(October 16, 2018 at 5:34 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Probably that's the cause of your negative feelings: you didn't believe in Buddhism strongly; didn't you?
I agree with a lot of the basic (non-theistic) principles like the Four Noble Truths, but the particular group I tumbled into was derived from the Mahayana tradition rather than the Theravada side. It came with a large side order of woo-woo, attributing supernatural qualities to a mantra and a scroll. My onboard BS detector prevented me from accepting that aspect of the practice, and eventually I just walked away.