Outstanding essay. If you're going to call something a religion, it better have at least a few hallmarks of religion: *shared* cosmic origin story; supernatural forces of some kind or another; rituals that affirm these forces and stories, etc.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/opinion/sunday/politics-new-religion.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage …
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Can you name one that doesn't? I can't think of one. Buddhism is at best confused on the point.
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Right, definitely depends on the type of Buddhism, although most traditionally have some kind of story, usually somewhat similar to Hindu ones. And since time is cyclical/infinite it's not exactly *origin* stories, but mythic accounts of time/existence.
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IMO no...you don't have to have all of the above markers, but you need at least some of them.
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Oh then GOOP counts for sure!!!
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In the beginning, all the universe's yoni energy was concentrated in the celestial jade egg, and then the goddess...
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