pentium4 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Anyone who can recommend local buddhist temple? Quote Link to comment
ncbs Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 uhm for one Buddhism is not a Religion, even Buddha admitted that he is not God or a God. And there is this quote that I really love from Buddhism " Holding on to hate is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die". Based on that quote Buddhism is like a philosophy for self love, peace, and love for others Quote Link to comment
muad_dib Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 (edited) Religion requires the worship of a God figure "or else"...Buddhism is a philosophical belief...focused on practices that leads to harmony between yourself and the natural seen or unseen world...no need to worship the Buddha as some deity...he's more of an exemplar...and their allusion to suffering (or their ideal of hell) is simply explained as a failure to perfect our own being...thus reincarnation (to suffer the consequences of our flaws until we get it right)...until one attains the balance of full enlightenment...thus Buddha-hood...never met any other religion that promises you can or will become The God you were venerating...If we believe in Catholic or Christian canon that we were made in the image of God...then would it not stand to reason that our ultimate fulfillment and perfection is to attain that same God-hood...or at least that must have been the main hypothesis of The Experiment of Creation...can there be another who is a part of Me and a Continuation of Me as God Eternal... Be be not naive that Buddhism was always some peaceful philosophy...remember it was about balance...there were periods that Buddhism in its many forms also actually had to be as violent as needed to survive or to preserve the balance... Your Thoughts??? Edited October 10, 2020 by muad_dib Quote Link to comment
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