By Abdul Masih —
MissWeiWei left Buddhism because it didn’t make sense to her. There were rules and rituals without human connection. The purest form of Buddhism is to become a monk and lose all sense of this world, including family and fun.
“It didn’t feel like I was serving others or Buddha or God,” she says. “It just felt like a sense of routine and duty. It wasn’t fun. It felt really performative at times. And you have to kneel on your knees while praying.”
The Australian YouTuber became an atheist out of high school but came to Christ a few years later.
“Christianity tells you when to have fun and when not to have fun to protect you to protect you emotionally and spiritually,” she says. “It really like opened up my world. I understood so much and I felt so free and loved and seen and I felt like there was proper structure. That’s why Christianity made so much sense to me.”
When MissWeiWei (her online name) was a little girl, her parents divorced, and her mother moved with the children from China to Australia. Being very religious, Mom took the kids to Buddhist temples, required them to pray and give alms.
“The reason why the monks shave their hair is because hair symbolizes in China symbolizes something that your parents gave you,” MissWeiWei says. “The monks abandon their sense of self. They abandon the family. They are stripped away from the parents. They’re completely going to become an entity with Buddha, one with Buddha. So that’s a reason why monks shave their hair.”
By stripping self of human connections and desires, the person can meditate and become one with the divine, she says.
MissWeiWei said she left Buddhism after high school because it purports to deny and deprive your humanity. You can’t enjoy food or sex. In Christianity, sex can be enjoyed the way God made it, in marriage, she says. You can enjoy things in moderation, which is the way we are made she says.
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