Questions tagged [religion]
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Is Buddhism a fear-based religion?
My general observation about religions is that they have this fundamental assumption of fear of something. For example, fear of punishment or getting into hell is present in many religions. Buddhism too has this fear of rebirth in lower realms, but…
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What should we say when someone asks 'What is your religion?'
Recently I faced such thing. Occasionally I faced an orthodox guy. We were talking about marriage, then he came on this thing "My religion is xxx what is yours?"
First I ignored him but he asked me again so I answered "Buddhist." He didn't really…
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Why do so many traditions and religions have saint men who claim having attained enlightenment?
According to the suttas, the then Bodhisatta Gotama discovered by himself that ascetic practices of his contemporary India were not enough (or were even wrong) to attain complete enlightenment. Then, after trying his own methods and intuitions, he…
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