Today Im stuck with Jefferson Airplane. Could be worse,
One pill makes you larger
and one pill makes you small
And the ones that Mother gives you
don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits,
and you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a...
I was born a Christian and spent a few years as an Atheist. Then I bacame a Kadampa Buddhist, but now, having become a little dissilusioned with the Kadampa school I would define myself as a Mahayana Buddhist of no particular school.
I am starting to read up on Taoism and I am finding it all...
Try to remember that Buddhist meditation has no relation to God, we do not believe in a creator being.
To go back to the original post, I am not aware that this "Prana" exists in Buddhism. There is no specific life force, we are here because our deluded minds keep us here.
However, I...
Shouldn't we all be fundamentalist? I mean, if we really believe that we have the truth, we should do everything in our power to spread the truth to the rest of humanity.
Maybe in the end we'll thank Al-Qaeda for bringing us all to islam, or perhaps we will sing the praises of the American...
Physical material always has a location. From any point in the universe, any piece of physical material is x metres right, y metres up, z metres foreward and t seconds into the future. (where x y z and t can be positive or negative)
Of course, the units are different and we can only travel in...
PM
I came from a strict roman catholic background and made the difficult transition to Buddhism, my family were surprised but they understand.
As such, I think I may only ever have one real piece of wisdom to offer in this life, and this is it.
Believe what you believe, openly and...
Art,
I am sorry, I did go off on a bit of a rant there. I was not accusing Baha'iism of being fundamentalist. I was only pointing out what I considered to be an irony in an earlier post by Popeyesays.
Peace
AT5
I find my own irony alarms ringing here as well.
During discussions on the "Buddhism and the Baha'i faith" thread, the words of Shoghi Effendi and Abdul Baha have been given as evidence of the invalidity of practically all buddhist scripture and belief.
Also, posts by Baha'i members often...
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