23 January 2009

Buddhism

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We visited Sarnath today, the birthplace of Buddhism. Being an atheist myself, I'm fairly open to suggestions when it comes to faith and Religion. There are various excavated monasteries, temples and museums here all with plaques describing aspects of the Buddhist religion. One of which described Enlightenment as "An empty state of mind". We then visited the Bodhi tree under which Buddha first reached enlightenment and I'm now fairly confident I may have reached it myself in GCSE Religious Education circa 2001. Due to this discovery I am now 98% atheist, 2% Buddhist.

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