Originally Posted By: swampwalkerClearly, you know very little about Buddhism. In no way are God or Gods central to Buddhist teachings. The budda hardly mentioned anything having to do with an afterlife and often steered his monks away from speculative talk about it.
Again, it's easy to cast stones like a child and say I don't believe and there is no evidence, however you cannot prove your point and there is no evidence to suggest that what ever value system you are trying to claim is even remotely provable or true. So it all boils down to faith and Trust.
The religious explanation is a lot more palatable to explain all that happens in our understanding than.. "No it doesn't exist, prove it," type of claims. I have yet to see anything from either of you to support your views or claims, what ever they may be. That is what makes you Trolls. Just stirring and insulting.
But, hey you know all about all religions, despite never having spent any time there in those regions. I have lived in Japan for over a year, where i studied the language and religion. I visited dozens of buhddist temples.
here are images of just one that i spent several weekends at talking to the monks and walking the grounds, reading and learning.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gotemba+...920&bih=974
This one in Okinawan was my favorite.
https://traveldreamscapes.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/japan-okinawa-underground-caves/
BTW they make Sake with those snakes, called HabuSake. (
http://nihonscope.com/food-and-sake/habushu-snake-sake-courageous/ ) If you are bit by these snakes you have hours to live. They are in the jungles and there are several kinds that lay in wait. I found many of them, and during my 2 week Jungle survival training at The jungle warfare school, you learned to live and survive in the jungles. There are two courses, one is a training course for fighting, the other is the survival. I went to both.
The 2 week tour of the temples in Thailand was also incredible.
from the Rose garden to the Ancient City of Siam (
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As well as the tour i took of the jungle buddhist Tiger temple, where the jungle monks treated and cared for animals injured and brought to them. There you see a lot of local wildlife. You can wash an elephant in the river, or pet a tiger. Both were a lot of fun.
I also spent time in India, and Korea.
Where did you get your knowledge? You claim to know all.. So share where this fountain of knowledge came from. A book? haha
A simple wikipedia search of Buhddism shows your lack of understanding. Your clearly missing the part of Buddhism vs. Buddha.
It's like saying that Jesus is the only part and missing the parts about the spirit, and angles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities
Buddhism includes a wide array of divine beings that are venerated in various ritual and popular contexts. Initially they included mainly Indian deities such as devas and yakshas, but later came to include other Asian spirits and local gods. They range from enlightened Buddhas to regional spirits adopted by Buddhists or practiced on the margins of the religion.
Buddhists later also came to incorporate aspects from countries such as China and Japan into their pantheons.[1] As such, it includes many aspects taken from other mythologies of those cultures. Saraswati is a Hindu Deva from Gandhara and the kami[1] are considered to be local, Japanese bodhisattvas by many Japanese Buddhists.
Here is a simple link to see a listing of the gods/Deities. the 3rd one down on the list shows the 10 most popular.
http://bfy.tw/ECsk
Stick to insulting Christians before drowning while swimming out into the deep end.