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"Louis, it is not that believers don't really want THE TRUTH even if they had access to clear, hard-edged TRUTH. I think many would reject any variation from their religious conditioning and cling to their habitual viewpoint out of fear that they would be traiterous to their ingrained beliefs &...

www.buddhanet.net along with this site is pretty good

if you were to do that the I-Ching would have to have its own section to serve it justice and the yellow emperor wasnt mythological, infact the only "mythological" emperor i know of was fu hsi, after him the first known historical was king tang amitabha

"So when a Buddhist bows before a statue of Buddha, there is no claim made that the Buddhist is worshipping an object, but as with the theistic traditions, is simply using the statue (or other object) as a point of focus for a process of worship. Which confuses myself. Isn't it said that we are...

buddhist prostrate before buddhist figures because they have chosen buddhism as their spiritual refuge personally a buddhist could bow before christ, krishna, chuang tzu or whomever..the act itself and the thought behind it are what matters the most, the respect given anyway, something of...

"Zazen also touched on the concept of karma in the Buddhist tradition and how it relates to merit and so forth. as Buddhists believe in karma we strive, in our daily practice, to have more positive causes and conditions than negative ones. one of the ways in which we do this is by generating...

point virtuous, buddhist will prostrate before the buddha out of respect. respect being a simple way of putting karma into action. karma is a big aspect in eastern religion, therefore the good karma that we receive by prostrateing ourselves before a bodhisattva or the buddha will reflect upon...

i think the bottom line is, that with most religioins, 1 thing is stressed over many, which is simply to do good, is this because good is considered the positive or "right" thing, or is it because doing "good" will have a positive feedback on yourself, for example with karma, good inturn creates...

i second that, people can and should be able to tolerate more, as human beings being that, most of the time its just human nature were talking about condoneing anyhow amitabha

hear no evil, see no evil.. "So what is spirit versus energy then, if in fact they're not one and the same? Could it be that spirit is a more subtle form of energy or, does it transcend the realm of energy entirely? It would seem to me that if energy was not immaterial and spirit was, then is...

hmm maitreya? amitabha

gong fu Tang dynasty, China..henan province, shaolin temple amitabha

well? well, wouldnt it make more sense to say that..doing a good deed is relative to doing a bad one? by that i mean, good and bad are only aspects of our mundane reality, the problem then..is that god is above us(transcendental), so to understand god better do we cultivate good alone...

buddhism in buddhism, the most important aspect of practice is to practice, its always been emphasised that direct experience should be encouraged over blind faith therefore, it all comes down to practice and practicing buddhism..like all things mundane, must change over the course of history...

its simple forget everything you know about buddhism, and remember only 1 thing the budha said avoid evil do good purify the mind amitabha

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questions? # 2 amitabha

so? the simple fact of the matter is most of us just wouldnt believe anyhow, we could go back in time and i bet, 9 out of 10 of you who would meet the christ wouldnt have enough faith in him to humble yourselves as much as you think you would its no surprise that jesus had to go through so...

magic? "after 20+ years studying occult topics" was it worth it? did you ever learn anything concrete? amitabha

a story! a friend of mine told me this story about a Quija board experience he had, i barely remember how we started talking about it but the original topic was kabbahlism.. Well, a few years back me and a few friends decided to try it out. So we bought a board, decided to have fun with it...