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To: The_Reader_David
Buddhism contains many consolations for the grieving, without being theistic.

Such as?

16 posted on 03/14/2008 11:19:33 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody

Such as ‘He lived a good life, in his next he will have an easier time of attaining enlightenment.’

The post WW II saying about the Japanese is that they are born as Shintoist, married as Christians and die as Buddhists.

Not buying the death and rebirth stuff myself, I can only report from afar that folks who do find Buddhist doctrines consoling at the time of death and at the death of a loved one.


28 posted on 03/15/2008 8:42:00 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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