RE: Thoughts on Buddhism
January 24, 2012 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2012 at 11:30 am by Anomalocaris.)
Quote:My thoughts on Buddhism are very few and far in between. I have little to no problems with it, but I don't really see much validity in it.
I would see Lack of validity as a irredeemably damning problem for any system of belief, or in this case, make belief.
Quote:I came across an article on Theravada Buddhism, now I did not spend enough time with Theravada buddhism to say much but they are quite interesting. An article said that ordained monks was trained and teach to not accept any teachings either from sutras or from teachers unless it agrees with logic and reasoning
If the bit about logic and reasoning is not just a smoke screen, then one might expect that 2000 years of repetitive injunction to logic and reason would have produced at leadt a few luminaries amongst Buddhists who would have advanced the craft of logic and reasoning in a way perceptible to those outside the echo chamber of mumbling chants that seem to characterize Buddhism.