I laughed so hard at your lack of understanding towards Buddhism and total courage to yell that all Buddhists go to hell in a public forum

In Buddhism, you live your life for today. You live and complete your work today and practice loving kindness to everybody and everything. Keeping yourself calm, happy and very importantly, mindful enables you to be able to see things in different perspectives and offer help and help yourselves in ways you've never thought of previously. It just opens up your mind. Those of us who have not come to a point of which our mind and understanding has improved, will continue to battle this thoughts of hell and heaven and religion. Those of us who have understood, just explain and let it go.

If one chooses to fight the Buddhist way, we'll just let go and move on with our lives. Eventually you'll see why we do that. Its not like collecting points to die in Buddhism. It's just living and helping those around us. Death is another phase altogether but we're not done with life. So we'll just focus on finishing life first.

I know it sounds so "WTF?" but I went from WTF to "Ooohh.....it actually works!"

Oh? You don't know? Well, you see, I got the blue tags from the admins of the website. I don't know where Admins get their tags though, but I think Admins can give Admin tags. I hope that answers your question.

Practices of burning hell notes is Taoist. Read the earlier post by awakened angel. A lot of temples have adopted culture and thus the burning of paper. Take a visit to India's Nalanda, and you'll see there are no paper being burnt. Buddhism does sound like a rather hippie'ish teaching, but it also depends how you apply it. If you're a student, and apply living for the moment, it'll involve doing your homework asap and for me, maybe finishing my paper ASAP. If you're a housewife, it could mean doing your chores now, and when it's time to watch TV, watch TV. For a businessman, it could involve, getting the deal done today because today's the time to work and get it finished.

Also the level of Buddhism I'm showing you right now, is a beginner level. There's much more that even I haven't finished all.

I thought Zen came from Buddhism?

Take it this way.

If you live for today, and settle all the important things for today, and plan for the future. When the future comes, you execute the plan well, it succeeds. If you live for tomorrow, and throw away the important things of today (parents, family, friends, companionship) in the end, you achieve your goals, but lose what you should've appreciated.

Buddhism's a teaching, that when you ask a question, you'll get more questions. The Buddha himself answers questions, with questions.
When you've gone through the whole circle and finally see the light, you'll ask yourself (or at least I did), "Why the hell didn't I just accept it instead of taking 2 long years to figure it out?"

Makes you humbled and feel a lil stupid sometimes