5 apps for the Buddhist

@Toby
Sorry you don't know jack about buddhism
@Hi Climber
Buddhism isn't a religion per se it's a way of life. It's not a faith based thing but a experienced based practice.

Very well said Gilbert. I made a poorly thought out generalization.
On that, I do believe in much of what Buddhism teaches.
I don't necessarily consider myself a Buddhist, though I don't consider myself to fall under any label. "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me"

The amount of ignorance and immaturity in the comments is shocking.

As for the article itself, thank you. I find it very useful.

As of now I am deleting comments I feel are off-topic and do nothing but engage in pointless religious debate on an Unofficial Apple Weblog. There are only a billion websites out there if you wish to debate religion. This is not the place. I've saved the comments left already in a PDF if you'd like a piece of posterity.

PS - We're going to keep posting about apps that could have a religious bent. We're not endorsing any particular religion, these are informational posts for the people who wish to read them. If you don't wish to read them: DO NOT READ THEM.

Well Toby, There are Monks and then there are the rest of us. Much the same way that you can be Catholic without being the Pope, or Protestant without being a Reverend you can be Buddhist without being a Monk, the Dali Lama or a Rinpoche. And if you're not just trolling what you are referring to is the idea of attachments - attachment to things, material things to the point that those material possessions possess you. I refer you to the George Carlin bit about 'Stuff' - we gather 'stuff' and more and more stuff, until we have so much stuff that we need to be a bigger house for our stuff, and then even put our stuff in storage so we have more room for more stuff in our houses. - Our stuff owns us.

If you see the Buddha app on your iPhone, delete it.

Cheers guys,
here's another neat piece to your nice collection:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/diamondmala/id356618692?mt=8

Very nicely done mantra counter, the Diamond mala.
M.

Live and let live, people. This article is titled "5 Apps for the Buddhist". It's informative for someone who wants to spend a couple of bucks to assist his/her religious practice. It's not trying to win converts or tell the rest of the world how to live their lives.

If religion isn't your thing, that's fine. It's not my thing, either. And I can understand skepticism over religious apps. But I don't begrudge a person sincerely striving to be a better human being. Maybe a two dollar app can help in that effort.

A seller of snake oil knowingly bilks the buyer with a worthless or even harmful product, making false claims about its healthy properties. I don't see any reason to assume that all religious apps are made by crooks. I'm sure many programmers who design these products are sincerely trying to meet a need. Who am I to scoff?

Want to attain nirvana? There's an app for that!

My top (paid) Buddhist-related iPad add-on is the e-book of 'Radical Acceptance'. Actually it's the only thing that I've paid for. I've downloaded a lifetime's worth of free Buddhism-related eBooks from http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks.htm & loaded 'em up into GoodReader (iBooks works now too for PDFs).

If you don't like an app, don't buy it. If you disagree with a religion, don't pay attention to it. Why do you feel the need to come to this post and call something snake oil? I don't go to your house and mock what you eat.