--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "llundrub" <llundrub@> wrote:
> >
> > Buddhists don't beleive in God and yet they are happy.
> > They cannot therefore be controlled.
>
> That's actually a pretty insightful remark. Back
> in Buddha's time, the Hindu priests ruled (and
> profited, and controlled) mainly through super-
> stition. The rites and rituals that the rabble
> paid for were to *propitiate the gods*, to make
> them look benevolently on the person forking
> over the cash, and *not* look malevolently on
> them.
>
> Take away that fear of God or the gods, and as
> you say you no longer have a populace that can
> easily be controlled by saying, "If you don't
> do what we say Shiva will smite the shit out
> of you" or "If you don't pay for this yagya
> bad things will happen to you."
>
A fear of God, or to be afraid of God, is a very unevolved
perception of God. If that is the only way you and other Buddhists
can think of God, it doesn't speak well of Buddhism, at all. Keep
meditating in whatever form and you will see that God and love are
the same thing. Even Buddha knew that. Why don't you?
