It is a religion in the sense that it applies spiritual value to consiousness and that there are lessons to be learned from a higher being such as Budda. While budda may not be god in the classic sense, It's still worshiped. When I was in Nara I took some incense from the urn in the front of the Huge Buddist temple that had the huge 50 foot bronze Budda in it, I lit the insence and thought of good things and erected the incense in the ash urn with the rest. This is customary when entering and exiting. It was a powerful experience to stand next to something thousands of years old and still be awed by it's size and complexity. Buddisum is perhaps one of the only spiritual paths I see as benefiting and worthy. All matter is energy, all energy is moving, and if you can understand that and tune the mind into the variations and flux in that flow I think a better understanding of things overall would develop. That's sort of the point of it all I guess. As a scientist type, I have to respect that, Who knows how our minds interface with energy, who knows.
buddha isn't a higher being. buddah was just a guy who became enlightened and taught other people how to. if i became enlightened, i would be a buddha.
Right, enightenment is a higher state, that's what I ment, not supreme being or anything like that, of course if you were enlightened and could see, feel, and affect the flow of energy around you, I'd call that a supreme being.
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