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 Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:18 am
Hi everyone. Is Buddha really a God to some Buddhists, Yes or No, thank you.
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:13 am
Buddha just means "enlightened" or "to awake"... so it's really more of a title than a person. Of course, there seem to be different ideas among the sects as to what exactly being enlightened implies.
In the popular use of the term "Buddha"... it's normally referring to the founder, Siddhartha Gautama. But he's not the Buddha. There's lots of Buddhas being born and reborn all the time in other worlds as well as this one.
My personal take on it is that there's nothing really to be worshipped other than existence (and not just mine, but everything seen and unseen)... and even then, it's in more of a scholarly, admiring kind of way. The feeling is somewhere in between unconditional love and nostalgia, I suppose.
I think I just might be crazy, though. ninja
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Akanishi Makoto Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:23 am
WiseFire777 Hi everyone. Is Buddha really a God to some Buddhists, Yes or No, thank you. He is deified in some denominations and disciplines, but he is not a God, in any sense of the word (unless you count Vishnu).
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:43 am
Akanishi Makoto He is deified in some denominations and disciplines, but he is not a God, in any sense of the word (unless you count Vishnu). He did catagorically deny it all the way through his life - in his own words, he's a man, and that's it. He even died in a simple, normal human way. A wise man, and one worth emulating, but a man none the less.
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:07 pm
I've yet to sort out which sect thinks want on this issue. sweatdrop
It seems to me that a Buddha is the same thing as a Bodhisattva. I mean, there's those koans of sorts that describe Buddha as a "dried turd". What Buddha is.. or what you call it, is really beside the point, ne?
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:38 pm
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There are people who make offerings and ask for things like "may I win the lottery" or "may I have sense-pleasures," maybe not with those exact wordings, but that's the idea. They seem to think that by making offerings, you can get something in return from the Buddha, as though the Buddha ran a business.
That is a misconception. Buddhas do not have ultimate power, they are omniscient. They know conventional and ultimate realities, and know how any action will unfold, karmically. But they do not have the power to re-write the Universe in the same way that the Christian God is supposed to.
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Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 9:04 pm
I've seen that before, too. I think Buddha's kind of a demi-god in Hinduism, but not in Buddhism.
Not sure - still a Buddhist newb sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:26 am
Kagerou Osajima Buddha just means "enlightened" or "to awake"... so it's really more of a title than a person. Of course, there seem to be different ideas among the sects as to what exactly being enlightened implies. In the popular use of the term "Buddha"... it's normally referring to the founder, Siddhartha Gautama. But he's not the Buddha. There's lots of Buddhas being born and reborn all the time in other worlds as well as this one. But if they were enlightened, wouldn't they stop being reborn?
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:08 am
Buddhas do halt the cycle of death and rebirth. They no longer arise in this world. They can, however, emmanate in this world. This is how Chenresig is able to appear as the Dalai Lama over and over again. Chenresig himself has passed beyond samsara, never to be reborn again here, but he can appear here.
Bodhisattvas still "die" and are "reborn," but instead of doing so under the force of karma, they do so under the force of compassion. This means that they have skill over the time, place, and conditions of their rebirth. Instead of being wildly blown around like the rest of us.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:08 am
The Buddha was a regular human being just like you and me who reached enlightenment at the age of 35. Buddha literally means "enlightened one" and there is no specific god for buddhists to follow (at least to my knowledge anyway). The Buddha just came up with the teaching of Buddhism and passed them on to his students and people practice those same teachings to this day.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:04 pm
[ Jizo Bosatsu ] ღஐღThere are people who make offerings and ask for things like "may I win the lottery" or "may I have sense-pleasures," maybe not with those exact wordings, but that's the idea. They seem to think that by making offerings, you can get something in return from the Buddha, as though the Buddha ran a business.
Actually Jambhala does that fine, who is a nirmanakaya of Chenrezik.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:59 pm
But, we do believes Buddha is a god.
I'm confuse here.
So, you're all saying Buddha is not a god, but an "enlightened one?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:21 pm
im not buddhist but from what ive read and heard is that buddhists believe there are gods/dieties in the heavens. they do not worship buddha as christians do god, they more or less acknowledge the fact that he has acheived higher enlightenment and know that if he was human and acheived that feat, they too can.
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:41 pm
billsabob im not buddhist but from what ive read and heard is that buddhists believe there are gods/dieties in the heavens. It really depends on the buddhist. Really, if believing in dieties is helpful to an individual, that's fine, but it's not something that's really important enough to wrangle over.
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