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The vows can only be YOUR aspiration-- no one else's--and so no one can tell you when you are ready-- only you can make that decision. You shouldn't let anyone dictate to you when you should-- or sho… (View Post)
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)