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Was The Buddha a Scientologist?
This is the question people new to Buddhism often don't ask, "Was the Buddha a Scientologist?"
I think I am one of those people who think that he certainly was not a Scientologist, though I am open to serious evidence to the contrary.
I think most people make this mistake, of thinking that Buddha was a Scientologist, because Battle Field Earth is actually longer than the Pali Cannon.
salome
Mat
I think I am one of those people who think that he certainly was not a Scientologist, though I am open to serious evidence to the contrary.
I think most people make this mistake, of thinking that Buddha was a Scientologist, because Battle Field Earth is actually longer than the Pali Cannon.
salome
Mat
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Doesn't scientologists believe all negative emotions are souls of angry aliens, who died while being incarcerated on earth, inhabiting our body?
What does this have to do with Buddhism?
Oh get a grip. Its clearly meant to be funny and light hearted.
Meh... getoveryourself:(
Dukkamaker:(
Guilty of that one as well :rolleyes:
I think he was a Methodist actually.
I cannot think of any similarity between Buddhism and Scientology, except both claim to make you happier. But then using the right razor is supposed to do that to (or eating the right breakfast cereal ...)
Then suddenly we had a religion created by a science fiction author in the 60's that people believed in even knowing it was created by a science fiction author in the 60's. My mind exploded and I just gave up.
Thank goodness I found Buddhism, or I might have found insanity.
There are a number of things about Scientology that doesn't make sense . . . to me.
That is not to say that it doesn't make sense to someone else, or that it's wrong. I don't think it's fair to discard a religion just because of the individual that 'found' it. Perhaps L. Ron Hubbard's insights into the beliefs of Scientology inspired his fictional works . . . or perhaps they arn't fictional at all (I've never read any of his works), but to assume or imply that his fictional writings inspired 'his religion,' or to imply that 'his religion' is another piece of fictional work simply is a step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. (I'm not implying you were making similar assumptions Stephen, just thoughts that crossed my mind as I read your post).
It's not my place to judge others, I just hope they find what works for them
You held onto some contraption which (supposedly) measured skin conductivity and therefore indicated if you were reacting emotionally while you were talking about these things.
At some point, thousands of dollars later and when you no longer registered an emotional reaction to talking about your past, you would be "Clear" and have no more emotional baggage. A Clear was indeed a special person ... certainly, at least, a financially-poor person.
Well, it should be noted that the majority (if not all) of the payments made to the Church of Scientology count as a charitable contribution as a result of a settlement agreement after litigation (at least, it was in the 70's, I'm assuming it's the same).
Other than that, if you take out the 'contraption' it sounds alot like therapy, which arguably does work. So who knows if it works on a spiritual level? It seems to work for confessional in the catholic church.
I just think it's very easy to look on the outside and claim something as dumb. As a matter of fact, I"m sure members of the Church of Scientology say the same thing about Buddhism.
I don't care what religion you have, as long as you keep it to yourself, and it works for you. If it makes you happy, that makes me happy, regardless of if I follow the religion or not.
But, other than relating it to Buddhism, or discussing the acceptance of other's beliefs, I don't really see the need to criticize the Church on a Buddhist site. After all, you won't be getting the other side of the story anyway. It becomes more of a religion bash than it does a discussion.
Not really. Ron L. Hubbard claimed to be Maitreya. If that's the case we are "brothers" to the Church of Scientology. x-D
As if someone like old shoot-em action movie star could be recognised as a Tulku. What was I thinking of! LOL
"I'm not going crazy, I'm going sane in a crazy world!" - The Tick