BuddhaNet - Worldwide Buddhist Information and Education Network. :: Buddhist Society UK :: Buddhism, Dharma talks, Zen, Tibetan, Theravada, Meditation, Buddhist Library, Buddhist Teachings. Learning Center - Engaged practice. Engaged practice Buddhadasa Bhikkhu The Middle Way Life in a World of Polarity What's Buddhist about Socially Engaged Buddhism David Loy The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism Thich Nhat Hanh Dharma for Healing the World Joanna Macy New Voices in Engaged Buddhist Studies Kenneth Kraft Engaged Buddhism Joan Halifax Roshi Practices for Activists Joanna Macy Rules of Engagement Kazuaki Tanahashi In Engaged Buddhism, Peace Begins with You Thich Nhat Hahn interview Comprehensive Bibliography - Socially Engaged Buddhism Buddhist Peace Fellowshio (compiled by Donald Rothberg - 2005) Justify Your Love: Finding Authority for Socially Engaged Buddhism: Ways of Relating Buddhist Tradition and Practice with Social Theory Diana Winston How Shall We Save the World?
Nelson Foster Can Buddhism Save the World? A Response to Nelson Foster David R. Loy Socially Engaged Buddhism & Modernity: What Sort of Animals are They? Groups Buddhism and Ecology: Challenge and Promise Donald K. Ethics Hospice Dr. Digital Library. Buddhism and the God-idea. Do Buddhists believe in a god? No, we do not. There are several reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origins in fear. The Buddha says: Gripped by fear people go to sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.
Primitive humans found selves in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes were constantly with them. The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a god is that the belief is not necessary. But if there are no gods how did the universe get here?
All religions have myths and stories which attempt to answer this question. What does the Buddha say about the origin of the universe? Not so.