I like vegetarian dish, but...

The idea that one who is spiritual will celebrate the feasting of vegan meals made with love makes me cringe

I think it's the "especially going out of your way to do things" part

Then again, I am also someone who is kind of against fasting for any reason

Maybe asceticism works for some people, but not me

i feel this deeply

i guess it's an offshoot of some buddhism/asceticism stuff...

If anything, Buddha has attempted asceticism, and ultimately decided that this was stupid

Because he nearly starved himself to death

and then a woman offered him milk, and he was like, "I need to eat!"

Hinduism was very much about asceticism

and his early followers saw him drinking milk and were like, "Oh shit, he's renouncing his ways because he's partaking in sustenance!"

Buddha during his time was in large part rebelling against the Hinduism tradition and religious practice

"Food is important"

"Killing an animal for a ritual is dumb"

ahh, so kinda like how jesus's stuff is culturally related to peaceful but impactful protest against the romans

Something like that

But because Siddhatha was actually a crowned prince in the first place, he probably had a significant political immunity

I mean his father was still the king, and he did have an heir before leaving the palace for the journey of self-discovery

There was a deified part of his story that talked about how he had a jealous cousin who wanted him dead, and he sent him to hell, but I think something else actually happened. I don't think he had the power to send people to damnation

He said something along the line of, "Stop trying to ruin my life because worse things will happen to you."

I think his father probably assassinated his cousin in real life

It's ironic that now people are doing exactly what Buddha didn't want them to practice in his name

like... starving themselves, offer foodstuff to his gold-plated statue in giant gold-plated temples

I don't think he'd want to do any of that

I look at Myanmar and how the people live in poverty, and yet they still give to build a gold temple for him, and I'm like... no I don't think he wants this

My relatives don't get it

When I told them that

They said that people want something to worship, but... I... don't think that's what he wants?

Jesus didn't want people to kill for him either :/ but unfortunately that tends to get warped over time

they don't offer meat to Buddha, but plating him in gold is just as warped