Friday, December 7, 2007

Buddha b. 580 BC. A Hindu, he believed in reincarnation & taught detachment to end suffering. Believed in “Dhamma Pada” or Dharma Path, essentially the 10 paths of righteousness that include not harming animal life, eating well from grains & nuts & plants, etc. The buddha did not believe in God; was atheistic. We are all God & through meditation can leave the lower paths to attain nirvana & never be reborn into a life of suffering.
The lights seen after death in the Tibetan Book of the Dead were gestated by Tibetans after Buddhism passed into Tibet in 700 AD. Buddha did not speak of many of the variations developed by Buddhists in Tibet, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, China, or Japan. The Sri Lankan Buddhists have been examining the connections between science & religion. Each group has a variation on the basic Hindi concepts conceived of in a different light by buddha who was born on the Nepalese/Indian border.
Transmigration of souls means the body of a person is temporarily inhabited by the soul of another being—animal or human. This soul takes over & makes the slave-body do things it would not naturally do, then leaves. Reminds me of MPD, unconscious complexes, schizophrenia. Some Buddhists believe that w/ the explosion of human population & the concommittant reduction of animal population, animal souls are transmigrating into humans & humans are being born w/ animal souls, thus maintaining the animal population, explaining why so many humans behave like animals.
Many Buddhists have written about this religion & are building on the ideas of others. It is important to get the ideas out there so others can build upon them. My ideas are important & should be published in some form so others can relate to them in the future.
There are contradictions among Buddhists. For example, China was ruled by Tibet for 300 years, so how could Buddhists who are not supposed to fight create an army of warriors? The fact that Tibet ruled China is now used as an excuse for China to rule Tibet; Chinese state that they are the same country by hx. Another contradiction lies in the fact that Tibet is 10-11K feet up, limiting the amount of agriculture, enforcing the need to eat animals, which runs contrary to the need to live a clean life & avoid eating flesh.
Future reading: Dhamma Pada.
Buddha b. 580 BC. A Hindu, he believed in reincarnation & taught detachment to end suffering. Believed in “Dhamma Pada” or Dharma Path, essentially the 10 paths of righteousness that include not harming animal life, eating well from grains & nuts & plants, etc. The buddha did not believe in God; was atheistic. We are all God & through meditation can leave the lower paths to attain nirvana & never be reborn into a life of suffering.
The lights seen after death in the Tibetan Book of the Dead were gestated by Tibetans after Buddhism passed into Tibet in 700 AD. Buddha did not speak of many of the variations developed by Buddhists in Tibet, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, China, or Japan. The Sri Lankan Buddhists have been examining the connections between science & religion. Each group has a variation on the basic Hindi concepts conceived of in a different light by buddha who was born on the Nepalese/Indian border.
Transmigration of souls means the body of a person is temporarily inhabited by the soul of another being—animal or human. This soul takes over & makes the slave-body do things it would not naturally do, then leaves. Reminds me of MPD, unconscious complexes, schizophrenia. Some Buddhists believe that w/ the explosion of human population & the concommittant reduction of animal population, animal souls are transmigrating into humans & humans are being born w/ animal souls, thus maintaining the animal population, explaining why so many humans behave like animals.
Many Buddhists have written about this religion & are building on the ideas of others. It is important to get the ideas out there so others can build upon them. My ideas are important & should be published in some form so others can relate to them in the future.
There are contradictions among Buddhists. For example, China was ruled by Tibet for 300 years, so how could Buddhists who are not supposed to fight create an army of warriors? The fact that Tibet ruled China is now used as an excuse for China to rule Tibet; Chinese state that they are the same country by hx. Another contradiction lies in the fact that Tibet is 10-11K feet up, limiting the amount of agriculture, enforcing the need to eat animals, which runs contrary to the need to live a clean life & avoid eating flesh.
Future reading: Dhamma Pada.