I'd just like to thank the various people who responded to my posting. Trouble is it's even more complicated than I thought! I need to digest more what people have been saying, after I can make sense of it. So far the mystery still remains for me.
original post: 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? 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/
