Believing is pointless when that which is believed is untrue. Even more when it is true. That is not an attempt to sound " Zenny"...its just a fact. Buddhadhamma and belief systems are incompatible. I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by "believe" here. I suspect you mean ...

OK - another question: do Secular Buddhists (collectively or individually) tend to believe in powers such as the ability to read minds? I don't, as the evidence for it is fairly poor so far. I can agree with that, but my recent understanding is that it is a subtle but powerful effect. Yeah - there ...

Buckwheat wrote:OK - another question: do Secular Buddhists (collectively or individually) tend to believe in powers such as the ability to read minds?

I don't, as the evidence for it is fairly poor so far.

A Difficult Pill: The Problem with Stephen Batchelor and Buddhism’s New Rationalists The article seems to make similar mistakes concerning epistemology and the philosophy of science that I see most Christian apologists make: it somehow takes for granted that a scientific worldview is necessarily ma...

Quite a fast-paced thread! As a self-identifying secular Buddhist, I saw a couple of specific questions a few pages back that I am capable of addressing, so I thought I'd put my two cents in: It's good to call out the hierarchial distinctions in the interests of clarity, and of anyone who identifies...

It seems that many of you folks have more in common with ancient Indian materialists than you do with any form of Buddhism. Why not just say that you are materialists who practice meditation? As a self-identified secular Buddhist, I'd answer this in a few ways. Firstly, the place I know in the Sutt...