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If caz is referring to what the Buddha taught perhaps he should have backed it up with references. If I have understood him correctly he is asserting that mind exists prior to form, creates form. My understanding is that this view has been soundly refuted by the likes of Nagarjuna and Shantideva. I am suggesting that not all Buddhists hold his view on this. Caz went on to assert that there are beings living in God realms. Could be true. Taiyaki said he takes these realms to be human attainments. Deep meditative states. Jason has stated that he views these type of stories as metaphorical. What the Buddha taught is open to a range of interpretations. That's why I said that caz should have stopped short of asserting his own beliefs in a discussion in which he was refuting the beliefs of other Buddhists.
The point was that all Buddhist traditions reject a creator God as God is the topic of the thread. Is there a tradition of Buddhism that does not? I don't know of any. Whether or not "mind is creator" is not about the topic of God so I did not think it was part of the discussion. Seems off topic.
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What I am getting at is that anything experiential is in fact God or the Unborn Buddha Mind.
So the sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, thoughts, colors. These are all sacred!
Yes but you came up with answer for my question, which was acceptable to me in five minutes.