I was going through a thread on the old Mothers Magic/Breathless Noon forum and I thought about posting a question that was brought up (Vajradhara already has the background information since the question was originally posted by a Buddhist and I thought I'd ask her first.)
The question posed was 'should a practitioner of a religion understand what is being recited by the particular temple/church/mosque/grove/etc? Or are the meditations/prayers "above" the practitioner's "need" to understand?' The original poster was a lady from Hong Kong who wasn't a Chinese speaker who asked for an English translation of the buddhist meditations and was chided for making a stupid request (just paraphrasing here.)
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine (
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(edited by Bruce at Phyllis's request to fix a spelling error)
The question posed was 'should a practitioner of a religion understand what is being recited by the particular temple/church/mosque/grove/etc? Or are the meditations/prayers "above" the practitioner's "need" to understand?' The original poster was a lady from Hong Kong who wasn't a Chinese speaker who asked for an English translation of the buddhist meditations and was chided for making a stupid request (just paraphrasing here.)
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine (
(edited by Bruce at Phyllis's request to fix a spelling error)
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