Became a Buddhist

[zero1]

I've become a Buddhist. It's the truth, and Buddha is my hero.

That is all.

:cool:

[element]

I've become a Buddhist. It's the truth, and Buddha is my hero.

That is all.

:cool:

For choosing a religion, it's not that bad a choice.

[deliciously_fresh]

I've become a Buddhist. It's the truth, and Buddha is my hero.

That is all.

:cool:

Are you being serious? :confused:

[synergy777]

compassion to animals, nature, a pacifist religion. its all good bro, all the best.

[zero1]

compassion to animals, nature, a pacifist religion. its all good bro, all the best.

Thanks, Syn. :)

[zero1]

Are you being serious? :confused:

Surprised much? :D

[zero1]

For choosing a religion, it's not that bad a choice.

Religion, philosophy, call it what you will. It accords with my beliefs as established to the best of my own experience and my capacity for reason and intuition. It's a happy choice for me.

[deliciously_fresh]

Surprised much? :D

I don't really know your font, so I don't know what to expect from you. I was wondering if you were being sarcastic.

[catfood]

I have been a Buddhist for nearly a year now. I doesn’t require you to believe anything just to try it and find out for your self.
People should look in to the teachings not to be a Buddhist just for a bit of insight.

[zero1]

I don't take it all that seriously tho. Buddha said don't believe anything unless it agrees with your own reason and intuition, so I do that. I meditate too. It's very uncomplicated, which is why I like it.

[thelonious]

I have been a Buddhist for nearly a year now. I doesn’t require you to believe anything


Aren't Buddhists required to believe in the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path?

[zero1]

Aren't Buddhists required to believe in the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path?

Yeah, but really you can be a Christian or atheist and explore the wisdom of those.

Taking Refuge, embracing the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha is more personal.

[xpleet]

zero1 from your first post it rather seems to us like you have been programmed =/.


Why do we need Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc...what does it have to do with the truth? Is it really required?


I will never conform to anything here, and will stand for myself and my believe and to the light.

don't take it personally..

[element]

zero1 from your first post it rather seems to us like you have been programmed =/.


Why do we need Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc...what does it have to do with the truth? Is it really required?


I will never conform to anything here, and will stand for myself and my believe and to the light.

don't take it personally..

Religions do have elements all from the same source, but with a different culture, language, people and approach to it. If you follow a very traditional religion where you have to repent to a god figure, and where looking ''inside'' doesn't matter, I think that's brainwashing.
I'm not a know it all about buddhism but they do meditate, and look inside for ones higher self to my information. And as Synergy said, having respect to nature, animals and a pacifistic view is pretty nice. It are all things the major religions lack mostly.

[zero1]

zero1 from your first post it rather seems to us like you have been programmed =/.

Lol! Programmed? No. Given the chance to rewrite the OP, I would, as it seems to have conveyed the wrong message.

I guess the truth is I have assimilated Buddhism fully into my own personal belief system now, rather than become a Buddhist in the sense of religious conversion. Think of it as a metanoia, or change of mind. I did take Refuge, but I'm not part of a Buddhist community and know well the dangers of practicing these things outside the Eastern context and mind they were designed for.

Why do we need Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc...what does it have to do with the truth? Is it really required?

It depends what you see in the teachings available. You probably wouldn't say "why do we need David Icke to tell us about Infinite Love", would you? Even though we don't.

Look, I'm just going through a phase, I figure. I feel so left out of the world and all of the way it is with the toxic system and everything that I sometimes feel a great urge to try to see some truth in it that might not be there. My fault maybe, just the way I'm trying to survive this crazy shit life.

My friend, who puts up with my ramblings about religion, said "Why don't you just believe in yourself?". I know he's right. :)

I will never conform to anything here, and will stand for myself and my believe and to the light.

Yeah, regardless that's what it all boils down to, really. :cool:

Don't take it personally.

No, not @ all. Yours was a good post.

[catfood]

Aren't Buddhists required to believe in the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path?

Well I would say most Buddhist hold these things in high regard because of personal contemplation on them but a belief in them is not required.
There is a saying in Buddhism ‘big doubt big understanding small doubt small understanding’ what it is saying is if you just believe something without questing it you never really understand it.
Also there is no sin in Buddhism as there is no one making the rules we must judge what is skilful or unskilful for ourselves.

[thelonious]

Well I would say most Buddhist hold these things in high regard because of personal contemplation on them but a belief in them is not required.
There is a saying in Buddhism ‘big doubt big understanding small doubt small understanding’ what it is saying is if you just believe something without questing it you never really understand it.
Also there is no sin in Buddhism as there is no one making the rules we must judge what is skilful or unskilful for ourselves.

When I was younger, I studied and practiced Zen. Although I no longer consider myself a Buddhist, it still influences the way I look at things.

I think Buddhism contains a lot of truth, especially on its insistence upon universal compassion. The problem that I could never get around personally was the First Noble truth, which not only recognizes the existence of suffering, but puts forth a metaphysical dilemna in which life is essentially painful from the moment of birth until death. This is why I found Taoism a bit more attractive.

[xpleet]

Lol! Programmed? No. Given the chance to rewrite the OP, I would, as it seems to have conveyed the wrong message.

I guess the truth is I have assimilated Buddhism fully into my own personal belief system now, rather than become a Buddhist in the sense of religious conversion. Think of it as a metanoia, or change of mind. I did take Refuge, but I'm not part of a Buddhist community and know well the dangers of practicing these things outside the Eastern context and mind they were designed for.



It depends what you see in the teachings available. You probably wouldn't say "why do we need David Icke to tell us about Infinite Love", would you? Even though we don't.

Look, I'm just going through a phase, I figure. I feel so left out of the world and all of the way it is with the toxic system and everything that I sometimes feel a great urge to try to see some truth in it that might not be there. My fault maybe, just the way I'm trying to survive this crazy shit life.

My friend, who puts up with my ramblings about religion, said "Why don't you just believe in yourself?". I know he's right. :)



Yeah, regardless that's what it all boils down to, really. :cool:



No, not @ all. Yours was a good post.

whuuups,

I now see you meant to say "became a Buddhist..."that's" the truth

Certainly, when a Christian says "I became Christian because THE BIBLE is all truth" then the chance is high that he got programmed to think that way.


In all of the religions, in Buddhism I see the biggest amount of truth in.
Karma I know of being a system of total deception in the physical aswell in the astral and I absolutely fight it. It's great that Buddhism seeks to break out of it too.


with agreeing to so many things in Buddhism I'd really admit to that, but I would never confess and it's a bit sad that Buddhism developed into a religion too, meaning that like 90% of all truths on Earth is put into boxes [religion] to be mixed with untruth.

I know the basics of Buddhism equal rather a philosophy than a religion, but then again I see it being infiltrated by false teachings.

Confession in it's original term means,

that you accept teachings and all principals of a religion as truth and your own values. Therefore people who are not strict <x>-ists are not <x>-ists.

Many people like to join religions because they can then easier identify themselves with others who are thinking the same way. But they are running into a trap because they are then easier subject to the religion's programming. And every religion unfortunately is infiltrated by deceivers.

For me, religion means restrictment and even if I'd agree 90% to a specific one I'd still not call me an <x>ist and stand up for and only the truth.

And we all know there is only 1 truth, that is worth seeking for at any time. Don't fall into the boxes =/

[intruder]

I'm a mood-ist. they come, they go....

[intruder]

one mood isn't any better or worse than any other. there's no hiding in memory, and there's none to avoid.

[ichi wa zen]

There is a saying in Buddhism ‘big doubt big understanding small doubt small understanding’ what it is saying is if you just believe something without questing it you never really understand it.

Ha! Very true! Thats why we should never trust people who think or call themselves "enlightened"..........hahahhaha how foolish!

This koan by Bassui says the same:

What is this mind?
Who is hearing these sounds?
Do not mistake any state for
Self-realization, but continue
To ask yourself even more intensely,
What is it that hears?

PS i am not Buddhist nor Zen nor Bla, there exists no box to put me in, the box does not exist!

[pduffy4]

I though of becomming Buddist also. I went to the Glasgow Buddist Centre on Sauchiehall Street to do meditaion. I don't think Buddism is a rigid religion like christianity or others. It's all about being mellow and respecting others.

zero1 it won't do you any harm to do what you are doing so just enjoy it.:)

Peter

[synergy777]

http://www.dechen.org/

All beings have buddha nature.

Mind itself is the source of true joy, wisdom and compassion.

It is this discovery that constitutes enlightenment.

[raptor]

so by the sounds of it, you have converted a religion that lets you make your own choices right ? well why dont you just be an athiest ? i dont understand why i have to fall into any catagory whether its religious or not. i dont believe in any religion and its because of the religions existing that the term "athiest" even exists. i dont have to opt out of religion and be known as an athiest, i believe the scientific theory for our existance including evolution as it makes the most logical sense. i don't wish to force my opinions onto anyone and you have the right to believe what you like. sorry, i am not going to let shallow unfulfilled losers who are just one of many "sheep" on this planet who wont open their eyes and face facts convince me that there is something more to life than just existing and dying !

[element]

so by the sounds of it, you have converted a religion that lets you make your own choices right ? well why dont you just be an athiest ?
Give a definition of atheist before you use it please.

i dont understand why i have to fall into any catagory whether its religious or not. i dont believe in any religion and its because of the religions existing that the term "athiest" even exists. i dont have to opt out of religion and be known as an athiest, i believe the scientific theory for our existance including evolution as it makes the most logical sense.

Look at all the religions, see the partterns, they all hold truths to some extent. It's mainly symbols which have been taken literally to control the masses, but if you look ''underneath'' the symbols and try to find the true meaning, there's a lot of truth in it.


i don't wish to force my opinions onto anyone and you have the right to believe what you like. sorry, i am not going to let shallow unfulfilled losers who are just one of many "sheep" on this planet who wont open their eyes and face facts convince me that there is something more to life than just existing and dying !

Shallow? Your way of talking is shallow to be honest. You use your left brain to much, and the logical, rational, intelligence too much. If you want to understand the bigger picture, please rebalance your brain. Scientists are mostly correct about the physical world, I don't disagree with them here.
However, they lack understanding of the other side of the coin. Why? Because they are either trapped in left brain thinking and lower senses, ridicule everything which sounds ''weird'' , because their own ignorance and lack of spiritual understanding and self-experience.

Spirit you cannot proof in a world of matter. What would be the use, if people could understand who we in essence are, and just read it in a book and say ''ok next topic'' . No, you need to self experience and self-realize. That is your self proof.

What they lack, and what you should try too, is get some proper spiritual experiences, before you tell us to ''face facts''. If you would ever tried some astral projection or deep meditation you would understand who we are in essence. I didn't tried any deep meditation, but I do have exp. with astral projection and other ''phenomena'' , and higher vibrations.

Why I say this all? I think it's very important that ''fact addicts'' and people who lack understanding of spirit to find their way in it.

Don't ask other people how to get it, don't find truth in a book...find truth in your Self. Self experience the spiritual aspect..
you're a unique person, and your way is the true way for you...

[chris]

sorry, i am not going to let shallow unfulfilled losers who are just one of many "sheep" on this planet who wont open their eyes and face facts convince me that there is something more to life than just existing and dying !

Atheists are often just as dogmatic as devout religious fundamentalists. They often lack scientific rigour in favour of theories and detracting other unproven theories.

I like the idea of being agnostic, who simply don’t know. Some are happy to leave it as a mystery and some would like to delve deeper. Some agnostics might be inclined to the more modern theories and some might be edging more on the spiritual side. They are one group that manages to avoid being weighed down with belief.