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Can open these doors If one can see in the dark If one really wants

Gosh, I didn't know it was that bad:confused: :eek: :D Can you elaborate more as to nature of the problem, from a buddhist perspective?

Then you have the existentialist view that some atheists and agnostics use, where faith truly is about letting go of all certainties, it is about embracing uncertainty. Obviously this can be used by religious people as well. My 2p.

Nice to meet you. I love the simple way you broke it down to, not really naive imo, it goes straight to marrow, but perhaps some people would prefer complex ideas instead.;) Hey, the "Love God, and love your neighbor as as much as you love yourself" idea is originally in the OT, what if we...

Joy to all or none. Nah, forget it right now please Simple is better

Doubt? Quahom, I never knew that about you, welcome to my club!:D

Something on those lines is what I got from that excerpt from the gospel of Thomas, that I have "arrived" when I stop making all kind of human distinctions. So in that context, that female crucifixion makes me feel that christ is beyond male or female, it forces me to look at the inner not the...

Hum, interesting. Looking at myself I know I have problems attaching, which is the opposite of the subject in this thread. In my case I know this is not healthy, how does buddhism see this?

Don't know what the original intention of the picture was, the excerpt from the gospel in my eyes redeems the picture, and I even kind of like it. Part of the reason I think is that in my old evangelical church, images of god or Jesus were always seen as pointless and idolatrous, so I suppose...

Thanks for that. I forgot to say that most of the books I've seen (in amazon) include all of the inner chapters plus a few of the other ones. So I thought there must be some logic to this bias, that maybe the other ones aren't completely harmonious, or in the best case are dispensable. Good...

A question about Chuang Tzu (not completely related to this thread but I didn't want to start another one just for this). I want to get the book, and I read that scholars separate the book into inner, outer and miscellaneus chapters. Can anybody provide a critique of these sections, as to...

Hello Learner, your argument reminds me of apolegetics ala Josh Mcdowell, you have a point, but your argument requires one to place a lot of faith in the accuracy of the biblical accounts. I do like some of the views you shared on the core spiritual identity of christians, however the...

The way I see it when we refer to the ego is not just self pride in "winning" a discussion that we are dealing with. Sometimes behind people's stubborn position on certain topics, what happens is that they are desperately (can I say "I", "we"?) protecting a strong emotional, intellectual, and...

John 4:13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Quite interesting Lunamoth, lets shake this forum! I was wondering in what way post liberalism is different both from liberal and traditional/mainstream christianity, is this like a best of both approach, or is it a reactionary movement. And how current liberal, mainstream and post-liberal...

Yeah, I know, its called ego. And I know I'm right about this:cool:

Thanks Learner, imo your story if is not part of the topic it adds to it. At the risk of paraphrasing your thoughts, you seem to espouse that one is a christian in the *strictily* spiritual sense, living with the holy spirit indwelling in us, and having spiritual fellowship with God. If that...

Renewing floodplains Give life back to the flora, to those doughnut weeds (5 OK?)

Can't believe I made a mistake again, seattlegal you had the last laugh, hey:)

Yin-Yang curving time Gosh, forgot my physics book Never mind I'll watch TV EDIT: Sorry Seattlegal, the last shall be the first:D