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To: donmeaker

Some teachers tell students beginning Buddhist meditation that the notion of divinity is not incompatible with Buddhism.

At least one Buddhist scholar (Dr. B. Alan Wallace) has indicated that describing Buddhism as non-theistic may be overly simplistic.


17 posted on 01/05/2014 7:30:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The classic aphorism by the Buddha was “The things of G-d are unknown, and unknowable, so why argue?”

Buddhism is not incompatible with the divine, but also recognizes that it is not necessary. Any divinity worth consideration will communicate clearly, contemporaneously, and unambiguously. Absent all those qualifications, arguments about ancient texts, ambiguous meanings, and attempts to describe an unlimited G-d with human language to limited minds, by limited minds are bound to lead to more heat than light.


24 posted on 01/05/2014 8:42:50 PM PST by donmeaker (A man can go anywhere on earth, and where man can go, he can drag a cannon.)
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