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>What is stunning is that the core elements are near-identical despite the different origins of the different systems.
The truth is that drugs and theistic cults like hinduism, mahayana, all the judaisms are all the same. What ever happens in a drug spree is a tiny version of the ''meditation'' the non druggies do, but they derive the same conclusion. This is true. And It's just he perrenialist view, ie muh all religions are the same. Perennials are right so far. What they get wrong is that whatever inside a meditation is not nirvana. IE, religious people, and all the atheist dimwits who ''love spirituality but hate religions'', say nirvana=meditation, muh connecting with the one, with pristine awareness, with god (and this sparkled a shitshow in judaisms with the chiasm of chrsitinaity and orthodoxy , muh jesus is half human half god), but buddhists say it's not.

Now the way buddhists do it is by using radicality. The historical analog is Descartes using radical doubt to get knowledge, and this generated all the science atheists love. This is why western midwits think buddhism is compatible with science. Buddhism doesnt give a shit about knowledge. Buddhism is about suffering.
So budda wants to end suffering, and he analyses every aspect of what he experiences and try to find sth which is not suffering and even sth not tainted by suffering. As soon as something is tainted by suffering, it is thrown way and must be avoided at all cost.
He does that over and over and over until he finds the condition for suffering to rise and for suffering to cease. At this point knowledge is introduced because it turns out it's crucial to end suffering. The special knowledge triggers dispassion from what is tainted by suffering and suffering ends forever:

>In this way, dispassion has knowledge & vision of release as its purpose, knowledge & vision of release as its reward. Disenchantment has dispassion as its purpose, dispassion as its reward. Knowledge & vision of things as they actually are has disenchantment as its purpose, disenchantment as its reward. Concentration has knowledge & vision of things as they actually are as its purpose, knowledge & vision of things as they actually are as its reward. Pleasure has concentration as its purpose, concentration as its reward. Serenity has pleasure as its purpose, pleasure as its reward. Rapture has serenity as its purpose, serenity as its reward. Joy has rapture as its purpose, rapture as its reward. Freedom from remorse has joy as its purpose, joy as its reward. Skillful virtues have freedom from remorse as their purpose, freedom from remorse as their reward.
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