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I found this fascinating and enlightening discussion at Sweep the dust, Push the dirt: Open Forum: Can Christian and Buddhist Practices Mix? Here are some excerpts I pulled out of the discussion: When we externalize, and in my opinion, “personalize” the god-concept, we begin that slippery slope into attachment, delusion, and self-deprecation. Sorry if the following is a bit lacking in cohesion. I’m just working with some rough ideas which may or may not eventually be polished. Power, control and wealth or peace, enlightenment and salvation? Which is the primary motivation for religion? I often view organized religion as the former with a little of the latter on [...] I found this in Yoga Journal’s Yoga Diary, an excerpt from Getting Nerdy with Tantra by Karen Macklin, about a lecture on Tantric Yoga by Chris Tompkins: Tantra, which came after classical yoga, had two new revolutionary offerings: 1 – it offered the possibility of liberation in this lifetime (as opposed to having to wait many [...] Technorati Tags: beliefs,benefits of a holy life,enlightenment,faith,ideas Here’s a search term that led some unsuspecting soul to this blog: benefits of living a holy life. I suspect this individual was seeking spiritual guidance and apparently didn’t find it here. Maybe that’s just as well because I don’t want all the crap the comes with being a spiritual [...] Are Atheists and Agnostics going to Hell? The creator of this FaceBook poll makes the assumption that Hell does exist in some other plane of existence other than the one in which we physically inhabit. That may or not be the case. If your faith tells you that it exists then, for you, it exists. If [...] Another Facebook poll — Should Religion Be Made Illegal? It seems as though someone on Facebook has their knickers in a knot about religion, particularly Christianity. Trust me, it isn’t me coming up with these polls just so I’ll have something to rant about on my blog. But since the question was raised, I’ll throw in [...] Is faith in Jesus Christ the only way to heaven? If you are a Christian, then absolutely. But there are plenty of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Shintoists, pagans, and others who believe their faith will get them into Heaven. John 3:16 aside, faith in Jesus Christ is but one path to the Divine. There [...] Do you think God should be back in America? This was a Facebook poll with only a yes or no response. Neither choice seemed to apply so I’m responding to it here. I have to answer it with another question — “Did God leave America in the first place?” If God is omnipresent, how [...] I’ve answered a couple of polls regarding religious topics on Facebook recently. The questions were “Did Jesus Christ exist?” and “Should we keep ‘Christ’ in Christmas?” I’ll address each one separately. Did Jesus Christ exist? I have no reason to doubt that Jesus of Nazareth did, indeed, exist. The Jewish historian Josephus mentions Jesus twice [...] Here’s a bit of poetry I wrote many years ago. Life as Lunch I am sandwich. I am salami as you are fruit pie. |
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