[sanormal]

"Orthodoxy is less of an institution (like, say, the Episcopal Church) and more of a spiritual path (like Buddhism)."

Exactly.

[stripes1776]

"Orthodoxy is less of an institution (like, say, the Episcopal Church) and more of a spiritual path (like Buddhism)."

MarMema: Thank you very much, Mama Fred.

sanormal: Exactly.

There is no God in Buddhism. Any belief in God or concept of God is an illusion that must be renounced. This is quite different from a religion that not only believes in a God but God as Holy Trinity. Buddhism also posits only the great Void--nothingness--as the basis of reality. This again is quite different from an apophatic theology that makes a distinction between the essence of God and the energies of God.

And then there is the question of the body and personal existence. A Buhhhist must renounce the body. It has no real existence. Neither does personal existence or the world of sense, since personal identity and all material existence must be absorbed into the grand nothingness at the center of the Universe. Once again, this is quite different from an ascetical struggle for the sake of the salvation and resurrection of the body along with whole man--and the transformation of the Cosmos at the end of time in the eschaton.

So perhaps you could explain the similarities between Orthodoxy and Buddhism, because the author of the article doesn't explain the analogy--there is only an assertion.

[pravknight]

Fr. Alexander FC Webster, the author of several Regina Press books, says Orthodoxy is not an organized religion, rather it is disorganized one.