is it OK to be Christan and Buddhist at the same time?

Answer 1

Absolutely not. In Christianity, it's all or nothing.

Answer 2

Yes there is a book called "That's funny you don't look Buddhist" about a woman who is both Jewish and Buddhist and how she manages both of them in her life. You can make it work.. Many people don't see Buddhism as a religion but rather a philosophy.

In Buddhism you are expected to and allowed to get rid of the things that don't make sense to you.. it is not an all or nothing set of belief's. The Dalai Lama wrote a book recently about science... he wrote that if scientist an prove that something we Buddhist believe is false... then we as Buddhist have no choice but to change and adapt and accept what science has taught us...

I wish you luck

Answer 3

A very good question, well posited and an interesting supposition.

It is my experience that many folk who profess one belief in reality believe another. Buddhism teaches us to respect all life and that other's beliefs are just as valid as Buddhism.

As to whether it is "OK" or not is really irrelevent. It is your beliefs which are relevent to you. Your journey along the Path to enlightenment will enable your awareness to encompass this very question. To question is to be seeking. The Lord Buddha did not say we must become Buddhist, His advice was to follow the Path. My friend you are already on the Path, already one of the Wise allow me a smile for your insight and a bow for your wisdom.

Peace from a Buddhist.

Answer 4

No, you cannot be a Christian and a Buddhist at the same time.

"For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"

Ephesians 2:8-9 “For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast.”

Compare those verses to the Buddhist concept of reincarnation:

"Buddhists hold that a retributive process of karma can span more than one lifetime. Rebirth, or reincarnation, has always been an important tenet in Buddhism. And it is often referred to as walking the wheel of life (samsara). It is the process of being born over and over again in different times and different situations, possibly for many thousand times.”

Not only do the two religions disagree with each other, but practicing Buddhism while being a Christian is a blatant form of idol worship and when Moses received the 10 Commandments from God, one of them was “You shall have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:3)

It saddens me that there are many with a twisted view of Christianity where one thinks that God is out to get them if followers of Christ sin. That is not true. We're all fallen people. It was out of love, as mentioned above, that God chose to send His Son in the first place to redeem us from our sins and it should be out of our love for Him that we want to serve others and obey Him.

I cannot stress it enough so I'll say it again: it's out of love. If you understand that, then one will realize that they would not want to do something that God would hate. Make sense? If you love your friend, would you want to hurt them? No. Of course not. But even when we sin against God, if you're a Christian, and ask for forgiveness, He will forgive you because it's part of His unconditional love. Is it crazy? Yeah. Does it make any sense? Not really, but if it did, and we understood everything about God, He wouldn't be much of one now, would He?

Answer 5

Buddhism embraces all faiths and religions, with tolerance as a highly regarded strength and principle.
Christianity however tends to have strict doctrine on whats OK and not OK.
At the end of the day its up to you.
if your OK having a twin faith, then 'God' is OK with it.
I'm 'eclectic' (look up the meaning) and it works for me.

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Answer 7

You can be a Christian who applies some of the principals of Buddhism to your life. Meditation and following the eight-fold path might actually help you grow in your relationship with Christ.

Answer 8

Sure, I embrace both Christian & Buddhist beliefs

Answer 9

NO.

You are either a Christian or a Buddhist. You cannot be both.

You either follow teachings of Christ or the teachings of Buddha but you cannot do both because there is only one path to Heaven and Buddha has nothing to do with it but the choice is yours.

Which is it to be - Christ or Buddha ?

Answer 10

Not really!! Buddhists don't believe in a creator god.. And there is no savior....It's your life and you are living and learning for yourself. Compassion for all life is necessary in Buddhism.. We all strive to become a Buddha nature..

Answer 11

If you love mangoes, you are free to continue to eat mangoes, but no one forbids you to eat pineapples or oranges. Your favorite fruit is the mango, yes, but you don't betray your mango when you eat pineapple. I think it's too narrow-minded, even stupid, to enjoy only mango, when there are so many different fruits around in the world. Spiritual traditions are like spiritual fruits, and you have the right to enjoy them. It is possible to enjoy two traditions, to take the best of two traditions and live with that. If you like to eat Italian food, you can still enjoy French and Chinese cooking. You cannot say, "I have to be faithful to my Italian cooking", that's too funny.