At 02:31 AM 11/28/2002 +0000, H. T. wrote: >>"Steven Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: >> >> >>Rubbish. Anyone who has even studied Japanese karate knows that there is >>belief in, and certainly reverence for, superhuman powers in Buddhism. >>Indeed, Buddhism, more than any other region that comes to mind, is all >>*about* supernatural powers, revering them, and how to get them for yourself. > > >Really? And though I have to agree about the "supernatural" powers thing, >or at least about Buddhist believing in them, Uh...that was my entire point. > >The only place I can think of where Buddhism would be about super-natrual >powers and how to "revering them, and how to get them for yourself..." >would be in the belief in karma, Just so. And I'm really curious about how you're going to come up with a definition of the rebirth of the human soul that doesn't involve the supernatural. Remember, this part of the discussion revolved around my claim that the word "religion" implies the belief in something superhuman, and some else's claim that, by this definition, Buddhism is not a religion. I insist that, by this definition, it is. That's my only claim on this issue.