Can The World Survive Without Religion (Yes or No) A Hindu P (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, December 03, 2010, 13:57 (4914 days ago) @ satyansh

I've recently read portions of "Bhagavad Gita as it Is." If this author is representing hinduism, he's abdicating our right to free will. "Anyone who thinks he is not controlled is insane," the author says in the introduction. Everything is predetermined...-That is NOT like Buddhism at all. Though keep in mind I practiced Buddhism from the vietmanese/Japanese perspective that throws out everything but meditative practice, highly minimal.-I share your view that philosophically, eastern religions are certainly more balanced, yet I hate it when people say that ALL people seek religion, god, whatever. I do not. I live by my own philosophy, and do not care for cosmic appeals outside of fascination for culture. I revere only man's intellect and free will as objects worthy of enshrinement, however odd this might sound. I recognize that whatever truth might exist, I am limited to a material body in a material world, with a similarly rooted perspective that isn't easy to dislodge. -With all due respect, Shakyamuni founded his religion on the principle that mysticism and materialism were two extremes, and that neither was wholly correct. Thus Buddhism was born. It is in this light of perspectivism that Nietzcshe founded his own school.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"