I would not say Buddhism is a science
is impart means sort of the relates to
being a religion you know like Hinduism
Confucianism Daoism so ISM sort of
automatically assumes a religion and I
agree that Buddhism is a religion for
those who do not use its educational
system very fully and in Asian history
since most of the societies for a long
period of time were so the same
illiterate or very non literate
societies and very few people were
educated on the upper classes and then
lays it later buddhist monks and nuns
once buddhism was in that society
we're literate and so you're illiterate
farmer who would be taught a sort of
pious sermon by a buddhist monk or
basically at receptacle precepts etc and
i might observe the example of Buddhist
monks being self restrained and now that
were emotional and not like angry and so
forth hopefully usually so for them it's
a religion in other words they believe
that the Buddha was a bit a good person
perhaps enlightened whatever they think
enlightenment might mean they have
filled them in a day's Buddhism never
took people's abilities away from them
but it just D absolute eyes them
relativized them made them maybe less
fanatical or attempted to and so for
them it's definitely religion you have
to say but was Buddha's main purpose to
founder religion I don't really think so
he more was rebelling against the Veda
what I conveyed ISM which believe that
Veda was the Word of God they followed
priests injunctions and they didn't
consider that you retinol II had to
somehow understand it and so he rebelled
against that the Buddha did and he felt
a human being could understand their
world and their reality and he was
definitely tried to do so and he felt
vitally that he was successful but in in
the way ironically in succeeding he said
what exceeded its what succeeds his
experience you can own you can
experience your understanding becomes
experience realistic experience and then
then you're really in touch with reality
let's say
and unfortunately that the wave reality
is is beyond encapsulation in any theory
series are useful however as part of it
in giving you an orientation toward
developing valid experience but
ultimately experience rules and in the
modern world where religions are all
rubbing up against each other in the
same cities the same communities the
same towns and where religious pluralism
seems to be the only social practice
that is in a way conducive to social
harmony therefore in such kind of multi
religious societies then the leaders of
Buddhism that I most respect and I think
are most reasonable in relation to the
modern the reality of modern societies
like the Dalai Lama who say that they
don't want to convert you to Buddhism
and it's not necessary to try to convert
each other and and he requests he deeply
implores Christians and Muslims and
Hindus and the Daoists if he had met
more of them not to try to convert
people to their theory and actually we
should be imploring secularists not to
try to convert people to their
materialist theory but rather see what
good things they have achieved with
their different theories and share them
and let other people adopt them without
necessarily having to enter into the
body of those theorists or sort of some
some membership you could say in in
another religion or convert to that
religion or convert to the anti religion
religion of secularism whatever it is
that would be preferable that we don't
do that with each other and instead we
offer the services that the Buddhist
Sciences have elaborated that could be
helpful possibly to us in our scientific
approach toward the nature of reality
that is to say our activity focused on
seeking to know what is real and
differentiated from what is unreal and
to develop wisdom which ultimately is
scientific wisdom in the sense of its
reality oriented wisdom
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