2172~DO BUDDHISTS BELIEVE IN GOD?
-- by Kusala Bhikshu
(An extract from the talk given at a high school in Los Angeles.)
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"To Buddha, the end of suffering is more important than God.
Then how everything in this world got started... "If you don’t have God in Buddhism then who or what caused the universe?"
When the Buddha was asked how the world started, he kept silent. In the religion of Buddhism we don’t have a first cause, instead we have a never ending circle of birth and death. In this world and in all worlds, there are many beginnings and ends. The model of life used in Buddhism has no starting place... It just keeps going and going.
So, God is not what Buddhism is about... Suffering is...But, Buddhist's don't believe God can end suffering. Only the teaching's of the Buddha can help us end suffering through wisdom and the activity of compassion."
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(An extract from the talk given at a high school in Los Angeles.)
________________________
"To Buddha, the end of suffering is more important than God.
Then how everything in this world got started... "If you don’t have God in Buddhism then who or what caused the universe?"
When the Buddha was asked how the world started, he kept silent. In the religion of Buddhism we don’t have a first cause, instead we have a never ending circle of birth and death. In this world and in all worlds, there are many beginnings and ends. The model of life used in Buddhism has no starting place... It just keeps going and going.
So, God is not what Buddhism is about... Suffering is...But, Buddhist's don't believe God can end suffering. Only the teaching's of the Buddha can help us end suffering through wisdom and the activity of compassion."
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