Tag: Religion

Portsmouth Buddhist Center
Portsmouth Buddhist Center

'Religion Without God'

By viriyalila on Fri, 28 Sep, 2012 - 18:26

'Religion Without God'

By viriyalila on Fri, 28 Sep, 2012 - 18:26‘Religion Without God’, an exciting series planned for our October Sangha Nights.

This October we’ll be looking at how you can have a full spiritual life as a 21st Century American without recourse to blind faith or setting yourself against the rational world we find ourselves in. The Buddha faced some of the same dilemmas as us in India in 500 BCE, and we face some new challenges with 2500 years of culture and experience in between his...
London Buddhist Centre
London Buddhist Centre

Respectable

By Viryanaga on Tue, 10 Jul, 2012 - 14:38

Respectable

By Viryanaga on Tue, 10 Jul, 2012 - 14:38One danger of any spiritual movement is to become respectable - to behave how others expect you to, to fit into the cultural norms of a particular time and place. The Buddha wasn’t respectable - he challenged the conventions of his day, and challenged people to change.

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