot be ignored as anything less than the primary factor for
Buddhism’s death and Advaita’s survival. Metaphysical systems are not
survived in numbers (of followers) but in the expanse and accuracy its
metaphysics. As mentioned 1-9 earlier, as grounds for Buddhism’s
decline, Buddhism has survived, but in name only, its message is
completely and irrefutably deceased. Buddhism alas could have easily
withstood 1 thru 9, but not its founders myopic ignorance in refusing
to establish the metaphysics of his system. It is a truism of
philosophical history that nothing true is popular and nothing popular
is true. Gotama’s refusal to establish a metaphysics has left a
pathetic religious façade of Mahayanists, oriental and farcical Zen,
and far worse the survival since its inception in the early centuries
C.E., Theravada materialism, or properly physicalism. Rightly so in
Gotama’s time, life was both short and harsh, and his position to
teach a crash course in, firstly, disobjectification by becoming
disgusted with formerly desired after objective phenomena and lastly
assimilation (samadhi), was worthwhile and noble, but only so long as
he remained around to direct others towards same. Without an expansive
and solid metaphysics, which precedes the methodology, sans the
teacher there is right quick dissolution and intent of the methodology
as well.
     In Buddhism’s instance, the failure to establish elaborately the
nature of the atman, of avidya specifically, as Advaita had so
carefully constructed, it became quickly apparent that the extensive
via negativa approach of Buddhism without an accompanying metaphysics
for same, lead its heirs to acquisition anatman as implied reality
rather than an objective qualifier (A,B,C,D are anatman, are not-
atman, are na me so atta ‘not my Soul’). In so taking anatman,
incorrectly, subjectively, Buddhism’s heirs have to wit negated the
endgoal of the very methodology which Gotama spelled out in full
“atman as light and refuge” [DN 2.100 etc.]. In teaching this quick
and expedient means of liberation sans a detailed metaphysics,
Buddhism had from the start doomed itself to failure. It might be
asked by the unintelligent that since Buddhism is a popular (=
profane, common, base, unaryan) religion (secular mirage of
metaphysics) how could it be said that Buddhism is at all dead? This
question loaded brim with ignorance however presumes that quantity
outstretches even miniscule quality. Plato, and his heir Plotinus, the
two most brilliant metaphysicians and true philosophers who have ever
lived are, today, possessed of far less than a handful of those who
would be rightly deemed and self-professed ‘Platonists’, however these
few are genuine metaphysicians and philosophers endowed with nobility
and worth.
     Gotama, while an illumined sage and knower of the Absolute did
not possess the mentality, the intellectual prowess to transfer his
revelation across the ages. His unwilling attitude towards
illuminating his metaphysics and instead focusing in upon his
expeditious methodology ultimately doomed his methodology in the end.
Philosophical and metaphysical systems in great detail are not
required to ‘reach the far shore’, however time and logic have shown
irrefutably that those same metaphysical systems are required to alay
sectarian divisions, squabbles over the endgoal if any, and the
premise of the methodology itself. Gotamas vehicle (yana) sped along
with its followers, but after his passing, his lack of illuminating
the metaphysical works of his vehicle to liberation left his heirs
with a vehicle to which they were and are clueless as to the hows,
whats, wheres, and whys of its operation, akin to a stranded driver
along the road with a broken vehicle of which he himself is utterly
ignorant to know how to repair.
     Buddhism is today a successful failure, not much apart from
Creationism or Atheism however its in profane standing as apart from
nobility; is little more than a Humanistic affirmation of mundane
ethical things irrelevant to the original article, or as Dr. A.K.
Coomaraswamy had said “Buddhism is most famous today for everything it
originally never taught”. Gotama was a miserable failure in the most
important fashion, that in which he failed to see or to realize that
without a metaphysics, his ministry was forever doomed from the
outset. In this point there can be no contention; Gotama was not wise
enough to ever realize the magnificent error he made which has evolved
into a successful and dismal failure we call ‘Buddhism’ today, but
which should be shown nothing but contempt by the wise few.

Elderberries grow and drop fruit to feed worms of thought.
The lights appear on.
Who thinks someone is home?
Wormfood knows not folly but thinks it owns everything.
Eagles soar.
There is no place to go but down as they are not happy.
Can you save them from the fall?
Who wants to?
They died a long time ago before you were born.
Do you remember?
If you upgrade your package it will not help.
The cost will be the same.
Ask the worms.
ZN
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