In Reply to: Gautama's Reality Check posted by OT2 on July 12, 2005 at 14:00:01:
I had bunked Buddhism before joining TF & all the Asian selfdevelopment-trips...basically, although they try to get away from it, the teachings are quite egocentrical & there's no help from above they really know of in Buddhism, may be demons who hinder them...but in this instance I see nothing wrong with the thought, that wrong teachings cause you to suffer.B. sought a way out for man from all this suffering...I found the real help through Jesus...but even in Christianity you have to start through metanoia, repentence = a re-thinking...
Often I feel , that some basic truth you find in other civilization, who didn't see the light yet, but who got some glimpse from whatever lightbearer...if you know what I mean..