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    Buddhism and God
    Buddhism and God
    Buddhism and God
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    Buddhism and God

    By Tenzin Gyurme

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    An In-depth Examination of the Non-theist qualities of Buddhism. This book takes a close look at the relationship that emptiness holds to the path of enlightenment and how the idea of a Creator is not outside the boundaries of conventional Buddhist thought. A must read for any advanced Buddhist philosopher

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTenzin Gyurme
    Release dateDec 31, 2015
    ISBN9781310567285
    Buddhism and God
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    Tenzin Gyurme

    Tenzin Gyurme is a Sound Healer and Meditation Instructor currently living in Ireland. You can contact him via email tzingyurme@gmail.com

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      Buddhism and God - Tenzin Gyurme

      Introduction

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      I wasn’t walking this earth three millennia ago, at least not in a conscious embodiment of my soul. (Though, I am open to discovering that through deep introspective work). As I am not capable of realizing that just yet, instead I would love to talk with the Karmapa, who is a conscious emanation of the embodiment of a Buddha, and ask him exactly what Sakyamuni Buddha, (also known as Siddhartha Guatama) was thinking. And this is because there is a question that I have wanted to ask him about his reflective reasoning.

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      But up until know, I haven’t been able to form it in an intelligible fashion. Maybe it was because I didn’t understand the question?

      One thing is for certain, I am not really sure that I understand it even now, but at least I have the curiosity to ask.

      So I would ask:

      Why is Buddhism a non-theistic relígíon ? Or in the sense that it doesn’t believe in god, a non-theistic philosophy? Why, after all of the Buddha’s deep work, did he stop at emptiness?

      Those are questions that I have asked myself lately, and because I consider myself a Buddhist, there are times I question my faith. And in those moments, I have to ask myself, did I become a Buddhist in order to not believe in god?

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      I was initially raised in a Scottish Presbyterian household in the sixties. And with some Catholic oversight, I was in reaction to god. The god that I was exposed to was a vindictive god. So I shied away instinctively from that paradigm, and gravitated towards anything else.

      In high school, I took a course in eastern religions. While engrossed in eastern religions, I immediately gravitated to Taoism and Buddhism, as they were non-theistic in nature. And I realize now that I was open to these philosophies because it gave me pause to invent a different relationship with a concept of creation.

      At the time, this felt natural to me, so I didn’t question it. And when I felt cloistered by the current religious paradigms, I would shy away, and find my own niche.

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      Then, when the movie ‘Star Wars’ came out in the seventies, I

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