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**nikolapegayyyaasss** · 07-29-2011, 03:24 AM

Thanks for the link, it made sense so it's not that you believe fully in Buddha himself but more his teachings which seem to make sense, is that right?...

Yes, and more important than making sense, the practices produce the results they promise when I put them into practice.

it's hard for me to believe that we control everything in our lives without the help of some outside force? I don't think we really control all that much. Dependent co-arising is complicated, but it suggests the idea that phenomena arise when certain conditions are met, regardless of one's will. The outside forces described by physics are sufficient to explain everything I've witnessed.

Peace.

07-29-2011, 03:24 AM	#15
nikolapegayyyaasss Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 447 Senior Member	Thanks for the link, it made sense so it's not that you believe fully in Buddha himself but more his teachings which seem to make sense, is that right?... Yes, and more important than making sense, the practices produce the results they promise when I put them into practice. it's hard for me to believe that we control everything in our lives without the help of some outside force? I don't think we really control all that much. Dependent co-arising is complicated, but it suggests the idea that phenomena arise when certain conditions are met, regardless of one's will. The outside forces described by physics are sufficient to explain everything I've witnessed. Peace.
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