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matthewmartin · Amateur Bodhisattva · Veteran
Testing 123. My blog is http://suburbandestiny.com
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Re: Shinnyo-en?
Guardedly optimistic. - It is a cult in the sense of a "new religion". From the sociologists stand point, the world cult is not a slur. But people seem to use it that way as if all new reli… (View Post)
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Re: Does Buddhism work? How do we know?
re: meditation is effective as a short nap (for stress reduction I suppose?) It's a big heterogeneous thing. A religion contains practices (from meditation to rituals, workout-like prostrations, and … (View Post)
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Re: Does Buddhism work? How do we know?
There is some research-- Buddhism is a big, heterogeneous thing. This feels a bit like the secular vs religious Buddhism thread. It might be more productive to narrowly pick out which practices you a… (View Post)
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Re: Secular Buddhism? Religious Buddhism? Why not both? Or neither?
Re: agnostic & the possible religious content thereof. I guess English has a lexical gap. It doesn't seem to be covered by the (a)gnostic/(a)theist word pairs either. The agnostic that *really* t… (View Post)1 -
Re: Secular Buddhism? Religious Buddhism? Why not both? Or neither?
Sorry, no time to read the responses in between, sorry if I repeat anything. And caveat -- you all can believe what ever you like, more power too you & you don't even have to call me a Buddhist i… (View Post)
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