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Originally Posted by GermanStar
No, a personal impediment to happiness is not the equivalent of sin. My take on it is that desire harms oneself, while sin harms others, although given the Buddhist concepts of oneness and connectivity, I suppose the distinction between harming oneself and harming others is relatively obscure.
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Christians typically believe that sin is putting self in place of God. Putting God in place of self leads to true happiness. Seems an awful lot like Buddhist no-self to me. Living an egoless life = living for God?
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