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Humans are at least 60% water. It's amazing what water can do when you add a few other ingredients to it.

Love = Compassion

Well, the OP asked for just one word. But usually I offer at least a few more. :p

You've been reaping the results of karma for 69 years. All I'm asking is that you become conscious of that. That ain't so hard.

I see karma as inertia and direction. The karma that you've created in this life was a result of the inertia and direction set forth from your past lives. Personality doesn't pass from one life to the next because personality is intimately tied to both your physical body (brain, hormones) and...

I would think a child living a tormented life would be the best candidate to tell of "God's" love. It might help alleviate their torment. Of course, I'd prefer that you also tell them about the Buddha's Four Nobel Truths about suffering and the Eightfold Path. These teachings will help them...

You can throw in an extra twist by considering that the karma that carried into this life determined the parents you'd be born to.

Borrowing from a Buddhist chant... A formless field of benefaction

That's okay. All you need to do is become perfectly enlightened. Don't worry... you'll know it when it happens. Until then, keep trying. :D

It seems to me that this is the problem with any religion. They start with an individual's revelation that then becomes institutionalized. The key for any single follower is to focus on the revelation that inspired the religion and not the institution that followed.

I don't know about that. Why not be born into a being of similar karma on another planet? I don't see any reason we have to be bound to the Earth.

Thanks for clarifying. I didn't realize that reincarnation implied a soul. :o

They mean the same thing. Why does that discredit Buddhism? Why would it have to be suited to human existence? As I stated in the other similar thread, this is about awareness... not about humanity. What ever being is aware and "born" would be suitable for rebirth.

It might help to think of awareness that exists "outside" (but not outside) the body. This awareness finds expression (at least one way) through life. When I die, this awareness persists and it will find another way to express itself, hence rebirth. While we understand that living beings are...

Would you call electricity or gravity a God? Buddhists see "God" as a "formless field of benefaction" not as a person or a being or a creator. You don't pray to it... you are already "it". Meditation merely reveals a nature that's always existed. That is why Buddhism can be described as...

I think it is. I think we're tapping into the same source and interpreting it different ways.

My apologies for having omitted in both my brain and my post the opening to that line. It does significantly change the meaning of your statement. Would a God condemn me to 1,000 lashes with a wet noodle? That is indeed a perplexing question.

Buddhists (I) think suffering is the common condition in humans, driven by ignorance and ego. While it is unnecessary, it is very difficult to avoid. And I wouldn't call suffering "evil". That's giving it too much credit.

Too true. That's why religious experiences are so transformative. Peace!

I was thinking more ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ;)