Hello Beverly,
Having your non-comparing mindset is the essence of Chan. Comparing is
always relative and reincarnates itself into endless hell.
Also for your information...
Long Shu Bodhisatva (龍樹） brought Chan to Tibet way back then. In
China, Chan is nick named The Grand "Secret Lineage"/Vajrayana/Mizong
(大密宗）, while Tibetan practice is just Secret Lineage（密宗）.
Some knowledge for your non-Buddhist friend, though knowledge is never
our emphasis.
FYI,
JM
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On 5/16/2011 8:38 AM, Beverley Huish wrote:
Hi,
I'm a newbie in this group, and to Buddhism. I sincerely don't want
to upset anyone or start an argument. I want to join in this
discussion, and this has cropped up so I'm asking the question.
I told a friend today that I feel Buddhism is for me, and I'm looking
into Zen. My friend replied that Tibetan Buddhism is a more spiritual
type of Buddhism because they believe in God. Having looked into
various types of Buddhism, he believes that the Buddha communicated
higher information, including the existence of God, to Tibetan
Buddhists because they were more spiritually evolved at that point -
Tibetan Buddhists claim this is the case and my friend agrees with
them, he says. My response was to say that different things appeal to
different people and I don't think it's a matter of one being more
'spiritual' or more 'true' than another. (I really don't care what
might considered 'higher' or more 'spiritual' - at the moment that is
irrelevant to me. However, it did seem a kind of un-Buddhist thing to
claim that oneself is better than another person? My friend is not a
Buddhist.)
What do other people think?
Thank you. :-)
Beverley.
