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Buddhism isn't a scholary practice. It's directness by which insight reveals the true nature by which we experience and live as living beings. ;0) The commentary from Trycicle was, as I see it, referencing Buddhist cosmology by which the dieitfication of gods, demons, and ghosts including...

What Buddhism are you referring to?

That's a very misguided blog.

The excerpt provided by Tom dosent reference God in any capicity. Oftentimes theistic views on God tend to be colloquially used terms during conversations and debates. There is no deity in Buddhism, yet theism isn't discouraged either in cases involving a practitioner's personal view, but...

I would say the issue of God and belief is a moot point that's best acknowledged and let go. It's really a matter of strong ego and attachment that is being contended with.

Many people started Buddhist practices with a belief in God. I was one of them, so your correct that a Buddhist can believe in God for which that belief can be held onto or dropped, depending on the persons disposition and effectiveness of the particular form of Buddhism that was chosen.

God, as such relates with Buddhism, remains empty of any inherant existence by which there is no permanent abiding form found in Buddhism, which comparatively with Cristianity's definition, is vastly contrasted. There remains no recognition in any theistic sense, and the usage of the term is...

Old thread but very good question. Personally I approach the issue as during Zazen practice. I acknowledge, and then let it go. I like to joke that God visits me sometimes, but he's never actually around.

Karma is just cause and effect. Maybe a little chaos theory thrown in for seasoning. ;0)

Time flies.

Ha ha ha!! I'll have to update that. I love the Japanese. Maybe someday I'll meander over if I can just make it to retirement. I would love to tour the Soto and Rinzai temples there.

Its a very natural thing to be demonstrative of loving kindness and compassion. Something that can be focused upon between Christianity and Buddhism when noting the similarities both religions share, and that of people in general as well.

Ah, my good friend Aupmanyav! I think somebody had spilled coffee on the server over there at RF. :0]

Appreciate the welcome!

Thanks Thomas!

It was a return to the basics before any religious introduction came about and for me, what better way than to just allow life and living with all that it entails naturally provide the teaching necessary without entertaining particular views that might not reflect the actuality of what's...

Legitimate questions. The only thing I don't like about It is having too short a lifespan for which even if any answers came about, it would perpetually evade us upon death, and arguably lost.

It would be interesting as to what prompted the postulation that consciousness dosent somehow require a living organism. I see consciousness as an emergent reactive property brought about by combined organic matter, by which in turn consciousness in a simpler sense can be consequently...

Thanks much for the welcome. :)

A good way to settle the distinctions I think concerning duality is using the experience by which you sit in meditation. When sitting lotus on the zafu, the distinction concerning legs for walking for instance is not applicable, as the distinction of the left and right leg now switched...