In Pursuit of Happiness
One reason I like Buddha’s teaching so much is that it doesn’t require me to believe in a personified god—an omniscient, all-powerful being who created everything. The Buddha tells us that we can never know the first cause and that it’s fruitless to try to trace our karma back to its origins. Furthermore, according to the Buddha’s teaching, our rewards and punishments come not from some deity who watches over us handing down judgments but from the laws of cause and effect. Everything that goes …