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Old 11-19-2011, 08:35 AM   #5
tooratrack

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Welcome David,

Buddhism has become a huge body of different traditions, schools, faiths with rituals, temples, offerings quite similar -in its surface- to many other religions.

Some believe in reincarnation. Others in rebirth. And others do not hold any of both as something important for the practice of the teachings of Buddha.

Buddha was a teacher. He left a teaching to be followed and to be experienced. The experience is about a peaceful mind, a happy life and joyful existence.

There is no sin. There is no God. There is nobody looking at us.

What is there is the mind that hates, that craves and that hold to wrong views which result is the experience of stress and suffering in different levels.

It is important to go to the very basic knowledge about what the Buddha taught.

Here you can find a good introduction to what the Buddha left us as his teaching.

And no, I do not think you are immoral to approach Buddhism.

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