hey i have a question in my mind for a long time, if all the statues in the world you guys worships at are all destroyed, then how do you worship ? can you draw a picture and worship that picture?
Cuz things always happen, might not happen now, but doesn't mean it won't happen.
Plz be honest to bottom of Ur heart people who ever is answering.
YEEEP, but Catholic is Catholic, Christian is Christian, Real Christian knows that God is spirit, no one know how he looks like, CZ He is God, only the spirit like self in our self!
right "Nameme", what would catholics do if Jesus's picture are all burned, AGREE
The statues are just statues. We build them because they look cool. It's just art. We do not believe in god/s, but a theist can be a Buddhist too. Deities are just not important to us.
Hey look at that... you just learned your first lesson on Buddhism.
What if all the Jesus pictures were burned? What do you think the Catholics would do?
HINDUISM:
It is quite versatile. The ultimate Goal is not idol worship but to merge in God consciousness.
You will be surprised to know that Hindus themselves drown their idols of Mother Godess after the end of Navaratri and of Lord Ganesha at the end of Ganesh Chaturthi.
For many decades, the world of psychology was primarily described by the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud, who created the model for conscious and unconscious that is still the basic foundation for most psychology today (although we no longer use the concepts of ego, superego and id). Therefore, through much of 20Th Century, most psychologists described themselves as "Freudians". This does not mean they worshiped Freud; only that they recognized him as the source of their approach to psychology.
In a similar way, Buddhism is not actually a religion. Yes, it has become institutionalized, and many within the institution have since added on religious trappings, and the uneducated in Asian countries (who were the majority of the population 2500 years ago, even 500 years ago) who wished to worship a higher power who might help them, took to the idea very well. But, at heart, Buddha and Buddhism does not teach about worship.
Buddhism teaches about the nature of suffering and how to become free of suffering. Period.
And becoming free can only be done by ones self ... there is no higher power that can do it for you. Therefore, the question of whether of not a higher power exists is not relevant to the goals of Buddhism. And, therefore, worship is not relevant to the practice of, or goals of, Buddhism.
However, just as psychologists revere and honor Dr. Freud, so too do Buddhists honor the man who was given the title of "Buddha" ("Enlightened One", "Awakened One"). Buddha was a man who attained enlightenment through his own efforts. He is not the only man to have reached Buddhahood, but he is the source of our teachings. We, too, have Buddha-nature as our essential nature, and therefore have the ability to attain enlightenment -- only through our own efforts, as there is no outside power that can do it for us.
Therefore (thank you for reading this far) ... we do not worship an image, or even the man himself. But we do hold the concept of Buddha-nature uppermost in our mind, statue or no statue, picture or no picture, because finding our own inner Buddha-nature (awakened-nature) is the goal of doing our Buddhism practice.
question for Buddhism or Hinduism etc followers!?
