[Morpheus]

Originally Posted by amy green

I like this image a lot!
OK so buddhists don't believe in god, but they believe in goodness and cultivating the god within....
are we going to split twigs on this?

St. Paul quoted a Greek pagan poet to the Greek audience he was speaking to.
Concerning their tribute to, "The Unknown God", which he had seen in their city.
Quoting...
"In Him we live, and move, and have our being."

People are caught up with Labels. God is not.

Concerning Buddha...
"He refers to God as being the known, but unknowable, and that even an attempt to label the name God is insufficient to define the Absolute.

Below is Buddha’s description of the Absolute, in the Udana passage of the Kuddaka Nikaya:30

“There is, O monks, an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed.

Were there not, O monks, this Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed, there would be no escape from the world of the born, originated, created, formed.
Since, O monks, there is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed, therefore is there an escape from that born, originated, created, formed.

What is dependent, that also moves;
what is independent does not move.

Where there is no movement, there is rest;
where rest is, there is no desire;
where there is no desire, there is neither coming nor going; no ceasing-to-be; no further coming-to-be.

Where there is no ceasing-to-be, no further coming-to-be, there is neither this shore (this world) nor the other shore (Nibbana31), nor anything between them.
32 Udana 8:3"

(Cf. translation in Minor Anthologies, pg. 98.)

Club O - Buddha and God

The latter paragraph refer's to the situation of "Maya" in which we find ourselves. The transient and illusory nature of the material world reality, and life.