buddhism

Hi everyone, my second post here. I would like to open a new discussion, this time, as there are not many skeptical discussions debunking Buddhism, I would like to talk about it: 1- Buddhism has an idealistic psychology too. In which you blame the suffering of the person in the present for...

Brain dead Sri Lanka, arrests and jails a woman for having a Buddha tattoo on her upper arm. What happened to a modern world moving forward? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27138254

I've been keeping abreast of the clashes in Myanmar between Muslims and Buddhist, and I have to say I'm a little surprised to hear about Buddhists behaving so violently, though that may just be the fact that I don't know very much about it. Christianity and Islam have a sort of violent streak...

Hey, guys. I haven't been on here in a while, and I was wondering if some of you who are familiar with Buddhism can help me. I have a friend who recently converted into what he calls Buddhism. I say "what he calls" because he has a nasty habit of cherry-picking only the things that he actually...

Understanding yourself and help others. What do you think about zen?

"The Word"/Reason/Wisdom, not "Jesus" in the usual sense, is The Way to Salvation/God the real lovers of God do not belong to any particular religion, for all the religions have the same fundamental teachings on the nature of God & how one becomes like God in respect to wisdom, love, joy, etc...

Some Masters in Buddhism can change the real world arbitrarily; such as press handprint or footprint on a rock,or tie the tree in knots. I know Uri Geller can bends forks;but I don't think that trees bending is just a magic. Because it's too hard to prepare a knotted tree in...

In Buddhism,some senior monks,when cremating,rainbow and thunder will appear in sky;and after cremation they will leave all kinds of sariras.Some sariras are like gems,they are very strong that can not be smashed with a hammer; some have word or a statue above.And a kind of sarira is body...

I'm familiar only with very basic concepts about Buddhism (VERY basic). But I do see it referenced quite a bit, directly, throughout this forum. Is there a draw to Buddhism for the atheist, non-believer, etc ? If so, specifically why? What is it about Buddhism that speaks to you (regardless of...

Well, I won't elaborate much... I quite honestly like the guy, although his connection with the new-age movement is undeniable. Still, I LOVE to listen to the man talking, he makes lots of sense to me and his voice is quite smooth and relaxing. And he was, for the sake of being fair, an...

This is the headline on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald's website: 'Buddha: He spent months sitting in jungle without food or water.' The linked photo is captioned 'The reincarnation of Buddha ... Ram Bahadur Bamjan'. Apparently some Nepalese buddhists are convinced that Ram...

I've read of this interesting development in two different newspaper articles. They basically stated that people of Indian descent, many of which are Buddhists, are "taking the lead" by making the highest grades and getting the most administrative positions in the States, and also that there was...

Forgive me, but I am very ignorant of buddhist philosophy. I was alerted to a NY Times article today of a buddhist couple living in my great state of Arizona that never stray more than 15 feet apart (5 m give or take) from each other. Here is the article Making Their Own Limits in a Spiritual...

According to this news item: Dalai Lama urges respect The Dalai Lama believes that respect for other religions trumps proselytizing. There is no need to convert from one religion to another; "all different traditions have (the) same potential to bring inner peace, inner value, and therefore...

OK...after smashing my head repeatedly against my keyboard while devoting just under two weeks to reading and trying to understand a thread here in R&P ( the Subjectivity and Science one ) I've decided that it's time to come to grips with, and try to develop a basic understanding of Buddhism...

Hi all, I recently released a free book about buddhism and was hoping someone here could give me their take on it. I know it is a huge ask to get someone to read a book :P It is only 50 pages, more like a booklet. So if there are any skeptics here interested in buddhism i would be happy to...

Ancient Dragon Zen Gate First, I made a fool of myself by wearing my shoes :p . Then I went and did the intro to meditation meeting. Basically, they explained proper protocol for bowing and sitting. The only instructions for meditation was to count the exhales from one to ten. Then we took...

First, I must confess that I am really disgusted, often if not all the time, with writings by Buddhists about Buddhist ideas, because their way of writing appears to me to be beyond our power for grabbing anything, owing to their diarrheaic outflow of words as to be extremely slippery in what...

There is a philosophical precept in Buddhism based on the “interrelationship of all things”, kinda like the idea of “the universe in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour”, although I am pretty sure this is a lower-level understanding of the principle. To me it seems like the point is that...

Here is my first contribution: Wholesome (as opposed to unwholesome) means in the ultimate analysis an act that will bring you to enlightenment and hence to nirvana, in the meantime you are by that act supposed to contribute to your liberation from suffering. I am working next on these terms...

Why do you need to think about philosophy so much? The answers are given by HH the Dalai Lama!

FWBO -- abbreviation for Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. . Well, I have been reading about this Buddhist group and movement that is organized and regimentalized, to find out what it teaches about the end destiny of man in Buddhism; so far I can't make out anything about the end destiny of...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2194682.ece And in other news, The Times doesn't seem to understand the meaning of the word 'atheist'.

Ok, let's put this to the test. I have been having a fairly lengthy discussion in SMMT, which ought to be in here. The main problem is this phrase: ALL RELIGION IS BAD. Nice, black and white comment. Not, "most religions are bad" or "some religions are bad", but ALL. I have covered the...

From the Wikipedia (accessed on July 9, 2007 Monday, 0635hrs.) We are aware of ancient writings on poisons and on foods, so it is no trouble finding out what the authors are telling us to be critically important and what not but are just literature. Tell me, Elohim, do you know of any...

Or so says the scientists. Now, here is when it gets interesting. Normally when a person says that believing in a Christian God makes them happier, the proper response would be that that has nothing to do with whether the belief is true or not. However, the Buddha taught only suffering and...

Addressing Buddhists here and anywhere else: as I said in an earlier post in this Community board: . . Please come forward and tell me how Buddhism has changed you for the better in any way you want to understand better. I remember a Buddhist here who said in a thread of mine on Buddhism and...

I am inviting serious Buddhist scholars/thinkers and also any scholarly thinking people here to help me pin down what is anatta in Buddhism. What I know from reading about Buddhism is that anatta is what in English one would call non-self; so that if Yrreg is a self and he dies, then he is a...

[Pre-disclaimer: This is a purely academic exercise for mental pastime, no negative emotion is directed toward any worldview or anyone embracing any worldview.] I was searching the web for modern psychological counseling vis a vis Buddhist psychological counseling, and I came upon this most...

On the eSangha forum, someone anonymously sent me a link to this site: http://thebuddhawaswrong.com/ The majority of Buddhists are just as superstitious as other religions. They believe in flying monks, that there's literally six dimensions where we're reborn into after we die, that there...