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Recent content by Basilius

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    A bunch of metaphysical and existential questions from a non-Christian (but who was baptized Orthodox as a child)

    Hello good people, As already mentioned in my introduction thread, I was baptized Orthodox in a church in Moscow in the 90s at the age of 3. At the age of 5 I moved to Western Europe and lost my spiritual roots. Since then, I have had almost nothing to do with Christianity, but more with...
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    Eastern Orthodoxy, Theravada Buddhism and Zen. Hello!

    Thank you for your reply. So you have to say very clearly that there is not ONE Buddhism, there are different traditions, but let's start from the original and oldest form, that is Theravada Buddhism. Everything there is based on the teachings of the Buddha and in contrast to Mahayana, which...
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    Eastern Orthodoxy, Theravada Buddhism and Zen. Hello!

    To understand what exactly I mean, perhaps take a look at this Wikipedia article about this question, which has been terrorizing me for years and putting me in a state of anxiety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_there_is_anything_at_all and this video:
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    Eastern Orthodoxy, Theravada Buddhism and Zen. Hello!

    Hello everyone, I was baptized as a child when I was just 3 years old in a famous Orthodox church in Moscow in the 90s. My "ethnic" roots are very different, Russian, Jewish and Caucasian (Caucasus region) We moved to Western Europe when I was just 5 years old, and I am now over 30 years old. I...