I ask the question in the context of the Darwin “debate”.
I wonder if there are religions that do not necessarily want to offer an explanation for what surrounds us and where it comes from …
I note that religions that do this and resist scientific insights about the origin in a “medieval” way.
Answer
No, Buddhism does not have a creation story. For the Buddhists, everything (the entire universe) is one cyclical movement without end or beginning (Samsara = The Wheel of Becoming).
But Buddhism is also not a religion in the strict sense of the word:
– Buddhists do not believe in a God;
– Buddhists do not believe in a Soul;
– Buddhists do not believe in a monad of consciousness separate from the body.
Buddhists are monists in the true sense of the word, not like many western monists.
In Western monism we distinguish the materialists, for whom everything is matter, and the idealists, for whom everything is spirit. In my opinion, these are disguised forms of dualism, because they continue to distinguish between spirit and matter.
For a Buddhist, mind and matter are one. For Buddhists there are six senses: smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing and mind.
In fact, as a spiritual tradition, Buddhism most closely responds to science, as Einstein himself put it: “I believe that the religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion most in line with the needs of science is Buddhism. .”
Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr also endorsed that statement.
If I may recommend a book: “L’infini dans la paume de la main” (translated as “Infinitely close”) by Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan. An absolute must, eye and mind opener.
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license D’haenen Johan
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