become a Buddhist

I’ve started listening to a series of podcasts, including Urban Dharma (only annoying part is the monk seems to repeat the same story every lesson, but it progresses a little), Buddhist Geeks and the Unfettered Mind, Unfettered Mind looks promising.
I’m also going to try and re-read the Books I read last time and write down what I learn.

I’m going to listen to the Dalai Lama teach in Germany at the end of July!

I’ve got a lot out of going to the meditation sessions with local Buddhist groups but there isn’t as much teaching as I’d like. So this will be amazing! I just love his outlook on life!

I’m not quite sure I can afford it but I’d rather go without lots of other stuff so I can do this and I will save as much as I can before the trip.

Life has been tough lately and the Buddhist philosophy has really calmed me and made me feel better about my situation.

I have a few books out of the library about to learn about it and am looking into meditation classes in my area.

I feel almost certain that this is the path for me. My only doubts are that I’m just at the beginning and I may change my mind when I learn more. But everything so far just sits “right” with me. It feeds into my other goals like wanting to live a positive, healthy, green, ethical life and is definitely a positive influence in my life.

I’ve always been against following religious rules, since I think that every religion is based on some moral rules that everyone should live as something that’s inside us.
Then I discovered that Buddhism is more that this. Is RESPECT.
Respect is one of the most important thing in my life.
You could say: “You don’t need a religion to be respectful.” I’ll answer:”Nobody should need a law not to kill people.”

OMG!!This is so hard..becoming a buddhist has alot of rules and i can’t remember alot of the stuff i need to kno..but i think it’s because i’m not applying it to my life and just trying to memorize everything. I’m going to retry and hopefully actually get somewhere again. The first time i really got into it and i was so “HAPPY” the happiest i have ever felt..i was more forgiving, patient, and HAPPY!! I want to become that person again and i miss that person..

I have been interested in this for a few months.. But, as usual, I find myself wasting time on pointless things intead of following what I should be doing. I want to be able to meditate daily and also read through a lot of writings. Wish me luck!

Im a practicioner of Nichiren Daishonen Buddhism, and i love it, ever since i was four or five(i wasnt a fortune baby or a baby born into the practice i started practicing after i came down from new york to south carolina). At first i hated it, mainly because i was forced to practice by my stepfather, but then as i became older i started to want to practice, without anyone telling me, and i would actually be dissapointed when i couldnt go to meetings because i would always feel better after i went, and im at the point now fifteen years later where i can truly feel it as a presence in my life, a positive one, i dont chant as much as i should or could but when i do, i feel great, it helps me to set my life on track, give my day focus, and ill always be greatful to my stepfather for that, (but not much else, im overjoyed he is no longer in my life) i fully encourage any and everyone to take on the challenge of becoming a practioner of the lotus sutra, and no, its not a cult bitches lolz

I’ve been reading bits and pieces on the buddanet website, for a while I read the e-books there cover to cover, and I made notes, but my computer crashed and I lost the notes. Info seems to go in one ear and out the other. Although I feel I have assimilated some of the ideas- such as change being something that we shouldn’t be scared off as its constant. Just writing that I realise that’s probably the very opposite of what I’ve been doing but I don’t how to put my fears to rest. I feel I have some of the concepts at an intellectual level but not at a practical or emotional one.

Other than that I bought a small Buddha and I will be beginning a meditation practice.

For years now I have been ‘Into’ Buddhism. I agree with all of the views and philosophies but have always fought shy of actually becoming one.

Part of this is because I am not particularly religous, in terms of ritual and performance but also because I see the Eightfold Path as being something that you either do or dont do and the doing of it is what to my mind really separates a practising Buddhist from someone who leans that way.

I also get fed up with all the mad stuff that goes on within it and the differences of opinion you know? In Tibet the problems between the Gelugs and Dorje Shugden stuff, The past indiscretions in Vajrayana, the chauvanism, the strange para military wing of Shambala. I am currently looking towards Theravada, simply as it seems to me to be the least mad school.

It is a hell of a comittment and I know that in giving myself up to it, it will change my life in unimaginable ways and you get those changes unless you do it.

There is a school practising near me and I think I’ll go along

Good website- http://buddhanet.net/e-learning/basic-guide.htm