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To: Grainne who wrote (97750)	3/12/2005 2:12:01 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<Buddhism is a religion, [but] it has no God> According to the doctrine, the universe we know is only a part of a greater universe beyond, that has a god-like property in that there is a supreme consciousness to which lesser consciousnesses are simply manifestations. Throw in some melds of dualism and we're closer to physics than most orthodox Fundamentalist Christian sects. The most interesting thing about religious thought is the sheer range of beliefs possible under one label! The stage of the Buddhists is one of many universes in which infinitely many souls deeply attached in a false reality, grasping at material distraction to evade the suffering that is existence. It is in attaching to the oneness that a soul becomes transcendent and "god-like". The Siddhartha Bodhisattva Buddha was not THE BUDDHA according to the Tibetans but A BUDDHA. There are other views on this - that he was the most BUDDHA-like of the possible BUDDHA-like manifestations. I prefer the Tibetan Buddhisms to other variants I've read about. Hey, but dogma does vary about Buddha. It seems the least prescriptive of the religions in terms of defining how reality must work.