This is a very religious question that makes me, many scientists and quite many well-educated people feel useless and unnecessary. Such a question can be asked by those who have not been spiritually developed yet and by those who are not quite serious with their life here and now. However, the Buddha is not really interested in whether there is a God or not because it is useless as to how to live happily.
Whether there exist God or not, you have to make your life happy, healthy, wealthy, prosperous, peaceful, calm and so on by yourself. God can do nothing for your happiness and your wealthiness. You know that you have to do for your own happiness by yourself. Do not think that I’m rejecting your opinion on the existence of God. I mean that it is useless to argue whether God exist or not.
Even if you believe in the existence of God that can be proven or not, leave God at that. Do not just sit down and mope around for your happiness by praying to God you believe in. Nothing will happen by a prayer but stand up and work actively and practically. Then, the results will be brought to your presence by your practical work.
According to the Buddha’s Teaching, there is nothing to do with God, its creation and it s messenger. Do not rush to conclude my talk by misunderstanding as I reject your opinion on the existence of God. The mind of a true Buddhist can do nothing with the idea of god. Even if you do not believe in the Buddha and His Teaching, it will not matter too much but you have to understand “Practice makes you perfect”. It means that you should practice as the Buddha taught. It will prove you how it is.
I’m a mathematician. I love to be practical. I want to work out a problem; I do not love enjoying just problem reading. Religion teaches us just problem reading as making a prayer with an unquestioning faith on it. The Buddha is not like this. He taught us to investigate a particular cause to a problem and encouraged us to wisely remove the cause to the problem if we really want to heal the suffering caused by the particular problem. So you can see how scientific the Buddha’s Teaching is if you are quite well-educated.
The Buddha has never blamed and never rejected any religion because there is no role of religion in His Teaching. I believe that He is a professional physician who can very skillfully cure the patient’s disease by closely and seriously looking for a particular cause of the disease. This is the reason why he, himself, named as a “Besajjha Guru” a Great Physician.
The closer you learn, the clearer you will understand His Teaching. The more precisely you follow His path, the wiser you will become. The wiser you will become, the more happily you will live life. It depends upon you; it does not depend upon any God, any faith, any belief and any cult. Therefore, be clear that there is nothing to do with question how the universe is made or whether God exist or not according to the Buddha’s Teaching. I hope you get it.
Oh! Yes. It is quite enlightening and practical. Thank you so much. By the way your English is also excellent.
