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03-05-2018, 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Rod288
All roads lead to Rome, as they say. Every religion is relevant and every religion has truth embedded in it.
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(Add "and nonsense" after the word 'truth')
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06-06-2018, 03:51 PM
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The Truth just is.
God is Truth.
"The majority of people are captured the Matrix of nature, immersed in a sea of materiality. We must pray they be reborn..."
Abdul Baha
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Eternity does not start with death.
We are in eternity now." - Norman Vincent Peale
"There is no place in this new kind of physics for both the field and matter, for the field is the only reality." - A. Einstein
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07-06-2018, 01:36 AM
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I believe that essentially, all three are exactly the same and it is only word-play semantics which differentiates them.
Suffice to say, I believe in a Hindu Soul. lol
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12-06-2018, 05:41 AM
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They’re similar. People just have trouble understanding what a Buddhist “No Self” means and think it’s contradictory to the others.
No self does not literally mean you have no personality — it talks about having no self, which is completely different.
Think of how a house may have different rooms, but you still call it one house. Just like we see ourselves as different people, but we’re all just one universe. The all, and that’s no self. There are different “rooms” of personality and preferences, but we’re still one and the same. Souls are artificial categories of difference, but if you’d like to separate these into specfic words to communicate well, that still works.
In the same way that if you look at the Earth from space, there’s no dividing line between different countries like they do in maps. But these maps still help us make sense of artificial human ideas, and it’s alright to use it as long as we’re conscious that these separations don’t have to be.
We’re still connected after all, and these lines in maps don’t have to make us forget that even if we’re from different countries, we’re all still human beings. And we’re all one.
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07-10-2018, 11:05 AM
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I believe in Buddhist Self (not No Self)
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It's hard to pick which ones they eat the most" - Marilyn Manson
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08-10-2018, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by sky123
In Buddhism you are encouraged to find your own path, Buddha himself said to use his teaching as a raft ( Raft Parable ). If you believe in a higher self then thats ok because that is your path
When you start studying the Buddhas teachings you do start to see him as a Psychologist.
If you are interested, Google ' Dalai Lama Mind and Life Institution' there are lots of Video discussions between Buddhist's/Dalai Lama and Scientist, very interesting.
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But a study of anatta would show meanings of not-self as well as no-self in different contexts...
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08-10-2018, 12:13 PM
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I believe in Buddhist Self (not No Self)
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Interesting. Can you explain what the Buddhist Self is?
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08-10-2018, 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Rod288
All roads lead to Rome, as they say. Every religion is relevant and every religion has truth embedded in it.
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Originally Posted by Gem
(Add "and nonsense" after the word 'truth')
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I am very much seeing this, though I would change every religion to most religions. It's quite wonderful to be agreeing with one religion/philosophy, and a while later to find a different aspect of 'truth' in a completely different one.
At the same time there can be much nonsense in all religions/philosophies, because they were created by human beings who still have limited understanding of ultimate reality.
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09-10-2018, 12:29 AM
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Interesting. Can you explain what the Buddhist Self is?
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Selfish Buddhism is a chaotic form of Buddhism, as opposed to the peaceful path of Selfless Buddhism. A major tenet of Selfish Buddhism is the cultivation of conflict and unrest, not in a negative way, but in order to force one's whims onto society for the purpose of getting people to think of how their own actions affect others, which is something most people are not aware of, or only dimly aware of. If words like "conflict" and "unrest" make you uneasy, you should probably give more thought to how your actions affect others.
For an example of a fictional character who practices Selfish Buddhism, think of Tony Montana
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09-10-2018, 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Ahriman
Selfish Buddhism is a chaotic form of Buddhism, as opposed to the peaceful path of Selfless Buddhism. A major tenet of Selfish Buddhism is the cultivation of conflict and unrest, not in a negative way, but in order to force one's whims onto society for the purpose of getting people to think of how their own actions affect others, which is something most people are not aware of, or only dimly aware of. If words like "conflict" and "unrest" make you uneasy, you should probably give more thought to how your actions affect others.
For an example of a fictional character who practices Selfish Buddhism, think of Tony Montana
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Scar Face. Hehehe, this gets more interesting by the moment.
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