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| Which (if any) Religions/Philosophies do you blend with your Buddhist practices? |
| Shinto |
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12% |
[ 4 ] |
| Taoism |
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22% |
[ 7 ] |
| Yoga |
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6% |
[ 2 ] |
| Hinduism |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Christianity |
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16% |
[ 5 ] |
| Jewdaism |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Catholocism |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Islam |
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3% |
[ 1 ] |
| Pagan (Please Specify) |
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19% |
[ 6 ] |
| Other (Please Specify) |
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19% |
[ 6 ] |
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| Total Votes : 31 |
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:57 pm
Ok, so people seem to be in agreement that Buddhism is just about the easiest belief system to mix with other religions, and philosophies, so I thought I'd start a poll to see how common it is for those members of this community to mix beliefs, and which beliefs are the most common.
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:03 pm
Technically I don't blend it with anything, unless you count the Officially Sanctioned Blendings (tm) of Zen with general Mahayana and a bit of Theravada. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:06 pm
Ok, I didn't realise this wasn't a multi-choice thing before, if there's anyway that can be done I'd love it if the mods would fix it for me (I'm unable to edit the poll or original post, period.). So for now, anyone that replies can include a list of their influences in their post, and just vote for your biggest influence in the poll. For myself it would probably be Yoga (not the physical exercise, the Yoga philosophy), of course I voted before I realised I couldn't select more than one choice.
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:11 pm
Unfortunately, all I can do for you is either leave the poll as is or delete it altogether - there isn't a multichoice option I can change it to.
Oh, and while I'm here and managing to think straight between the germs, I should explain why I said officially sanctioned blends. It's the Zen thing. While it's an offshoot of Buddhism, it's been changed by meetings with local colour - ie, taoism (and shinto) in various places (though I'm more the taoist mainlander type than the shinto Japanese brand)- and thus, though it's considered a branch of the faith, it's technically just a new blend of Buddhist plus other stuff.
My influences, then, are Zen (in the Vietnamese form more than the Japanese), general Mahayana practice and a heavy Theravada dose from living with one for the last three years.
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Akanishi Makoto Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:22 pm
I can sympathize with Byaggha when it comes to the manner of Zen that we practice.
I'm very heavily influenced by the Tao, and in fact, I've found the Tao to be a more philosophical version of Zen Buddhism, only without the explanations that the Buddha and the patriarchs have laid down.
If you take note, the 10 Bulls that I posted is a compilation of Tao paintings and Zen comments.
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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:22 am
I find myself a mixture of Buddhist and Pagan, where my pagan influences pull from about a dozen 'religions'. i'm a pick and choose kind of person. i read up on a religion, see something that my heart can relate to, and i carry that influence with me. I find that I'm a much happier person getting revelation of my own faith by study various pre-established faiths, than I ever was trying to conform to one particular faith and failing miserably because i did not feel they were 100% true (for me, at least).
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Akanishi Makoto Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:02 am
Not one truth, but many. Life and spirituality can be thought of as a journey up a mountain. There are many paths, but the end result is the same. If you were on a path, and you came upon someone else on a different path, would not both of you make it to the summit, just by different means?
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:58 am
Akanishi Makoto Not one truth, but many. Life and spirituality can be thought of as a journey up a mountain. There are many paths, but the end result is the same. If you were on a path, and you came upon someone else on a different path, would not both of you make it to the summit, just by different means? what a beautiful way of putting it. yes, i totally believe that there are many paths towards spirituality.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:51 pm
I am an athiest, so I blend the philosophies of Buddhism with my athiestic beliefs. It works out rather well. xd Buddhism is a mellow religion/philosophy that combines easily with others, it's refreshing!
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:11 pm
Rinimarie I am an athiest, so I blend the philosophies of Buddhism with my athiestic beliefs. It works out rather well. xd Buddhism is a mellow religion/philosophy that combines easily with others, it's refreshing! Well, fundamentally Buddhism is God-less... although it will take some digging to find the source of that... and it can be easily adapted because it is more of a way of life than a religion, in the accepted sense of the word.
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Akanishi Makoto Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:15 am
One thing that has always amused me is members of the western faiths who think that Buddhists believe Buddha and the Boddhisattvas (?spelling?) are gods. If they knew anything about the religion they'd understand that this is not the case at all, and that there is a very good reason why it isn't. This is actually one reason that I started studying the teachings of Buddha and metaphysical Yoga, it just didn't make sense to me that someone could still believe in a creator god in this day and age when everything pointed to such a being not existing.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:38 am
Merlin the White One thing that has always amused me is members of the western faiths who think that Buddhists believe Buddha and the Boddhisattvas (?spelling?) are gods. If they knew anything about the religion they'd understand that this is not the case at all... This isn't always true. Have you looked at Jodo, for example? The Buddha is seen as a deity there, at the very least. They actively pray for his salvation and surrender over to his will. And some sects (Jodo again, and Tibetan, as well as some (but not all) Japanese Shinto-Buddhists) do venerate the Bodhisattvas as gods and goddesses - more often than not, I see one of them (Kwan Yin) called the Goddess of Compassion. So in a way, even if they have done some reading and have this opinion of Buddhism, they still could be correct. It all depends on the sect they've read up on.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:31 am
hmm, I didn't know that, thank you for enlightening (heh, little pun there, sorry, couldn't resist) me on this subject.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:03 am
I've heard of people blending Buddhism and, for example, Christianity, that fundamentally just doesn't seem possible because of Christianities beliefs about a single deity, among other things conflicting with Buddhism's views on the subject. Anyone have any thoughts about this?
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:54 pm
Merlin the White I've heard of people blending Buddhism and, for example, Christianity, that fundamentally just doesn't seem possible because of Christianities beliefs about a single deity, among other things conflicting with Buddhism's views on the subject. Anyone have any thoughts about this? I've seen Zen Christian, but there they divorce Zen from Buddhism. Buddhist-Christian is a bit odd in places, but if you use Jodo as the Buddhist base, they can see Jesus and Buddha as the same figure - a savior, with who's help they can reach heaven and then nirvana.
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