Buddhism isn't about figuring out creationism, you have to view it from their perspective. It was an ancient cult solely focused on liberating themselves from suffering, nothing else. What you're looking for is dinduism which has all these other theories.

>>25213744
>solely focused on liberating themselves from suffering
Yes but the efficacy of the prescribed medicine is contingent, minimally, on the falsity of various Brahmanical metaphysical doctrines

>>25213744
>claims to hate suffering
>lives a life of pure suffering sleeping on cold stone in the rain and living off mice and rats

>>25213734
Certain later Mahayana and Vajrayana schools especially in East Asia sometimes articulate a universal metaphysics of unity but in a way that is made consistent with sunyata & other basic Buddhist principles, but the net effect is that it still has some degree of explanatory power regarding the universe and sometimes even teleology, and does so without reducing everything to a ‘there is only relativistic nominalistic relations’ worldview.

The people who follow these schools dont post much on /lit/ about them though, the ones on 4chan are often either just a theravadin or someone with a very materialism-adjacent interpretation of Mahayana.

>>25213734
I'm so sick of these godbotherers

>>25213734
>(that without a first principle/universal unity all systems are arbitrary).
That's literally the point.

>>25214361
>say there's no principle of unity
>yet somehow unity returned

>>25213907
I'm convinced it's only a handful and they just spam all day. Maybe they convinced their pastor that it should count as their Mission.

>>25213752
>>lives a life of pure suffering sleeping on cold stone in the rain and living off mice and rats
It's not suffering if you don't care

>>25213863
> someone with a very materialism-adjacent interpretation of Mahayana.

I literally last thread posted excepts from Karma Lingpa about ethics of meat eating, utilitarian weighing of the soul in afterlife and other topics and I was just flat out told it’s not Buddhist and Buddhists dont believe this stuff. Bla Bla Bla

>>25213734
Then buddhism Is not for you

>>25213734
It would be impossible for me to get into or understand Buddhism if I never found Buddhist authors I liked but I found several Buddhist authors I liked and now Buddhist has been successfully opened as a Wisdom Tradition that I am into

Feelsgoodman

>>25215104
>if I never found Buddhist authors I liked but I found several Buddhist authors I liked
Recommendations? Especially for any who address op's complaint directly?

>>25213752
No buddhist lives in that much misery, unless they choose it.
Monasteries are actually quite comfy.

>>25213734
If you can read either french or portuguese (as far as I'm concerned, there is no english translation yet), I can't recommend you enough "Les choses comme elles sont: une initiation au bouddhisme ordinaire" (in english: "The things as they are: an initiation to common buddhism"), by Herve Clerc.

Such an amazing book that opened up my mind completely to buddhism. The purpose of the book is convincing you that you can practice real buddhism (not those dumb new age stuff for rich white girls) without abdicating of your western culture and day-to-day lifestyle.

>>25215115
>Recommendations?
not him but try reading Bodhidharma, the father of Chan (Zen)

https://selfdefinition.org/zen/Zen-Teaching-of-Bodhidharma-trans-Red-Pine-clearscan.pdf