Expert: Joe McSorley - 4/5/2008

Question
in the buddhist faith who created the earth and all around it

Answer
Hello,
 Buddhism is not a faith in the Western sense of it.  It is not a belief system but a matter of trying to see the Universe as it is, here and now, without the limitations of normal human consciousness.  There is no creation myth in Buddhism and no deity.  The Universe is ever being created and ever being destroyed.  When you ask who created it, it begs the question, who created the creator?  In the Western paradigm everything must have a creator but the creator. This logic contradicts itself because then everything must not have a creator if the creator itself doesn't have one. In this sense the Universe would be seen, from the Buddhist perspective, as self-creating and self destroying.  The earth arising with the universe and falling with it.
 I hope this helps you. Take care,
      Joe