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morpheus:
gak ada forum buat membahas hubungan agama buddha dengan agama lainnya, jadi topik ini saya taro di sini aja...

gimana kalo anda memberikan tanggapan buat artikel di bawah. point2 kuncinya saya tebelin.
jawaban paling cool, paling cerdas dan paling mengena akan mendapat hadiah indomie dari.... suhu sumedho ;D


Why I stopped following Buddha and started following ?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aiia/aiia-buddhism-harris.html

I came to the Buddhist path as a seeker. I was skeptical about religious claims, but felt a deep void in my life. I yearned for meaning and truth in a unpredictable and often hostile world. In Buddhism, I thought I had found what I was searching for.

Buddhists has never started a war. There was never a Buddhist Inquisition. They emphasized wisdom, compassion, lovingkindness, and personal transformation. And they certainly never threatened me with eternity in a lake of fire.

But it was not meant to be. That deep void in my life? It was what has often been described as a “God-shaped vacuum”—the emptiness that only God can fill. We are His creation, made in His image. He intends for us to have a relationship with Him and, when we are without Him, we feel empty and alone. No matter how long I meditated or what teachings I read, I could not fill this emptiness in my life. For in Buddhism, there is no sovereign, loving Creator.

True, some Buddhists purport to believe in a god, or in a realm of higher beings called devas. Others pray to statues of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). But as a whole, Buddhism is not a theistic religion. It has a law—the law of karma—but no lawgiver.

According to the Buddhist worldview, all beings accumulate karma based on their actions, and karma dictates their life circumstances. When a person dies, the karma accumulated in that lifetime (and all previous lives) determines his or her lot in the next life.

To many Buddhists, this means that a person born into a wealthy family has good karma, while someone who lives in a poor, disease-infested village would have accumulated negative karma.

Buddhists believe karma keeps one trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth (samsara), and the only way out is through enlightenment. To become enlightened, one has to eliminate desire. Buddha taught that desire is the root of suffering; that it causes attachment, which leads to suffering, and in turn causes other beings to suffer. This produces negative karma. If one eliminates desire and stops causing suffering, one can become enlightened, as he had.

But eventually I began to question. Who or what had set this law of karma in motion? Who judged these beings' actions and sentenced them to another life of pain? Why were beings punished for actions they would be unable to remember? Was desire always a bad thing? Wasn't the desire for enlightenment still desire? If so, how could one ever attain enlightenment?

So I strayed from the Buddhist path, the emptiness within me greater than before. I began to examine the claims of  of Nazareth in a new light, laying aside the biases and prejudices that had caused me to dismiss Him as merely a “great human teacher.” The more I searched, the more I came to believe that there was a sovereign God who loved me and that  was who He claimed to be—the Son of Man, fully human and fully God. I accepted Christ into my heart.

In doing so, I now feel that I've found true enlightenment—through a personal relationship with my Creator.

What's more, I discovered that what I had sought through the Buddhist path—wisdom, compassion, and lovingkindness—were found in the life and teachings of  Christ. The supreme act of compassion was His sacrifice on the cross—that while we were still sinners, He died for us.

No human alive could ever demonstrate this kind of unselfish, unconditional love. No human can match God's divine mercy and lovingkindness, no matter how long we meditate or what books we've read. Yet we must try, for when we receive Christ, we become a new creation and begin the process of becoming Christ-like. The apostle John wrote. “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked” (1 John 2:6, KNJV).

If this kind of personal transformation is not enlightenment, I do not know what is. To me, having a personal relationship with God and the assurance of salvation brings true peace. And it's ours if we but ask for it!

Author: Mary Joni Harris. Text supplied by AIIA Institute.

Joni studied Buddhist teachings independently for three years, having been drawn by Buddhism's emphasis on peace, knowledge, and self-awareness. She first contacted AIIA in August of 2002, having read and related to our Web-posted article, Ten Questions I'd Ask If I Could Interview Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) Today. Today Joni is a Christian. She attends Denton (TX) Community Church. She plans to graduate from Texas Woman's University in August 2003 with a B.A. in English and then begin graduate study in the Fall.

Kokuzo:
pemula coba jawab ya, itung" belajar...


--- Quote ---Was desire always a bad thing? Wasn't the desire for enlightenment still desire? If so, how could one ever attain enlightenment?
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enligthment disini nibbana ya?
yup keinginan apapun itu tetaplah keinginan...
jika ada satu saja keinginan, maka masih mlekat...
Nibbana tidak dicapai melalui keinginan, nibbana tercapai dengan sendirinya ketika mampu melepas semua keinginan... ada perbedaan mencoba melepas dan benar" melepas... mencoba melepas masih terikat oleh keinginan, mengendalikan diri, mencoba, ketika tidak tercapai akan menimbulkan kekecewaan dan perasaan negatif lainnya... kalo melepas tidak mengendalikan dan tidak dikendalikan...


--- Quote ---What's more, I discovered that what I had sought through the Buddhist path—wisdom, compassion, and lovingkindness—were found in the life and teachings of  Christ.
--- End quote ---

so what?
kalo ada persamaan apakah berarti sama? Buddha ada 500 tahun sebelum Yesus, jikalau ada persamaan? Pikirin sendiri  :P


--- Quote ---The supreme act of compassion was His sacrifice on the cross—that while we were still sinners, He died for us.
--- End quote ---

dimana letak bukti bahwa semua dosa manusia dihapus?
ok, singkirkan pertanyaan ini, karena bagi yang beriman pada Beliau buktinya jelas ada, sedangkan bagi yang non-kr****n, tidak akan pernah ada bukti akan hal ini...
terlepas dari bukti terhapus tidaknya dosa manusia, yang pasti adalah kenyataannya sampai sekarang manusia masih terus berbuat dosa/kejahatan... then ask why.....  :)


--- Quote ---No human alive could ever demonstrate this kind of unselfish, unconditional love. .
--- End quote ---

pernah denger yang namanya Mother Theresa? Mahatma Gandhi?
bahkan ada cerita Buddhis bercerita manusia yang merelakan dirinya dimakan harimau kelaparan? kepada hewan aja udah gitu, apalagi manusia? cuma cerita? i can say that too...  ;D


--- Quote ---No human can match God's divine mercy and lovingkindness, no matter how long we meditate or what books we've read
--- End quote ---

how long have u been meditated?  ^-^
oh come on, op kors lah u cannot become lovingkindness person by reading books...
gw ga mau ngebahas konsep tuhan lebih jauh, bisa berabe kalo gw ngebahas tuhan  ;D

gimana Morphie?
mohon bimbingannya
_/\_

langitbiru:
walah.. i males nih buat jawabinnya  :P

alasannya ..krn menurut aku, ini cuman masalah kecocokan pandangan aja.
ajaran mana  yg akhirnya bener ato salah? who know? *yg jelas, i blm sampe*

jd ngapain skrg beragama buddha dunk?
krn skrg merasa ajaran Buddha menjawab banyak pertanyaan ttg hidup ini, dan stlh melaksanakannya mendapatkan hasil yg baik ;D

ryu:
Memang kesaksian seseorang pun bisa berbeda2. Sesuai dgn pengalaman masing2. Ada yg gara2 di beri indomie ama suhu sumedho pindah agama, ada yg pengalaman hdpnya di topang oleh agama itu, sehingga pandangan2/kesaksian seseorang bukanlah jadi acuan seseorang pindah agama dlm Buddhist, tdk seperti agama k yg kalau ada kesaksian ya di imani aja sehingga mempertebal iman dia.

Sukma Kemenyan:

--- Quote ---What's more, I discovered that what I had sought through the Buddhist path—wisdom, compassion, and lovingkindness—were found in the life and teachings of  Christ
--- End quote ---
wah... jadi pengen nyoba christ... (bolegh dong coba2x  ^-^)
tapi sayangnya...  NEVER EXIST

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