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| Poster: Atlas Reply Post Message Date: Wed Jun 12 20:07:54 2002 |
| Subject: Buddhists' belief |
| Post No: 954 Reply to: 953 |
Buddhism is for everybody, from erudite persons to the illiterate mass. The main reason we should learn and apply Buddhism in our daily life is to lessen our sufferings, increasing our happiness by having a proper way of looking at things, considering events that are happening around us. Buddhism does not threaten anybody, but just give everybody a chance with numerous choices, to live a happy life with other happy people. "There is nothing special about predicting cause and effect after it already happened" - Oracle Yes! But Buddhism is more than that: Learning from what we have seen, heard, known, in order to improve our life, and deserve it. Not learning for learning, as it does waste our precious time. We have to apply what we have learned after choosing the ones which are suitable to improve the conditions of our life. "Trillions of atoms bounce off each other instantaneously. Are you going to explain to me the cause and effect of each interaction and how it was faith or cause and effect?" - Oracle Yes! If you read the Buddhit Bible, you will know this, 2,500 years, ago. And if you are a good chemist, you should also know about the cause and effect of such a wonderful mechanism. "Yes, Buddhist believes in re-birth" - Oracle Yes: It is like a chemical composition. Like the seed into the tree and back to the soil. "This reminded me of the Asian fortune telling. Categorizing billions of people into variations of 12 animals." - Oracle No: Buddhism does not believe in Chiromancie, Palmistry, Astrology... because the destiny is in our own hand like "Another Oracle" have mentioned clearly: "True, the chance that you might (not will) be smart if you study is high....If one doesn't possess goodness / skill / perseverance / energy, regardless how hard one tries to be smart or something else, one would never be." - Another Oracle And "Not all things happen by chance. They happen due to causes and effects. And, many of these causes and effects do not happen only in our lifetime but carried over from our past lives. This is one of the reason for buddhist teaching called reincarnation ("LUAN HOI, NHIEP")" - Another Oracle "To say I have rice to eat because I was nobility in the previous life is a bit far fetch." - Oracle It depends on the level of each person. Like schoolboys and girls at the primary schools might not believe what Students in the Universities told them. Nothing is new under the sun, and for Buddhism, it is not called MAGIC, but CAPACITY. Enlightenment--that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance--never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses. - Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano, "Landscapes of Wonder" |