Simply put, Positive Buddhism is simply Buddhism, but it is a form looking at things from another side of the fence. The reason this blog started up is not to convince people to change their minds about how Buddhism works--but hopefully to encourage an alternate way of looking at the Dharma. In the West at least, Buddhism is accepted by many as an “almost atheist” religion: a religion with no God, no soul, and even in many cases, no afterlife.
Practising Buddhism since the tender age of 14, seeing such views alien to my own thrown around so matter-of-factly as though they are the true formula of the message of Buddhism came across as rather patronising and to be a narrow interpretation of what Buddhism is.
I do not claim to have the only correct view, I do not claim to be an authority on the subject, and I do not even claim to be a scholar. What I claim to be doing is looking at Buddhism from another point of view; this may be a point of view that some abhor and some love.
My views of God, soul and the afterlife may be thought of as different, and my interpretation of Buddhism as heterodox, but I write not out of a desire to impress or convert people to this way of thinking, but as one gate of the eighty-four thousand dharmas: this gate is Positive Buddhism.
I hope you enjoy reading this blog as much as I enjoy reading it.
