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Actually the difference is practical only for the
mind at first when one is on the path. Because at that point one can immerse the
mind in samadhi and yet when returning to the daily life nothing has changed and
one keeps making the same mistakes and still one can't seem to get it just
right. So what is needed are skillful means to become not just a
transcending personality but a transcendental personality. Buddhism in working
with the negative of a person starts way ahead in terms of philosophy for being
transcendental because one doesn't much care what oneself thinks in the first
place because its understood to be delusional and self serving. Not taking
oneself very seriously at all really helps one open their eyes while in activity
without all sorts of personality issues. Of course, that I'm even saying this is
wrong and I am delusional because I prolly have the biggest ego here of the lot.
I was bordering on personality issues at work with the other chef. We're both
tired. Ah, too much thinking. Thought is unimportant as it's just more maya.
Think I'll take a real look around. This is Buddhism. What is right here
right now? This is Buddhism. Hinduism, ahh yes, God is great and the yugas are
changing follow your varna, wait till you're old to go be sannyas in the
aranyaka. But if you go all the way then is liberation. Mostly for the
renunciate like Buddhism, but in both are also the agamas and
nigamas. Tantra is the path for someone who would be liberated so that they
can chop and carry. There are four dharmas in Hinduism of which moksha is
one, in Buddhism there is The Dharma of liberation only.
However, tantra is like drinking poison, once
started the mind and personality dissolve and someone if they really were
materialists can feel like hell. It takes the having sex on a corpse in a
graveyard mentality for Bhairava and Chandi practice, same for Chod and
Trekchod. Don't have that mentality then don't do tantra.
Are the goals the same? Well, prolly not since if
you go right and I go left chances are we won't meet.
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