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I've done a lot of drugs , and am over it and focusing on studying and buddhism and my goals now.I'm a hardcore humanist and pacifist. I mildly dig existentialism, but think zen buddhism has more depth.

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some do, in some ways, but generally this is not the case, and the core of Buddhism is simply "Do as The Historical Buddha did and you'll be much better off" Yes there are claims of all sorts of miraculous things there, but the core of it isn't. Zen Buddhism is famous for its total lack of divinity.

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I also appreciate the last line about Buddhism and science. From what I've read about Zen Buddhism in particular, there is more in common with science than religion.

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would you date a buddhist?

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The only sects of Buddhism at all that believe in enlightenment, that I know of, is Pure Land Buddhism, and Rinzai Sect Zen Buddhism. In Soto Zen Buddhism, and many others, enlightenment does not exist, because in oreder to attain true enlightenment, one must therefore achieve the absolute opposite

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Some religions are more correct than others.

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"Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit.Zen Buddhism: Shit is, and is not.Zen Buddhism #2: What is the sound of shit happening?

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Some religions are more correct than others.

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"Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit.Zen Buddhism: Shit is, and is not.Zen Buddhism #2: What is the sound of shit happening?

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Theravadin Buddhism and Zen. There's nothing at all "conservative" about Zen, which is in fact the most "liberal" of any form of Buddhism, being essentially Taoism by another name. Thailand in particular has a really fucked Buddhist caste system, where monks are the only first class citizens.

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Zen Buddhism, is at the other end of the spectrum from anything spiritual.Secondly, I have seen no explosions in Buddhism in the U.S. at all, including in the NYC area, which is the place that seems to spear-head religious fads. 5 of the 30 members of my zendo are American, 3 of which served

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