Everyone is doing their best...

[fortunateboy]

Hi everyone. Just stumbled on this site and it appears to be one of the most civil and thoughtful of the religious debate sites I've come across.

I love religion - thinking about it, talking about it and practicing it. I've been a student of religion since I was 16 and I'm pushing 50 now.

I have settled on Tibetan Buddhism as my religion of choice, but I also read scriptures and commentary on other paths and derive much inspiration, and surprisingly, confirmation of my chosen path from this extracurricular study. I suppose this is because of the similarities between the various paths.

I was talking to my teacher one day and telling him about how our daughter was exhibiting an interest in Buddhism. His reply I found very interesting: "That's nice. But more important than being a Buddhist is that she grows up to be a compassionate person, a kind person, a loving person." I found this to be wise counsel, and confirmation of something I've always thought, that everyone is doing their best, and in the big scheme of things, that's good enough.

Comments?

[otseng]

Welcome to the forum. I'm glad you consider this site to be one of the most civil sites on debating religion. If I start a collection of testimonies of this site, mind if I quote you?

Since your topic doesn't really have a debate question and it's more geared toward an introduction of yourself, I'll be moving this to the chat subforum.

However, feel free to start a thread in the "Other Religions" subforum to debate specific points of Buddhism. Or perhaps other member could start one.

[Amphigorey]

Fortunateboy,
I would be interested in hearing why you chose Tibetan Buddhism as opposed to another form of Buddhism.

Please start a Buddist thread in the Other Religions section.

[fortunateboy]

OK - I'll give it a shot. See my answer to your question soon in the new Buddhist thread.