[QUOTE=Sonrita;67763]What does it matter, everyone dies anyways.[/QUOTE]
I wish you to be this detached when your time comes along.
[QUOTE=Hubert;67786]There is a saying among my people, that every saint has his hands bent toward himself. In this, you are clearly one of them.[/QUOTE]
Hubert, what am I missing here ? In a post before it was said the Christianity had an influence on Buddhism. However, Buddha lived 563-483 BC.
Here it is an interesting book, Social History of India, showing how and why Buddhism was hounded off India:
[QUOTE=Sonrita;67763]What does it matter, everyone dies anyways.[/QUOTE]
It does matter a lot. Look eg what a misinterpretation of the sacred book of
Bhagavad Gita can do:
[QUOTE=oak333;68572]It does matter a lot. Look eg what a misinterpretation of the sacred book of
Bhagavad Gita can do:
Mahatma Gandhi interprets the sacred book of Bhagavad Gita in a great, spiritual way:
This damned battle of the -isms. It drives me sick, and it is driving my generation towards extreme nihilism, pessimism, and worse of all, apathy. Where we see similarities, we are shot down by references to outdated “sacred” texts and treatises and given out-of-context quotes from saints and sages that promote segregation and exclusivity. The pious preach their way is the one way, they put down others perspectives and paths, criticize, often without any sort of factual knowledge, other peoples beliefs and practices, and walk around as if they have found the most perfect, most pure, most authoritative way to practice yoga or whatever tool one uses to live a peaceful, liberated life. I’ll be damned if anyone here is practicing anything ‘pure’ or ‘sacred’–everything flows–ideas, movements, philosophies…EVERYTHING–everything is mutually influenced by something else, related or unrelated. It is ridiculous, and pitiful, and it has left me, along with thousands of other youth looking into spiritual practices, with a negative perception of spirituality.
It is as if we have all forgotten the diversity and differences between peoples which makes this world so colorful and interesting. When I smell flowers I think of home and I smile. When my friend smells flowers, he thinks of his father’s funeral, and he weeps.
It’s the nature of religion to believe that your particular beliefs are correct and superior to the beliefs of others. That’s what makes religion contentious and divisive. It takes a sort of detachment to be able to compare and contrast different beliefs, and it’s perfectly valid to draw similarities and differences. But doing so requires accurate information. There’s a huge difference between accurate information and misinformation. The latter should always be opposed.