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My Buddhism
Sorry I have not been around here for a while. Marching Band is finally over now!:bigclap: Anyway, I don't have any particular intrest in associating myself with one specific sect in Buddhism. I have taken my own philosophy and added some Buddhist stuff in it too.
- There are no absolutes, however in society, it may be deemed necessary for certain laws and rules to be enacted to insure the welfare of the people and the state
-No need for personal deities or afterlives
-Bad things can happen to very good people
-Suffering is part of the life of all creatures
-Violence may be permitted in circumstances such as self-defense
-All actions do have consequences (both negative and positive)
-Love is a word...Nothing more...What is important is the meaning it implies.
-Veangeance, often times seen as the same as justice, only prolongs suffering and is only for self-gratification.
-Just because I see that one path is easier than the next, this does not mean that I will take the easier path.
-A man may spend his whole life locked away in search of happiness and never find it, where as another may give just one penny as an offering to the poor and attain the gladness of several lifetimes.
This is just a loose 'creed' of mine. A jumbled bunch of ideas. Does it fit in at all with the Buddha's teachings!?
- There are no absolutes, however in society, it may be deemed necessary for certain laws and rules to be enacted to insure the welfare of the people and the state
-No need for personal deities or afterlives
-Bad things can happen to very good people
-Suffering is part of the life of all creatures
-Violence may be permitted in circumstances such as self-defense
-All actions do have consequences (both negative and positive)
-Love is a word...Nothing more...What is important is the meaning it implies.
-Veangeance, often times seen as the same as justice, only prolongs suffering and is only for self-gratification.
-Just because I see that one path is easier than the next, this does not mean that I will take the easier path.
-A man may spend his whole life locked away in search of happiness and never find it, where as another may give just one penny as an offering to the poor and attain the gladness of several lifetimes.
This is just a loose 'creed' of mine. A jumbled bunch of ideas. Does it fit in at all with the Buddha's teachings!?
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If you can manage to live your life along the lines of what your few and pithy words say here, you are not doing too badly at all, Knight! :thumbsup:
I hope it does, because I agree with you 100%.
It certainly doesn't disagree, though it's helpful to bear in mind that Buddhism isn't a set of beliefs. Buddhism teaches us to let go of such ideas and see things directly. Learning to respond appropriately is not a matter of holding particular beliefs but of seeing things as they are, unfiltered by ideas of how we or the world should be.
What does your little saying mean? "Rev. Genryu"?
-bf
I didn't think that it stood for:
Reverse Genryu or
Revert Genryu or
Revere Genryu or
Revenant Genryu or
Reveal Genryu (you get the point)...
I was hoping you would expound on you being a Reverend of what and where?
-bf