-(below); Jim's reply to Vaj's statement that worship of the gods is dangerous: Actually, Harris is critical of god worship only in the context of faith-based religious assumptions; and states that (something like this) is OK in his world-view: "When I meditate on Jesus, I feel an ecstatic Spiritual epiphany, and therefore you should try it". That's an experiential type of statement that can be tested to a certain extent; since other people can follow up on the recommendation and try it for themselves.
But the idea of no-god-worship doesn't even make sense in the context of Buddhism since Tibetan Buddhism (apart from some Gurus like Vaj's Chogyal Norbu Rinpoche); is heavily involved with god-worship; i.e. the Tibetan Buddhist counterpart of the gods: yidams or whatever. There's Chenrizig, the Green Tara, the White Tara, MahaKali, numerous Dharma protectors, etc. Between the two major Dharmic religions, Buddhism and Hinduism; god- worship is fully accepted in Hinduism, as a whole; and even the foremost Advaitin Ramana Maharshi was a devotee of Arunachala Shiva, obviously a "god". -- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > Then, maybe then, you'll realize *why* worship of god or gods is > the > > greatest danger we all face. > > > This is easily the most idiotic thing I've ever read here on FFL. >
