[hackernewds]

Hot take -- religion is a Western concept that formed the basis of a strategy for colonialism. The latest Dune movie references this well.

Buddhism as a lived experience is a set of guidelines and practices that direct a way of living. Ask folks from India as well and they will say Hinduism is a way of life and that is their "dharma".

The word "dharma" itself is often used as a translation for the religion, however it is closest to duty. And a Hindu will often follow practices from both Hinduism and Buddhism because ultimately they aren't in conflict and religion isn't meant to be identity. If you follow it as such, there is nothing to avoid.

[giraffe_lady]

> Buddhism as a lived experience is a set of guidelines and practices that direct a way of living.

Pretty much all sincerely religious people would describe their religion in these terms, including christians.

Buddhism and hinduism are certainly religions as well, especially when you look at the culturally embedded practice of them in asian cultures. "Only able to respect religions that they can consider not really religions" is a whole type of guy you find a lot on the internet. But globally it's a very fringe extreme minority kind of religious experience.

You can just value and respect religious experience, even though or, radically for this venue, perhaps because they are religion.

[dudinax]

There are millions of people who believe in a super natural religion "Buddhism" who know almost nothing about the philosophy of it.

[thinkingemote]

There's a body of thought that agrees. it says that at root it's the definition of the distinction between religion and the non religion. In defining what a religion is we define what it is not.

State Vs religion for example. How should religions affect a secular society. I'm not sure but it kind of started explicitly around the first millennium AD but some see the seeds before that embedded within from the beginning.

[p3rls]

I had to check to make sure I wasn't on reddit. And the Dune tie-in!@!

Superb! Chef's kiss