Comments on: Buddhism is of the Devil

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By: Jeremy Hoover

Jeremy Hoover — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:28:54 +0000

Anonymous,

I laughed when I read “Christianity is a waste of time.” I’m sorry we Christians present it to you as such. And I can see why you’d say this.

From my perspective, true Christianity–which is a spirituality based in and around Jesus–is exactly what you claim for Buddhism–morality, pure loving-compassion, and selfless motivations.

It’s corruption, greed, and seflishness, all done in the name of Christianity that wrecks its image. But Jesus represents all those things that you pointed to in Buddhism.

I encourage you to give Jesus, not necessarily the/a church, a second look.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:13:45 +0000

nathan,

great story. Christianity is not a waste of time. Jesus is the only way…

We also need to stop pointing to ourselves or other 'great' christians of the past. Forget St. Paul, or Augustine, or Lewis or the Pope ,, it's all about Jesus.

If we point people to Jesus, they won't be disapopinted.

Don't be like me, or my neighbor – be like Jesus.

Don't go to my church because of X,,, go to my church because Jesus is there…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:04:00 +0000

From a Buddhist perspective, Christianity is a waste of time. Buddhism properly done(eventually) leads to a life of unblemished morality, pure loving-compassion and selfless motivations. And respect for other people, be they Buddhists or not. If you had experienced Buddhism I doubt very much whether you would be calling it Satanic.Yours,a devil-worshipper

By: sampuna@yahoo.com

sampuna@yahoo.com — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:24:00 +0000

well, well my friend.Please check out the REAL STUFFSthat's Buddhism before making a fool out of yourself.You'r thumping on something which you don't even know!That temple sounds like a Shinto temple.A TRUE BUDDHIST temple will hv none of those rituals.Afterall,Mr Gautama had the duty to tell us the way to be free from suffering, going towards Nibbana.So,that being the case, he told all those who are interested to purify their hearts, meditate, look within.That's Buddhism! What has all those rituals to do with peace huh?Just have a chat with Thich Nhat Hanh,you'll get a very clear picture of Buddhism.Peace!

By: pegwole

pegwole — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:28:00 +0000

I have but one thing to say for all of this silly arguing, remember the golden rule, treat others as you would have them treat you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:36:00 +0000

There is much intolerance shown in this 'report' and all it reveals is another threatened ego. That is all. People with belief systems and especially ones of a theistic nature always feel vulnerable because all they have is belief and those beliefs are fragile because doubt is never far behind. They have ideas of the nature of things but what they do not have 99% of the time is actual experience or direct perception of truth. Any beliefs (as creations of the mind) are self limiting and ultimately misleading because they will be fundamentally wrong. No matter how much or how little someone describes God or the Tao or the Dharma or even the state of Enlightenment – it is going to be fundamentally wrong because whatever way in which it is decribed it will be limited to that description. 'The Tao that cannot be named is the real Tao' as the old expression goes. More likely what happens is a person clings and grasps at ideas and beliefs and they just become an extension of ego – they become a part of someones so called identity and then they feel threatened when something of the contrary presents itself. An ego is nothing more than a punch bag offered up unconsciously by the person to be compared to other non truths and so by learned response a person feels threatened and must defend their ego. Whether it is ego or beliefs they are one and the same and both are limiting and shows that one has not matured spiritually. It is impossible to ruffle the feathers of an enlightened person who does not cling to beliefs or has an ego because there is nothing to ruffle! All theistic religions talk about going to Heaven in the next life as some sort of reward and so does Buddhism to some extent. But what kind of reward is this? Heaven is nothing more than the hope of fulfiling desires that cannot be fulfilled on Earth and -heres the spoiler – desires by their very nature are utterly unfulfilable. They are creations of mind that waste peoples energy and keep them unconscious by sheer habit. A life characterised by hope of going to Heaven and trying to ultimately fulfil desires that can never be fulfilled even in Heaven is a wasted life. Hope is a waste of time because it is living in an imaginary future and again a creation of mind. Better to live in the present with increasing awareness – then one is freed from desire and is more in accord with the way."I have realized that Christians must be intolerant of untruth". How can your truth be the same truth for everyone else? This is a classic example of egoism. An ego threatened by the very presence of other beliefs that it will begin to try an impose itself on everything around it. Ego's/beliefs are frqile and have a will of their own or at least they appear to. What really happens is people are unaware of their ego matrix and go through life in a robot-like unconscious fashion spouting drible about truth and the need to be intolerent. Belief systems are the very essence of unawareness. Christianity as a beilief system is just a doctrine and not a personal experience of things as they really are. In fact the very word 'Christ' describes a state of consciousness as to does the word 'Buddha' – it means to be awakened to truth. Still the mind and let go of beliefs and increase awareness and all hate, intolerence, prejudice will dissapear and truth will then enter in. Any idea, ego or belief system is ultimately against God or the Tao because it is not God or the Tao. All prayer is against God as well. Prayer is insanity – people say they pray in order to know God but then if you do not know God how can you pray to him? If you did know God then there would be no need to pray to him and you would accept everything that happens because it would be Gods will. People pray out of desire for things to change, they are unhappy with the PRESENT situation in some way so the desire it to be different and ultimately causes unhappiness and tension. This is the fundamental flaw of all belief sustems and religion in the world – they just beliefs and nothing more. The Christ had a personal experience of truth, not a doctrine of Christianity. Moreover belief systems are nothing more than societal restrictions placed on individuals – beliefs never set people free. In fact Jesus must have been influenced by teachings from the Buddha when one day a disciple asked Jesus "Have you brought a message of peace"? To which Jesus replied "No i have not brought a message of peace, i bring only a sword". Surely Jesus doesnt mean a sword with which to kill people?!? Christians have been keen to avoid this story because they do not understand it. When Jesus refers to sword he refers a to sword with which a person can cut the roots of the mind and the ego and ultimately beliefs, so that then they can experience reality. Anyone who gives a belief system is your enemy, they are not literally your enemy but they are doing you no favours. Awareness is key and the true teacher only seeks to make his students more aware and nothing more. Then there is true fulfilment and holiness (to be whole).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:52:00 +0000

Yeah. You're full of shit. I am totally with the Anonymous above Buddhaguhya{And that person as well}. Everything I was going to say was practically in that comment.

By: Buddhaguhya

Buddhaguhya — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:34:00 +0000

I see now that real reason why you think buddhism is "of the devil" is because buddhism leads to freedom and enlightment and your belife system leads to as you said yourself "to slavery".

By: for Anonymous

for Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:24:00 +0000

That guy was offcourse NOT a buddhist probably just another evangelical agent posing as buddhist on the internet to discredit buddhadharma.You know the way it goes- when you have no identity of your own you just attacking everyone's else identitiy and religion. Btw. If you need God to tell you that all the nasty stuff is nasty what happens if tomorrow God decides to change his mind and all the good stuff are now bad and porn , killing, lust and bestiality are now good!? Will you accept that because God said that? And in what way do you comunicate with God, does he speaks to you in dreams, what? You may find it hard to belive but buddhists have very strong mind about what is good and constructive and what's bad and harming! And we didn't here it or read it it's simply in our human mind as it is in yours.