any buddhists?

i put this in silliness, casue, well, I di, just wondering if anyone else reads or studies buddhism or gets enlightenment from the dalai lama's teachings. I'm just curious. I live by the code of empathy and compassion and sense such a dearth of it in the world today.

I wouldn't say I'm Buddhist because I don't "claim" to be anything.....but I highly respect the teachings and I believe in a lot of the philosophy behind it.

Good. i like these responses. I'm just asking if ya read about it. Amazing stuff. I just wish we had more of the budhist sense of empathy an compassion in this life...

ok. I am a Catholic. I believe that jesus was God manifested inhuman form on Earth, but i also believe in the Budda's teachings of kindness, humility, empathy and compassion and use Buddhist meditation in my daily life. i am teh reed that doesn't know he could not exist without the pond. nature and kindness...my body after death will feed the earth and insects and so i will continue. i just want to know am i alone? damn, but that dalai Lama can write and make death not scary. I'm not scared to die for so many reasons and believe death is the Real Deal after it all...

Nope, not I.

i see, i am the voice crying in the wilderness....

death is the journey of the soul. long after tehn "meat" of our bodies decays the soul will travel. i wish we all will be prepared for that journy.

I am Bro, I only been to temple once. As far as the philosophy and way of living I am very much a buddhist though. The whole karma system makes a hell of a lot more sense in the "bad things happening to good people" situation.

I am a sybarite and libertine: cigars, booze, flesh..I am weak...so weak..may i one day before death throw these things off...

well said.

i live my life through the creed of compassion and empathy, and there is much evidence that Christ took up buddha's teachings. these are teachings from God. It becomes people empathetic and compassionate towards others, Krishna too. God has sent messangers. No one is completely bad or evil...

even those who deny God are created by God. Maybe they have had bad experiences with christ school or other, but there is a higher power. Inherently they know this. They know that to do good creates good. My mother was jewish and my father was Catholic. But it was all the same God. Once you open and live in God, there become so many possibilities. and Buddhism is the lynch pin. It all goes back to Budha's teachings...be good and good will happen...to simplify...Live not for the self...

Live IN christ, buddha, krishna...and good WILL happen...Live not for the self, but for others. This life is temporary. we do not rot in the grond. we continue judged upon what we do in this life...

I know this because God spoke to me as a child, as an alter boy and again,after i left him, in my 30s....

I believe this and know it is true.

The Dalai Lama stuff is pretty watered down, innocuous and silly but yes, I'd say more Buddhist than Christian or any other of the organized religions.

...too many starving people to feed, to worry about things like that...

--cant spell..

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As there are several paths to Buddhism, I do follow one. I have great respect for the Dalai Lama, (even though he did Larry King Live), and think that he has done wonderful things for awareness of Buddhist beliefs. I follow Daishoninism, which is still the Lotus sutra. Mahayana, not Hinayana (Theravaden).
Nice to see other perverted buddhists (just kidding, just kidding)--but it's cool that there are other Boo's on here.
--Lotus--

There's a theory that the time (I don't know when, I'm not well versed in Christian history) that there are holes in Jesus' existance, APPARENTLY, and I'd like to think it's true, cause it would be really cool....ANYWAY, some believe that there is evidence that he went to India, and came across another prophet. A lot of the people who suppose this, also believe (because of over lap of times) that he met "the" Buddha, Sidhartha Gotama. I think that's a cool idea, if nothing else.
--Lotus--

You might want to try the Buddhism group.

Jesus Christ. When I was sixteen I started practicing this militant, disciplinatarian (if that's even a fucking word) organized religion that it is, waking up every SINGLE fucking day at sharply 6:00 a.m. to recite morning gongyo and chanting for no less than 1 hour every day. Every day. FOR THE WHOLE FUCKING YEAR. I think that I missed evening prayer, like once that whole year. I looke back on it now, though, it was a very enlightening expierience, if you will. No pun intended.

If that was an unwelcomed experience for you I'm sorry that it was...there are many forms of Daishoninism. My practice consists more of using Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as a prayer/meditation...It's not regimented. It's not strict. Unless I want it to be. I don't live it by anyone else's standards. I live it by my own. And the other Daishoninist's that I know are the same. No judgement, no pressure. I love the philosophy. Nichiren was a very forward thinker. I think that most people have precepts of Daishoninism because of the more public groups that follow his work. That's not me.
--Lotus--

I might be. Depending on what you think one is.