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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (541735)	1/7/2010 3:09:07 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576297

That was a pretty good article. I can see Buddhists not liking Hume's statements ... but for very different reasons than the secularists.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (541735)	1/7/2010 3:14:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576297

I believe the following from your article.....esp. the lines that I have bolded: "Said Stephen Prothero, a Boston University professor on Buddhism and the author of "Religious Literacy: What Americans Need to Know:" "You have the law of karma, so no matter what Woods says or does, he is going to have to pay for whatever wrongs he's done," said Prothero. "There's no accountant in the sky wiping sins off your balance sheet, like there is in Christianity." Certain Buddhist traditions believe that if a person misbehaves, he or she will be reborn into various realms of hell. Others believe the justice is much swifter, that the penalties will be suffered in this life. "What causes you to do what Tiger Woods did is ignorance," said James William Coleman, a professor of Buddhist studies at Cal Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. "If you do what he's done, it comes back and hurts you. You wouldn't do that if you weren't ignorant." Brad Warner, a California-based Zen priest and the author of the book "Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate" suggests that Woods return to his Buddhism roots and become introspective. "I would first tell him to sit with the problem, look into himself and try to see clearly for himself what he needs to do," Warner said. "The problem is something he's got to work out for himself."