TurquoiseB wrote: > I'm a Buddhist > Which one? > who doesn't even believe that God exists. > You've mentioned this numerous times, as if it were a badge of honer, being an athiest, and using that to impress other respondents. But there is no evidence that the historical Buddha was an athiest. On the contrary, he apparently believed in all the gods.
That the Buddha was an athiest, as you define it, is but a false rumor that has been spread because Buddha and his desciples rejected the saving grace of the Vedas, rejected the caste system, and promulgated ahimsa, which upset the blood sacrifice livelihood of vested interests such as the Brahmin priests of his day. According to Gotama, belief in the Gods or God does not in any way alter the law of action and reaction, in which each individual gets exactly what is coming to him, based on his karma or past actions, so whether or not you believe in God or the gods is irrelevant to the topic of samadhi, according to the Buddha.
