On 4/21/2014 5:40 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
Millions of Buddhists feel the same way -- they believe in
reincarnation and don't believe in God.
>
You are incorrect. Traditionally Buddhists throughout the Buddhist world
consider that the universe contains more beings in it than are normally
visible to humans. Buddhists have no objection to the existence of the
Hindu Gods or Devas.
Nevertheless, Buddhists can't take refuge in the gods because the gods
are not Buddha. That is, they are not enlightened. All the Hindu gods,
for all their power, are not the final truth of things. Power does not
necessarily entail insight, and for Buddhists the gods do not have the
liberating insight. But, none of this entails that the gods do not exist
or that the gods cannot exert a powerful influence over our lives. Thus,
the Buddhist has no problem with the gods like you seem to have. Somehow
Barry seems to have don a 180 and got all mixed up. Go figure.
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