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Re: Secular Buddhism? Religious Buddhism? Why not both? Or neither?
(Quote) Well, I think it's an interesting topic for debate. I don't have an answer, I've only noted the same contradictory points in his writing that you have. But to get back to Spiny Norman's post … (View Post)
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Re: Life is absurd, stop trying to find a meaning
Sorry, OP; I can't live a meaningless life. No can do. But cancer doesn't have meaning. Cancer just is. You could say it's the ripening of past karma. Or you could say the person had to leave this wo… (View Post)
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Re: Secular Buddhism? Religious Buddhism? Why not both? Or neither?
(Quote) Not in my Buddhism. It depends on which school of Buddhism, or if you're 'homeschooled', so to speak (studying on one's own). The only thing close to make-believe I've come across in the sutr… (View Post)
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Re: Secular Buddhism? Religious Buddhism? Why not both? Or neither?
(Quote) Definitely a religious belief, and not a Buddhist one. Believing in a God always seemed like adult belief in Santa Claus, when I was a kid. He knows when you've been naughty or nice, and mete… (View Post)1 -
Re: What is a Bodhisattva?
(Quote) What's happening to the economy of our own non-welfare state? (View Post)
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