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**DEMassteers** · 05-20-2011, 06:16 AM

I think asking a buddhist if he or she prays is sort of like asking a fish if he pees in his drinking water.
I mean that in a nice way.

Lol, not clear about your meaning there, a fish does indeed pee in his drinking water - but some Buddhists pray and some don't ! I was curious because as a Tibetan Buddhist I used to pray myself - there were prayers to gurus of the lineage, to the 35 Buddhas, to all the Buddha's and Bodhisattva's of the 10 directions and so on.

These days apart from meditation I do a little chanting occasionally, which is what I'd call affirmations or recollections, such as the Metta Sutta for example.

I was just interested in what others members did or didn't do !

05-20-2011, 06:16 AM	#19
DEMassteers Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 453 Senior Member	I think asking a buddhist if he or she prays is sort of like asking a fish if he pees in his drinking water. I mean that in a nice way. Lol, not clear about your meaning there, a fish does indeed pee in his drinking water - but some Buddhists pray and some don't ! I was curious because as a Tibetan Buddhist I used to pray myself - there were prayers to gurus of the lineage, to the 35 Buddhas, to all the Buddha's and Bodhisattva's of the 10 directions and so on. These days apart from meditation I do a little chanting occasionally, which is what I'd call affirmations or recollections, such as the Metta Sutta for example. I was just interested in what others members did or didn't do !
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