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Belief and faith aren't necessarily synonymous. Being intimately involved in Christian fundamentalism many years ago, I can say I had many beliefs to which I clung-- but faith means you don't need to… (View Post)
@futurenets - Here is what we typically think: there is this, and there is that. This is emptiness: this arises because of that, that arises because of this. Let's say you hear the sound of a windchi… (View Post)
To a certain degree, I was drawn to Buddhism before I really knew much about it. Buddhists I've spoken to often came to Buddhism the same way, rather than deliberately seeking it out. But what Buddhi… (View Post)
(Quote) But you know, maybe it really isn't a silly initiation. Look at the parable of the children in the burning house (in the Lotus Sutra), how the father had to entice the children out of the hou… (View Post)