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Supreme beings of buddhism?

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Hello,
There are no supreme beings in Buddhism. Every being is going through the same ‘sanasara’. Only difference is based on the Karma (and few other things) a being will be born in different plains of existence which has varying levels of pleasure/suffering. A birth in heaven is due to good karma and a birth as an animal is due to bad karma. When the life of a heavenly being comes to an end it will have a new life in heaven or any other plain of existence based on karma, so will an animal at the end of its life. You me and every being have gone through human, heavenly, demon, spirit, animal, etc. existences countless times. So there are no supreme beings. Just beings who are getting a small amount of time in different plains of existence.

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Cencio Farre, inconsistent student of Buddhism for the past 40 years.

Answered Dec 1, 2016

There is no supreme being in Buddhism. Every sentient creature is subject to dependent origination.
The Buddha actually tells a little story ridiculing the idea of there being a supreme being.

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James Lacey, researcher and writer, and also practice Zen

Answered Dec 1, 2016

Although you will find gods mentioned in some of the Buddhist scripture, they are not “supreme beings,” but are subject to the same laws of karma etc. as human beings. Because of their blissed out existence, gods are inattentive to the dharma, and if fortunate, maybe be reborn as human beings. Some or many contemporary Buddhists interpret these things in a mythopoetic sense.
There is no “God” in Buddhism in the sense used by Abrahamic religions. Nor is there an explicit denial of “God,” the point is that the concept is not relevant to the Dharma.

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David Whitaker, Project Manager, Senior

Answered Dec 19, 2016

In Buddhism we are the latent manifestation of the supreme being additionaly in Nicherin practice the use of words such devilish functions gods and other beings are metaphors for internal facets of our psyche