Blessings

Joedjr · 07-06-2008, 03:06 PM

Hi everyone,

A man (or woman) looks out at all that he (she) has. Seemingly, it is more than he (she) has the means to obtain, and proclaims I am blessed, and gives praise to and thanks his G!d.

In no particular order:
The same as with the Christian?
The same as with the Muslim?
The same as with the Jew?
The same as with the Hindu?
The same as with the Baha'i?
The same as with the Buddhist?
The same as with the (insert name here)?

Joe

Dawud · 07-07-2008, 12:22 AM

That reminds me... Thanksgiving is a good interfaith holiday

Joedjr · 07-07-2008, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dawud

That reminds me... Thanksgiving is a good interfaith holiday

Thanks Dawud, I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year.
Joe

Vajradhara · 07-07-2008, 08:18 AM

Namaste Joe,

thank you for the OP and welcome to the forum.

a Buddhist, one who practices the Buddha Dharma, would not see those things and think of giving thanks to a being which does not exist.

within the rubric of Buddhism positive or negative outcomes are due to our own intentional actions, thoughts and words. deities are not involved.

metta,

~v

Dawud · 07-08-2008, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Joedjr

Thanks Dawud, I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year.
Joe

My favorite day is the first day of spring, which is also the Baha'i new year, but I do like Thanksgiving and its potential as an interfaith holiday

"PRAISE and thanksgiving beseem the Lord of manifest dominion..." -Baha'u'llah

Dawud · 07-08-2008, 12:48 AM

My Baha'i perspective on Buddhism is that there's a First Cause, an Unborn, Uncreated... that there'd be nothing born nor created if not for the Unborn, the Uncreated, the First Cause.... I *think* and this is my perspective as a Baha'i, that the Buddha talked about God in terms of what God is not. God is not this or that, not anything you can imagine.... make sense?

Joedjr · 07-08-2008, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Vajradhara

Namaste Joe,

a Buddhist, one who practices the Buddha Dharma, would not see those things and think of giving thanks to a being which does not exist.

within the rubric of Buddhism positive or negative outcomes are due to our own intentional actions, thoughts and words. deities are not involved.

metta,

~v

Hi Vajradhara,
Thanks for the reply. So I should not have included Buddhism on the list. OK.
As a Buddhist can I say: I have delivered myself to this experience that I am currently living.

Joe

Dawud · 07-09-2008, 01:06 AM

I copied/pasted this...

In a famous Pali text attributed to Sariputra, the great disciple of Buddha, and accepted by all Pali orthodoxy He says:

'Oh disciples, there is a non-born, a non-produced, [a] non-created, a non-formed, if there were not, oh disciples, a non-born, a non-produced, a non-created and a non-formed, there would be no issue for the born, the produced, the created, the formed.'