TNH = Thich Nhat Hanh --- On Mon, 4/10/10, DP <wookielife...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
From: DP <wookielife...@yahoo.ca> Subject: [Zen] Re: Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church. To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, 4 October, 2010, 15:31 I'm sorry, but what is TNH? --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Maria Lopez <flordel...@...> wrote: > > Hi Mike and Everyone! >  > 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. >  >  When I look deeply into myself, I 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. >  >  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. >  > Mayka >  > > --- On Sun, 3/10/10, mike brown <uerusub...@...> wrote: > > > From: mike brown <uerusub...@...> > Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your > church. > To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com > Date: Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 11:33 > > >  > > > > > > Kristy, >  > You wrote: "If you have faith, there is a whole sphere they are ignorant > about." > > 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. >  > Mike >
