Merle,
Taking a few points of yours in turn, and in my stride:
I'll badger no more. I know we don't need no "steenking Badges!"
(company and comradery is what I would seek in practice, though, just because I
know it can be wonderful and efficacious. Especially if a leader or teacher is
helpful. I think you probably taught your art classes in a group situation?
Maybe a little like that. Private lessons are just too, well, personal, often.
The Jewish faith felt the need for, or looked for, a messiah. Not all the Jews
agreed on which one -- Who -- it was, or was to be.
The ones who went with Jesus -- or, later, Paul -- call themselves Christians.
They call the new arrangement "The New Covenant": It's not the Law that's in
charge anymore; it's Grace.
The other ones are still waiting. And telling pretty great jokes.
Gandhi taught that, "There is no path to Peace. Peace is the way". That's
where peace is, I'd say.
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> interesting..food for thought...
>
> jesus said i am god's son..god said he was his son yet god and jesus are
> one..
>
> interesting that jesus moved away from jewish faith to eventually create by
> others christianity...
>
> quite a story...
> are you telling me then that the jewish faith has holes in it that god was
>not pleased..?
>
> and as for buddha..well what was his gripe with hindu faith?...
>
> surely there must have been good dudes in all the faiths that they left
> behind...
>
> as they say the caravan moves on..
>
> will it move on in the zen buddhism story too..?...
>
> and joe your constant "badgering" me about going to group zen hangouts is
> like telling me i can't be a true zen buddhist
>
> is liken to saying cos i do not go to a church i am not a true christian...
>
> false some of the most enlightened folk do not enter monasteries or churches..
>
> as we see in history..
>
> jesus was fed up with all the "bullshit " that went on in the temples..
>
> and joe did he not throw the money changing tables to the ground?...
>
> this is why i always have a spack attack when you go on about money...you you
> the big capitalist..
>
> to my mind jesus was the first socialist..witness the sharing of the bread
> and fish...
>
> those folk who meditate in quiet places, deserts and forests alone are they
>not in tune with the very music of the spheres...?
>
> noisy churches and dusty halls are they not distractions?
>
> where is peace?
>
> where is it?
>
> merle
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