Posted by: netaa_ji January 24, 2005
Buddhism
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Confused The things are very clear here. Up somewhere, you mentioned:....... "both Hinduism and Buddhism has no judgement day" I reminded you about the story of YAMARAJ just to make you realize that "accordind to Hindu stories" the supposed judgement day does exist in Hinduism based on what I have heard and I have known about Hinduism. I dont necessarily need to believe in the story nor the Hinduism to tell you or remind you about your claim ("Hinduism does not have a judgement day") which does not seem to be true according to what I have read about Hinduism. First of all, Buddhism was never established to solve the question of an age old question (or mystery, or doubt of) wether "the god exist or not". In the 4 million years of human history no one could solve that question and most likely nothing and onone could ever be able to solve that question therefore Gautam Buddha realized the fact that the question or doubt about the existance of god will continue until the end of human kind. The endless debate that was going on for ages did not seem to come to anyl conclusion nor any useful result, forget about even attaining god when its existance is still in question nor it is proven. Therefore Gautam Buddha believed that a waste of time and and a waste of one's effort to get into the debate and throughout his lifetime after his enlightment he refused to discuss on the possibility of existance of god because it didnt matter at all if the god really existed or not. Therefore the gods became totally irrelavent subject matter in Buddhism. Total concentration and effort was given to understand the "the true nature of reality" and the true nature of mind famously understood as "state of mind" and solve more immediate human problems that can be seen or felt or understood and faced by every individuals in their every day of their lives such as mental and physical well being, being pain, suffering, anger, fear, excitment, joy, happiness etc. Ending suffering became the ultimate goal of Buddhism.
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