Re: Teach Doug Buddhism
"As far as paying tribute or worshipping Buddha, I've never quite understood how that fit in, because even he would not have understood why people were inclined to do that. You don't reach enlightenment by worshipping an idol, it is the methods and the things you do, meditating, ritual lighting, pilgrimages that set you into the necessary mindset to be receptive to the teachings and wisdom."
Many great spiritual masters would disagree with you there. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] In fact, they say the opposite. They say that you can reach enlightenment by either surrender to God or the guru or through self-inquiry, as long as you do it with extreme devotion. Things like meditation could never lead to enlightenment, because enlightenment is the realization that the 'ego'-self is just an illusion, and not real, while meditation presupposes the ego's existence to practice it!
BTW, when you speak of enlightenment, what do you mean?
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