"...The probability that any belief is the ultimate truth is equal to any other belief..." - SD
This is about as profound as it gets Slip...beliefs are ALL of the same nature, relative, dependent etc. On May 8, 9:34 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > Justin's post and the Deepak offering are simple restructuring of > religious/philosophical thought. Buddhism, the maya etc. are > different frameworks for the disciplines and doctrines of belief. > Regardless of their existence the world continues to suffer and > summarizing that suffering into a cause and effect aspect simply > exchanges one belief for another. The probability that any belief is > the ultimate truth is equal to any other belief. Buddha was a > teacher, so was Jesus and many others in history, including the > contemporary evangelists that keep springing up. I'm not saying it is > a bad thing for people to have a road map to essentially guide them > along to, say, Utopia. I just don't see that any belief is any more > valid that any other belief, including my own. Devas or Angels, the > Devil or the Great Brahma, levels and planes or parallel universes, > the vedas or any Scriptural text, it's all the same, "stories" to > explain the unknown that remains unknown. If we can all bypass the > inquiry into the why and purpose and stop subjecting ourselves to > needless anguish over dogmas, focus on a collective mindset of being > happy, it would be a much better world. Most problems stem from > unhappiness. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
