Thoughts on Buddhism

[Rev. Rye]

Well, I have considered becoming a Buddhist, in particular the Theravada form, but reincarnation has been the major stumbling block for me , but now that I've read Stephen Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs, and found that one can (apparently) be a Buddhist without accepting reincarnation or becoming a vegetarian (because vegetarian food, in my own personal opinion, is terrible when it tries to pretend to be meat; that said, meat-eating appears to be accepted in Buddhism as long as you don't kill the animal yourself, or know that it was killed especially for you), and now the major stumbling block is being bothered to practice meditation.