(February 24, 2013 at 2:17 am)missluckie26 Wrote: Hi there! Can you explain how you can be an athiest Buddhist? I'm so confused, I thought Buddhists believed in a god!
There are some sects of Buddhism that do have a god, but the general practice is more of a philosophy on simply how to live your life. The Buddha who created the religion was an actual person and though there are figures and idols of him, we don't worship them. But the philosophy is based on his teachings about how to live your life and reach a state of enlightenment. The root of all the teachings is simply to better yourself as a human being. And I don't know everything about the practice, I wasn't born into it and I've never gone to temple, but basically I try to follow it because I like the message.
And the fact that the real message actually gets across to its followers correctly.
