Hello! I am a new member and am very pleased about this! I live in London UK, and am currrently training as a psychodynamic counsellor and work in mental...
Growing spiritually is like building a house, every insightful idea a single stone or brick. Oftentimes, after having an insight, we attempt to make it...
I was reflecting on buddhist thoughts with regards to wisdom and right thinking, and it occurs to me that from a buddhist standpoint, most people in america...
Hi, everyone! Our site moderator asked that I introduce myself, as I've just joined the forum. My name is Tommy, I'm a 36 year old actor/writer from Georgia....
Hi Tommy... and Others, Tommy, I am an old member of this list from a couple years back. I have just re-joined after a very busy absence. It has been both an...
This time of year has been celebrated for thousands of years and by various cultures for being the turning point, the Winter equinox, from which time the days ...
Welcome, Tommy. Glad to have you on board. I think it is impossible to be a Christian and a Buddhist. Everybody on the list thinks I'm bonkers, and they may...
... Hello Colin, Yes the world is insane, it is Samsara after all. A world in which noble selfless qualities like kindness and humility are seen as weaknesses...
Hi Jack, I don't have much time these days for chit chat on the internet, and I hesitated writing this post as I feared it might start a thread that I wouldn't...
Jack Betterly <jbetterl@...> wrote: "I think it is impossible to be a Christian and a Buddhist." Hi Jack - I am convinced. Christianity is chanting "Our...
... If Buddhism is wearing an orange robe and sitting in a temple meditating and Christianity is sitting in a church praying then it is impossible to be both....
Hi Dave, I respectfully disagree with you when you say; "The path laid out for us by Christ is the same as the one expounded by the Buddha, the narrow way and...
... And, while Jodo Shinshu Buddhists chant this forever, a Ch'an Buddhist would blanch at the very thought. See my signature quotation below. - Jack -- "The...
In one of the New Testament letters it says, "They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts." Along the same line, Buddha...
Hi Robert, I read your post carefully and with sincere interest in your thoughts. I am, however, puzzled over something you said. I wanted to comment, but I...
Thank you, Mike, for your reply. Just a few comments: Its not my belief that Buddhism is negative because it says that life is suffering; its just an...
He Mike, Someone wrote this in another group recently, All these words are just that - words. Christ is a word, Krsna is a word. A pious soul calling upon...
Hi Dave, Words contain concepts and the concepts behind the various names of religious leaders or founders, are quite different. Interestingly, you used...
Interesting statement Dave. Floyd of the Twin Souls, a promoter of Christian and Buddhist ecumenical dialogue once said something extremely similar: "Religion...
Hi Robert, I like what you write and I want to make that clear from the start. I say this, because if I disagree with you on somethings, I don't want you to...
... I have found it clearer if I take the position that what the Buddha meant was that life is EXPERIENCED as suffering, and that it can be experienced ...
Jack Betterly <jbetterl@...> wrote: "a Ch'an [Zen] Buddhist would blanch at the very thought" [of chanting the Nembutsu] Yes. As Ronan Keating said,...
... I don't find Christianity to impose guilt. In actuality, I have felt very little guilt for many years. This is due my realization that one of the main ...
Hi Micah, Thanks for the post... Nice points and well put. While I agree with your statements, allow me to share with you and others, my take on the Jesus...
... However, when the Buddha attained Nirvana, he did not cease to live or to be. He did not lack life, nor was he dead. Buddhism does not annihilate the...
Since it was posited that christianity has the problem of inspiring guilt, and putting one's relationship with God on terms that were too personal, let me...
... one cd say even more than this--he died to show the mistake at the root of the sacrificial system even as he 'fulfilled' it. thus Jesus both critiques and...
Just a brief note about Enlightenment I think the time it takes to become enlightenment depends on how much 'stuff' each of us has to work out in our lives....
Hi CJ, Just a brief comment on your post. You stated below... ... No, you are correct, however, if one reads the Sutras, one finds that, especially in the...
Hello Mike, ... Yet no concepts are applicable to the ineffable. All words, doctrines and scriptures have no intrinsic value, they are merely attempts to point...
