Buddhist and ancestor worship?

[Óttar]

you are hindu?

Insofar as I am a Shakta bhakta (Sanskrit. "devotee"). Yes.

what do you believe about afterlife,is there some old belief about afterlife,and souls among your people as well? or you 100% into reincarnation

I believe in reincarnation as a distinct possibility, and I haven't ruled out an afterlife, nor have I ruled out the possibility that I will simply cease to exist with my natural death. Ancient "paganism" and Hinduism was / is more concerned with what one did (the performance of rites) rather than what one believed. Even people who held what to a modern person would seem like an atheistic position, they would explain the apparent lack of the gods' direct influence on the world by saying that the gods were unconcerned with material creation rather than maintaining that the gods simply didn't exist. They did this because the gods were an integral, inseparable part of their culture and to maintain overt atheism would be contrary to cosmic order; called Dharma in Sanskrit, nomos in the Greek, and Mos Maiorum ("Way of Ancestors") in the Latin.

I cannot be sure of a direct transmigration of a differentiated soul (Sanskrit. Jeeva), but I believe that all things are interconnected through consciousness and insomuch as consciousness is said to have neither beginning nor end I believe in Atman (Self, soul, etc. what Transcendentalists would call the "Oversoul") as identical with Brahman (Sanskrit. "Absolute Principle") not to be confused with the creator god Brahma. This is a philosophical position (darshana, "viewpoint") called Advaita Vedanta or Non-dualism.

I cannot be sure that I will not awaken to consciousness again, nor if there is a connection between my new personality and my previous one.

[arcticwolf]

No, there is no ancestor worship, or any worship in Buddhism. In Japan it's Shinto you mean, Buddhism has nothing to do with Shinto.

There are no believes in Buddhism. Reincarnation is Hinduism. There is no soul concept in Buddhism.

Sweetheart, since when are you interested in Buddhism?

Are you hitting on me?

[Hurrem sultana]

No, there is no ancestor worship, or any worship in Buddhism. In Japan it's Shinto you mean, Buddhism has nothing to do with Shinto.

There are no believes in Buddhism. Reincarnation is Hinduism. There is no soul concept in Buddhism.

Sweetheart, since when are you interested in Buddhism?

Are you hitting on me?

Well you can google it,buddhist are very into ancestor worship,in china ,japan,vietnam etc...i know what true buddhism teaches,but not many people practice true buddhism


LOL yes i decided to do that

[Óttar]

I find it funny how people just dismiss the folk elements in Buddhism. It's like the Pali Text Society that deleted whole sections of the Pali canon because they thought it was too superstitious.

[Hurrem sultana]

I find it funny how people just dismiss the folk elements in Buddhism. It's like the Pali Text Society that deleted whole sections of the Pali canon because they thought it was too superstitious.

Buddhism in my opinion is not even a religion,i mean budhism in its pure strict form

[arcticwolf]

Well you can google it,buddhist are very into ancestor worship,in china ,japan,vietnam etc...i know what true buddhism teaches,but not many people practice true buddhism


LOL yes i decided to do that

Good decision! lol

There are two main branches in Buddhism Theravada and Mahayana. Theravada aim's to be as close to Buddha's teachings as possible. Mahayana, and it's variants as practiced in China, Tibet, Japan, Vietnam do have some other elements absent in puristic Buddhism. In pure Buddhism there is no worship, no even Buddha is worshipped. Those practices are local and not Buddhist. I also think this is more of a appreciation than worship.

If you wanna know Theravada teachings I can point you in the right direction I am not very familiar with Mahayana.

There is no reincarnation in buddhism there is the idea of rebirth.

[Hurrem sultana]

Good decision! lol

There are two main branches in Buddhism Theravada and Mahayana. Theravada aim's to be as close to Buddha's teachings as possible. Mahayana, and it's variants as practiced in China, Tibet, Japan, Vietnam do have some other elements absent in puristic Buddhism. In pure Buddhism there is no worship, no even Buddha is worshipped. Those practices are local and not Buddhist. I also think this is more of a appreciation than worship.

If you wanna know Theravada teachings I can point you in the right direction I am not very familiar with Mahayana.

There is no reincarnation in buddhism there is the idea of rebirth.

Which countries practice the Therevada teachings then?

And what is the difference between reincarnation and rebirth?

[arcticwolf]

Which countries practice the Therevada teachings then?

And what is the difference between reincarnation and rebirth?

Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and partially Vietnam I think.

Reincarnation is an unmutable soul moving between forms, rebirth is causes becoming effects without anything permanent moving from one form to another.

What's up with your interest in Buddhism? It's a lot easier to watch food channel.