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Im looking for an easy way to learn about buddhism iv always been drawn towards this, the trouble i have is im pretty much house bound with breathing problems (copd) so its hard getting to some ,classes, i wondered if there was any internet sites that anyone out there nos of or easy reading books, i borght the four noble truths by dalai lama but dident understand it at all and stopped reading it in the end, im hoping the yoga side of it would help my breathing and love the peacefullness that meditation would bring, if the classes were easy accesable and in the yorkshire area it may be possible. any help or advice on buddhism would be greatly appreciated . thanks xxx
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i wear a buddha and if it ever falls off something bad happens to me. last time it fell off I nearly died in a landslide in Peru. Im not really buddhist but love the religion. I live in Leeds and not been able to find anything close by. There is a buddhist retreat though that I want to go for the weekend but quite pricey. they teach you there!
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Buddhism does not deal with the problem of sin, but glosses over it with thoughts of re-incarnation and ulimately nirvana, ceasing to exist.
Christianity is your only true hope for true enlightenment.
Forget churches, just read your New Testament, and pray to the one true living God that He will reveal Himself to you in your own particular circumstances.
I am very sorry to learn of your health problems.
Please come back and post again.
Buddhism does not deal with the problem of sin, but glosses over it with thoughts of re-incarnation and ulimately nirvana, ceasing to exist.
Christianity is your only true hope for true enlightenment.
Forget churches, just read your New Testament, and pray to the one true living God that He will reveal Himself to you in your own particular circumstances.
I am very sorry to learn of your health problems.
Please come back and post again.
suzee 1
Buddhism does not deal with the problem of sin, but glosses over it with thoughts of re-incarnation and ulimately nirvana, ceasing to exist.
Christianity is your only true hope for true enlightenment.
Forget churches, just read your New Testament, and pray to the one true living God that He will reveal Himself to you in your own particular circumstances.
I am very sorry to learn of your health problems.
Please come back and post again.
Buddhism does not deal with the problem of sin, but glosses over it with thoughts of re-incarnation and ulimately nirvana, ceasing to exist.
Christianity is your only true hope for true enlightenment.
Forget churches, just read your New Testament, and pray to the one true living God that He will reveal Himself to you in your own particular circumstances.
I am very sorry to learn of your health problems.
Please come back and post again.
Theland, how many times have you said this about Buddhism, and how many times have you been told it isn't so? Do you simply refuse to listen to anything that doesn't suit your beliefs? Nirvana isn't 'ceasing to exist', and Buddhism does deal with wrong-doing - although it doesn't pose the horrifically evil threat of eternal damnation as your religion does. Whilst you follow your blinkered brand of Christianity, you will never find enlightenment and you'll remain in the dark forever - so please don't presume to teach others. You'll be doing them no favours at all.
Theland, we've talked about this before, but never mind. Buddhists believe that compassion and love bring happiness and well-being. Nirvana is a state free of desire, selfishness, suffering, or further rebirth, in which a person simply is, and is completely at one with his surroundings. If Nirvana, were, as you say, 'ceasing to exist', common sense tells you that human beings wouldn't aim to achieve it.
This is a simply overview of Buddhism, and quite honestly, I can't find fault with it. Can you?
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/5minbud.ht m
This is a simply overview of Buddhism, and quite honestly, I can't find fault with it. Can you?
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/5minbud.ht m
Theland, you are quite determined to keep the blinkers on and ignore what's there, aren't you? Sin is not a word used in Buddhism, thank goodness. Buddhism gives people responsiblity for their own actions, it acknowledges wrong-doing and guides its followers away from it, and it deals with it through reincarnation.
As for encouraging poverty, wasn't that precisely what Jesus encouraged? Rich men, camels and eyes of needles spring to mind.
Buddhism recognises Jesus as a good moral teacher - and that's exactly what I recognise him as. He was nothing more. And as for your God, he was far from perfect, as you well know.
As for encouraging poverty, wasn't that precisely what Jesus encouraged? Rich men, camels and eyes of needles spring to mind.
Buddhism recognises Jesus as a good moral teacher - and that's exactly what I recognise him as. He was nothing more. And as for your God, he was far from perfect, as you well know.
