I'm sorry, but what is TNH?
--- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordel...@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike and Everyone!
> Â
> If everytime one has a dissapointment in any established religious
> institution whether that dissapointment was in Christian, Muslim, Jew,
> Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, etc, etc institutions:  and afterwards acts as a
> destructor towards the institution from which dissapointment took place, then
> it doesn't sound a very wise way of doing towards oneself. I certainly
> include myself in this unwise way of doing as I've recently experienced a
> great dissapointment in the TNH institutions which lead me to criticism of
> them. Though never as irrespetuos or destructive as many atheists show
> themselves ugly behaviour in front of Christianity. This harmful way of
> doing doesn't affect the instituions established but just to the ones who
> carries away such violent shows.Â
> Â
> Â When I look deeply into myself, IÂ realice that it was me all the way alone
> who built up a pedestal to that institution. It was me who caused herself
> the dissapointment for building a pedestal of "holiness, peace....to the
> institution". They weren't the ones!!!. Having seeing this within myself I
> am now grateful having found that institution from which I was introduced in
> the walk of zen buddhism.
> Â
> Â I was ever dissapointed in any Christian institutions because I never
> built up a pedestal to the instituion!. And so my experience was always
> healthy and positive. It was positive because I never put that instituion
> in a pedestal. I saw it for what it was. And so I could get all the
> benefit from it and never the dissapointment and the anger and frustation
> that comes with it.
> Â
> Mayka
> Â
>
> --- On Sun, 3/10/10, mike brown <uerusub...@...> wrote:
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>
> From: mike brown <uerusub...@...>
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your
> church.
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 11:33
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> Kristy,
> Â
> You wrote:Â "If you have faith, there is a whole sphere they are ignorant
> about."Â
>
> However, this isn't really the whole story. Many atheists were once believers
> who have seen thru 'faith' and have rejected it for what it is. Moreover, I
> am ignorant of what it is to be a neo-nazis, but have no trouble rejecting
> their beliefs as not just harmful, but wrong.
> Â
> Mike
>
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