Buddha encouraged people to not believe anything or anyone, but he offered a path he had experienced. He taught that you have to prove everything for yourself and meditation was the way that he found to look at himself and discover the truth about the world. The ultimate truth is that we are all interdependent with the world around us and thus, being good to every other living being is also being good to ourselves. To know this is only a step, to understand the implications is enlightenment. Deity-based religions focus on punishment, dogma, and a promise of another place with a 'god'. Why just believe when you can know?
2006-07-08
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