since buddhism teaches how to BE a GOD rather than to worship one, why...

[meowbz]

...aren't more people interested? people have such low self expectations... miserable.

 

[Grace]

Unfortunately I think Western culture is predominantly isolated from this concept.. yet they can not in a sense truly be faulted for what they are not made aware of.

 

[UpasakhaJason]

Buddhism doesn't teach you how to be a god. It teaches that it is possible to be reborn as one. However, even gods are on the round of Samsara. What Buddhism teaches you to do is to get free of the round of Samsara.

 

[Ekendil]

That is not what Buddhism teaches, you unlettered moron. Do some reading and stop wasting everyone's time.

 

[rejoiceinthelord]

They all struggle with a SIN problem and as a result it is hard to be a GOD.

 

[imrod]

I have met some who think they have already arrived.

 

[TerryW]

Lot of responsibility being a god. So much easier just to be a good little rule follower.

 

[ShortBusofAmerica]

no one interested in any religion, people just believe what theyre parents believe. making christianity dominate

 

[RicoJPA]

It doesn't teach how to be a god, even Buddha wasn't a God. Even in theistic Buddhism, Gods are trapped in the same illusion of separation, therefore subject to suffering, as we. What Buddha taught was how to break the chains of samsara, the chains of the illusion of separation, ending the cycles of rebirth, and how to become one with everything that is.

What did the Zen master say to the hotdog vendor?

Make me one with everything.