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**Yyaqyped** · 09-07-2011, 02:55 PM

Superstition and blind faith have been around for centuries in all religions and Buddhism certainly isn't somehow immune, westerners are encouraged to take on the whole package of cultural add-ons .

The power of the imagination can be awesome too and even affect people physically - such as Christians getting stigmata on their hands and feet, visits from the archangel Michael, the Virgin Mary, and so on - and believing there's an afterlife.
In fact there have been incidents in the past in Catholic communities where children have "seen" the Virgin Mary if I remember correctly.

09-07-2011, 02:55 PM	#12
Yyaqyped Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 469 Senior Member	Superstition and blind faith have been around for centuries in all religions and Buddhism certainly isn't somehow immune, westerners are encouraged to take on the whole package of cultural add-ons . The power of the imagination can be awesome too and even affect people physically - such as Christians getting stigmata on their hands and feet, visits from the archangel Michael, the Virgin Mary, and so on - and believing there's an afterlife. In fact there have been incidents in the past in Catholic communities where children have "seen" the Virgin Mary if I remember correctly.
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