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**Gorlummm** · 04-22-2012, 01:35 AM

In the Theravada Buddhism that I have been practising for more than 30 years I have yet to find or read about a " god ".

The Buddah stated that there are no gods and he certainly wasn't a god.

How about this sutta in the Pali Canon then ?

When the Wheel of Truth had thus been set rolling by the Blessed One, the earthgods raised the cry: "At Benares, in the Deer Park at Isipatana, the matchless Wheel of truth has been set rolling by the Blessed One, not to be stopped by monk or divine or god or death-angel or high divinity or anyone in the world."

On hearing the earth-gods' cry, all the gods in turn in the six paradises of the sensual sphere took up the cry till it reached beyond the Retinue of High Divinity in the sphere of pure form. And so indeed in that hour, at that moment, the cry soared up to the World of High Divinity, and this ten-thousandfold world-element shook and rocked and quaked, and a great measureless radiance surpassing the very nature of the gods was displayed in the world.

(SN 56.11 - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting Rolling the Wheel of Truth)

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....011.nymo.html

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04-22-2012, 01:35 AM	#24
Gorlummm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 444 Senior Member	In the Theravada Buddhism that I have been practising for more than 30 years I have yet to find or read about a " god ". The Buddah stated that there are no gods and he certainly wasn't a god. How about this sutta in the Pali Canon then ? When the Wheel of Truth had thus been set rolling by the Blessed One, the earthgods raised the cry: "At Benares, in the Deer Park at Isipatana, the matchless Wheel of truth has been set rolling by the Blessed One, not to be stopped by monk or divine or god or death-angel or high divinity or anyone in the world." On hearing the earth-gods' cry, all the gods in turn in the six paradises of the sensual sphere took up the cry till it reached beyond the Retinue of High Divinity in the sphere of pure form. And so indeed in that hour, at that moment, the cry soared up to the World of High Divinity, and this ten-thousandfold world-element shook and rocked and quaked, and a great measureless radiance surpassing the very nature of the gods was displayed in the world. (SN 56.11 - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting Rolling the Wheel of Truth) http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....011.nymo.html .
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