Friday, January 3, 2025

Mahayana Buddhism is Antithetical to True Deliverance (Uppamado Amata Padan)

In my opinion of Mahayana Buddhism is that it is the degeneration of Original Buddhist Concepts into regional cultural practices.

Mahayana has added many regional philosophical contents into Buddhist practice outside the main realm.

It is actually the Hindu mysticism that has degenerated the Original Buddhist Concepts.

That is the very reason for it's degeneration.

Anything that prolong Samara or the recurring Birth Cycle is antithetical to Buddhist Thinking.

Theravada has one path 
1. Ekayana Maggo.
It is Satara Sathipattana

Its goal is 
2. Uppamado Amata Padan.
Strive hard with diligence on the path of deliverance.
 
Do not delay the goal i.e; the emancipation.

One might not get another chance.
Human life is Extremely Rare.

Whereas, Mahavansa willfully delay emancipation by aspiring to become a Bodhisattva.
It is trying to take to many paths, mostly rituals, reciting stanzas and asceticism instead of the real meditation or the concentration on the path of deliverance.

One common thread should be Meditation for Ultimate Emancipation.

They are willfully meditating to delay the emancipation or escape from Rebirth Cycle.

It is an antithesis to Uppamado Amata Padan.

Strive Hard as, if there is no second chance is the True Wayfarer's Goal.


The Bodhisattva Problem

I said above that each extreme attitude—“Nikāya purism” and “Mahāyāna elitism”—neglects facts that are discomforting to their respective points of view. 

Mahāyāna Elitism” neglects the fact that in his historical manifestation, so far as we can determine through the early records of his teachings, the Buddha did not teach the bodhisattva path

This path emerges only in documents that start to appear at least a century after his passing

What the Buddha consistently taught, according to the early records, is the attainment of nirvāna by reaching arahantship

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