Humanist Society
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Originally posted by Aneslayer:
Which means that you did not realise the core of buddhism.
FINISHED still speaks Rubbish?
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Originally posted by I No Stupid:
FINISHED still speaks Rubbish?
What rubbish? U mad?
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Originally posted by I No Stupid:
Members of this society believed in a "human-centred" life. This is a philosophy that humanists say affirms human beings as having the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape their own lives without turning to the supernatural. It promotes an ethical life based on reason, tolerance and compassion. It also says that all knowledge must be derived from evidence and reasoning.
Is Buddhism humanist?
According to Buddhism, all living beings aspire to well-being and have the same right to be happy. All aspire to be free of misery and have the same right not to suffer. Of course all those aspirations and rights have a universal value, of which Buddhism cultivates and Humanism extols in principle. So the nature and effectiveness of Humanism’s beliefs/manifestos, as well as those of Buddhism, needs to be personally examined in terms of whether they promote or hinder those basic rights.
In this regard, Buddhism is quite unequivocal as it relates to other religions, sciences, ideas, theories and postulations, as the Buddhist attitude is to accept all valid knowledge and to relinquish whatever has been proven wrong. It is this way that Buddhism has no difficulty in modifying the way it perceives relative or conventional truth, and may share more common ground than not with that of Humanism.