Why Buddhism is awesome
This blog post is work in progress and is unedited. In this blog post, I want to build an argument—that Buddhism is a great religion. For me, Buddhism is a standard operating procedure, a set of instructions, the goal of which is a transformed state of mind that is made of a material that does not attach itself to phenomena. Ajahn Brahm calls it a Teflon mind. For example, someone calls you a bitch or a buffoon. A person with a transformed mind would just let it pass by treating it as a mere sound (I'll tell you how this happens). A person with an untrained mind will ruminate over it for days, weeks, and months and suffer. Teflon is a material coated on non-stick pans. How this happens Close your eyes for 5 seconds and experience what is going around. You will hear people moving things around, birds chirping; feel your breathing on your chest and nose and the cushion against your buttocks; or see various mental images from the past, future or a dreamy la-la land that does not