Michael Alliman
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

I think there’s a lot of truth in what you said. At their core, I find, is a search for happiness (and, so, by definition, we are driven to find happiness by the current state of our unhappiness). Some promise eternal happiness “after the fact”. I now realize, even though at one time I would have “preached” the opposite, that this kind of belief system requires an awful lot of magical thinking and twisted behaviors. (e.g. the suppression of “others”, be they of a different “tribe”, gender, or, god-forbid, religion.)

I now have to consider Everything that is True, is God. So, God is What Is. Hence, as the goal of Buddhism is to see what is actually true, then the path to that Truth must lead to What Is True (God). (Some of my Buddhist brethren will no-doubt feel uncomfortable with that description, but it works for me for now.)

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