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Re: Are atheistic Buddhists immoral?
(Quote) I think broad swaths of mankind get so very attached to one concept (whichever one it is for that culture) of "what is" that they become blinded to looking at things any other way. (View Post)
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Re: Are atheistic Buddhists immoral?
(Quote) There are other possibilities. As with Shiva, the creator and destroyer, God may create and end things, but not be involved in between. That's what I have come to believe. But we don't know, … (View Post)
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Re: Basic Goodness
(Quote) Well stated. You can't read or live by the Five Precepts and not think that Buddhism is -- at least in part -- about morality. And while much about Buddhism is within, it is also a moral syst… (View Post)
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Re: Basic Goodness
(Quote) ... (Quote) I don't know. This seems overly optimistic to me. If there is basic goodness in us, it seems to me the opposite must also be true -- that there is some basic badness in us, as wel… (View Post)
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Re: Is Buddhism just like the others?
(Quote) I think the difference for me -- particularly after a very recent very bad time in my life -- is that more than ever before I realized that God does nothing for you between your birth and you… (View Post)
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