Originally posted by Bodhi hut:
Well, there are many buddhist are supersition as well....they are becuase they lack of the knowledge of how things are, lacking correct information one can be drain towards myth and tradition. The boy might be seem to be supersition through the statement he made, but that does not confront him to be a non buddhist neither we are sure he is supersition through such wordly exchange of paragraphs.ya, like you said, work hard is to key to all suscess....
then they are not real buddhist, buddhism strongly oppose supersition,如以色�我，以音闻我���如�。You can read 达摩的 悟性论，it said 烧香，其实就是purify your mind , is not what people usually think, to get luck.and they build the statue of buddha is actually remind people of what buddha lectured, not that you beg from him for fortune, but if people attached to the statue of buddha, it's the last thing buddha willing to see