KFDM Listens: Is Buddhism a Philosophy or Religion?

[WestVoice]

Well said. And yes, Buddhism is NOT A RELIGION.

[alejandro0002]

@WestVoice Quote/ "It is become the fourth fastest growing RELIGION of the US, although i think you can take it as you want and not wear that customs

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[pixusbubblejet]

why oh why are western people obsessed with dualistic categorization criteria?? western people need to stop that and deal with their dualistic tendencies in the first place.

[DreamsofMajesty]

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[LFJ]

where do we have the "buddha himself saying it is not a religion"? i'd like to see it.

why say buddhism is the 4th fastest growing "religion" in the u.s. after you just finish saying its not a religion? if the buddha himself said its not a religion, then who overrides him and makes it one now?

[dashiqi]

@LFJ in the end of his life "buddha said " i will leave first religion in the world without god , buddhism is Philosophy and religion so is in the middle .buddha said : Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense

[LFJ]

@dashiqi

you have first of all quoted without reference- first mistake. where does the buddha say anything about leaving a religion without god? please reference your quote.

you then butchered the kalama sutta in your second (unreferenced) quote. it states specifically not to believe something that simply agrees with your own reason or common sense. how can "your own common sense" be trusted, or distinguished from ignorance without first realization?

[sam51092]

I think his definition of philosophy is a little unfair. In the East and in pre-Christian Greece and Rome, philosophy was as much about finding 'the good life' as about 'amassing knowledge'.

I'd say there is both a religious buddhism and a philosophical buddhism. The difference being the former has all sorts of superstitious, supernatural baggage on top of the actual philosophy, and the latter does away with all that, being just about cultivating 'the good life'.

[kirk7524875248]

I'd say that was very well said!

[sam51092]

Cheers mate

[bck70]

I believe many of Americas problem can solved by Budhism.

[cineasta71]

@bck70 Can be but never will. Too many Christians there...