On Mar 7, 2009, at 1:54:27 PM, Krimel <[email protected]> wrote: [Andre] Addendum from Andre to Krimel:
And why the Buddhists' compassion and humility? Because they know (not believe...they know) that we are all from the One, The Tao, Quality, God, Allah. [Krimel] I had always thought that one of the strengths of oriental philosophy was that it was less dogmatic than western philosophy. But your Buddhists ".... know (not believe...they know)." They sounds like my Christian friends who claim. God said it. I believe it. That settles it. Thanks for shattering another of my illusions. Hi my post probably doesn't fall under this subject, but I will follow this train of thought with my own. Let's say religion is a series of instructions on how to live ones life (Buddhism is often called a philosophy). The Buddhist I know, all have very strict ways of achieving nirvana, which sounds religious to me even if there is no God. I think one has to have some kind of strict fundamental belief in his religion, or else it would be one of these wishy-washy multi-inclusion religions like you find in the US, which are all about feeling good about political correctness. My understanding (from Huston Smith, I think) is that so called Eastern Religions talk about God being part of us, and Western ones think of it as outside. That is not to say that Christians do not talk about the God within, but they also talk to him and don't consider it talking to themselves. Same with Islam. Hinduism, I don't have a good grasp of yet, but it seems like a mixing pot of philosophies (I do like is plurality in Gods, which makes more sense to my immediate experiences). So, which is more profound (whatever that means)? I have no idea, maybe the one which controls more of our actions; same with the philosophy of Science. Willblake2 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
