on 5/21/05 3:10 AM, claudiouk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I like the Buddhist way of life and the walk the talk approach and > other things you mention. But I never could make sense of their idea > of no God or no Self. Belief in Karma, a moral order that has no > empirical evidence, implies some God-like principles of fairness and > evolution of consciousness - cosmic "purposefulness", not just blind > mechanics. An Occam's razor approach would dispense with such > elaborations. Also I can't understand their distinction between > reincarnation and rebirth in the light of the no-self doctrine. > Paradoxically Buddha or Buddha Nature has become deified itself and > Buddhist use devotion as "skillful means". Consequently I'm attracted > to Buddhism as a way of life but to the Gita as my guiding > philosophy. But perhaps you can disentagle my confusion?
Maybe they're just fixating on the level of life at which there is no God and no Self. Everything is true on some level. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
