It is like maths for existentialism.
People might deny or not notice it but that means that people ignore and deny the truth and not make it false.
Anyone mentally capable can deduce the same things and achieve nirvana without ever knowing about buddha.

One of my life quests was to make my default state uncaring to the extreme. In order to be untouchable by circumstances and failures no matter how bad things get until everything became tasteless. You can't be sad if you don't differentiate between the things you like and things you don't like. But you can't be happy either. All reality becomes tasteless and you can't bother to struggle for either outcome, you let reality do whatever it is meant to do because you don't need anything anymore. You aren't attached to things anymore. If any outcome is equal then you can't attach to hopes, will and wishes too because they are equal to nightmares and failures. Detachment. I call it the first major development on person's path.

Anyone living for long enough will realize it by the sheer amount of experience and looking at patterns. People might not trust word but they would trust their own eyes when reflecting on their past and what they saw. The more honest and selfless you are in seeking for patterns the faster realization comes and I don't mean it is only detachment as in 4 noble truths but I can't share it. It goes exactly the same case as for learning maths, if you honestly try and look what connects things, patterns, it accelerates because you are not ignorant and actively seek answers, separate correct from incorrect.

But it is not the finish point when you detach and realize it is futile to cling to anything. There is so many derivatives of the realization, some to be understood by people freshly after realization and some still unknown by people 50 years after realization. There is a major breaking point that shatters detached people once again but this time it sends them on a one way straight path only closer to nirvana which people rarely achieve anyway. That is the second major development.

It is a mistake to think that you are superior after you genuinely realize the nature of reality at the first development. It only means you are now able to get on the path to perfection and not perfect yet, not even yet on the one way path to perfection, just able to advance to it as it is a prerequisite.

I could elaborate on the second major development but I don't think it would be beneficial. If you stop seeking you might fall to ignorance. You don't have to push for it, or read every buddhist book, listen to every monk and every kind of understanding. But instead don't settle forever in ignorance and advance in your pace. A person could reach their point of will to learn and discover, or their limit of perception or any other factor. All are fine.

But there are much deeper truths at the last development which is everyone's personal contact with ultimate reality. A person might not grasp the final truth, but only ever touch it, or worse: believe it. It is the point where you choose to either to never advance further and stay impure, or go beyond it and hop on the path directly to nirvana which would be the third and last development in my opinion. That point goes as nuts as 0/0 in maths.

Picture is unrelated but I like it.

Buddhist Anon stop spamming /b/ when we have a dedicated Buddhism thread on /lounge/ already

But since you asked politely, I like esoteric Buddhism quite a lot although I am not a Buddhist at all. Some of the basic teachings of Buddha are clearly correct when you seperate it from the horde of new age Western "Buddhists." Buddhism explains why the internet is a shithole too. Its blatantly obvious. Buddha was a great and wise sage.

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I am the one who can't stand 5 minutes without sharing how meditation is exciting and it is almost entirely me kicking around this topic but I did not make the thread.
I only responded

Given the enthusiasm for Buddhism on Heyuri, we should demand a Buddhism board where Buddhist anon can ramble about meditation and random anons can spin wheels and paint oekaki only to destroy it later.

certain schools of mahayana philosophy seem very well-suited to our times, especially through an emphasis on mappo and skillful means. how much of those ideas really came from the Buddha of the Pali Cannon, I have no idea. I do like this quote, from the last speach of the Buddha before his death:
I have preached the truth without making any distinction between exoteric and esoteric doctrine: for in respect of the truths, Ānanda, the Tathāgata has no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher, who keeps some things back.

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I remember visiting a monastery and spinning those wheels in primary school. But I was told off, as it turned out I was spinning the blessings backwards, not spreading them out into the world, but sucking them back into the letters engraved in the wheel. If you rewinded the prayer like this for long enough, who knows how much magical power you could gather in one spot, but at what cost to the rest of the world!