Mack Paul, The Norman Transcript: Buddhism is not a religion in the usual sense. There is not a God to believe in.
Some Buddhists believe in reincarnation and karma although neither are central to the faith. The Buddha said that he taught one thing only, “suffering and the end of suffering.”
Buddhist practice developed from their observation that human existence is characterized by the experience, dissatisfaction, impermanence and a shifting sense of self that is unsatisfactory and impermanent. This makes for a potentially bleak view of the human condition.
We want to believe in progress. We want to believe that if we get …
