Justin's post and the Deepak offering are simple restructuring of religious/philosophical thought. Buddhism, the maya etc. are different frameworks for the disciplines and doctrines of belief. Regardless of their existence the world continues to suffer and summarizing that suffering into a cause and effect aspect simply exchanges one belief for another. The probability that any belief is the ultimate truth is equal to any other belief. Buddha was a teacher, so was Jesus and many others in history, including the contemporary evangelists that keep springing up. I'm not saying it is a bad thing for people to have a road map to essentially guide them along to, say, Utopia. I just don't see that any belief is any more valid that any other belief, including my own. Devas or Angels, the Devil or the Great Brahma, levels and planes or parallel universes, the vedas or any Scriptural text, it's all the same, "stories" to explain the unknown that remains unknown. If we can all bypass the inquiry into the why and purpose and stop subjecting ourselves to needless anguish over dogmas, focus on a collective mindset of being happy, it would be a much better world. Most problems stem from unhappiness.
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