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for people who like to be a little hard on themselves, and that's what made me pursue religious Buddhism to the extent I did. They're overall pretty nice and pleasant in the US, they often think of themselves as these little sages. What you say about relevant self-awareness is true, zen buddhism is like "watch out, the eye of the tiger looks at you, focus!", and most people leave the flock because monastic buddhism is an incredibly strict religion.

having studied the texts, the buddha was basically like the hindu version of jesus, he was basically just updating hindu ideology and tradition, criticizing wealthy people and hypocrites, condemning asceticism, appeasing lost children fallowing him, etc. The main tenants of hindu thinking are pretty true, were all connected by a cosmic thread, people torture themselves through attachment and desire, but i don't know about any of the rest of it. India has an enormous con-man guru problem.