Are There Gods In Buddhism Or Not?
July 25th, 2009Are there gods in Buddhism? Many people are under the mistaken impression that practices of the philosophy worship Buddha. While he did come up with the philosophy they don’t actually worship him.
They believe that EVERYTHING is god…
This is because they claim everything comes from one energy source…and that one energy source is responsible for the creation and existence of everything. According to them everything is part of that energy and therefore is “god”.
What do “gods” in Buddhism mean?
It certainly doesn’t mean an All Supreme God like in Christianity…it simply describes anything that comes from that energy—which of course is everything. According to their teachings, there can’t be a separate God because everything is connected.
So how do they believe the world was created?
Do they believe in evolution or the big bang theory?
Buddha’s response
He said that trying to answer this question is pointless because the main point of the philosophy is how to end suffering by becoming enlightened–not understand the origins of the world. Since answering this question did not further the quest for enlightenment it was pointless to even attempt to tackle it.
So to wrap it up…
There are gods in Buddhism…EVERYTHING.
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