Namaskar, What kind of answer is that? :confused:
Namaskar, Do you perhaps mean the (Friends of the) Western Buddhist Order led by Sangharakshita (Dennis Lingwood)?
Yes, the saying doesn't say that it is wrong to go into the wilderness or inner rooms which would be odd with Jesus and his disciples always...
Formative-Q65 [Luke 17:20b-21/Matthew24:26]: You cannot tell by empirical observation where the reign of God can be found. There will be no...
Re: someting might be a scam And it is this evil core of religion which is now being rejected by the more educated masses in this world. The...
Namaskar, There is no problem or conflict. Our "free will" is simply a relative one. If we could see things from His position, there is no such...
Namaskar, Enlightenment cannot be called an "experience" nor a "state of intellectual or spiritual awareness" because at the moment of...
Namaskar, Tell a similar thing to a Jewish person who has no interest in the context offered by the Christian so-called "New Testament".;)
Namaskar, You only have to look at the rich cultures of India to see what enormous benefits are generated from the mixing of different...
Namaskar Vapour, How much can the objective sciences fathom the Mind of God? These things only appear totally random to us, but they aren't to Him.
I would very much like it if a few thousand specimens of every "race" and sub-race would be preserved in special human reservations. The rest...
Namaskar, The teachings of Jesus as they can be found in Formative-Q are mystic teachings. They have little to do with the concerns of...
Namaskar, Important parts of your ideology were already tried out in Nazi-Germany, the Soviet Union and South Africa. Don't you feel any...
I like the illusion of having free will. I enjoy the imaginative freedom of taking decisions that shape my life. :)
Re: What's your favourite movie? Forgot to mention my favourite: Koyaanisqatsi (1983, Godfrey Reggio) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/
Namaskar, The same thing happened to me once in Leicester, but then it wasn't a Christian but a member of ISKCON ("Hare Krishna"). Although I...
Namaskar, Well, I'm not a Buddhist nor a Hindu, but I think it is harder to do meditation and follow a moral lifestyle if you crudify your...
The question whether Western culture has crudified in the last hundred years or so is a quite complex one. In some respects I would say the...
Namaskar, I kinda figured out myself that we were perhaps miscommunicating. I read your: and missed any mention of doing selfless service (IMHO...
Namaskar, If the "doing" is performed without surrender, then that would be true. If the intention, the act and the result are surrendered in the...
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