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Originally Posted by lighthouse25
Bro. Bruce,
I've never been aggressive or confrontational, just speaking my mind, I apologize if you think that is my demeanor.
You said: "I believe, that one can live a peaceful, balanced, conscious life and life will maintain it's balance and when it goes out of balance, you can sidestep or work with the un-balance until it comes back into balance, again." I concur big time, I hope you don't mind me using your words again one day.
I'll be honest with you I love some of the Buddhist sayings and teachings. They make allot of since and some even coincide with scriptures in the bible!
As a Christian I believe that war is wrong and its one of the 10 commandments as you know, Thou shall not kill! I don?t agree with the this whole war thing, but I can't speak for other Christians either. You know I even interpret that scripture as referring to all things. A friend of mine who owns a vegan restaurant near the beach says I don't condone any religion where you must kill! My answer was I believe that the commandant which says thou shall not kill, means nothing should be killed; cows, pigs, cats, etc ? anything living which is why I?m vegan. But you see however some Christians probably won?t agree with what I?m saying either about my interpretation of that particular scripture. Myself as a Christian I always promote peace - as a matter of fact one of my favorite hymn is: "There will be peace in the valley for me.?
I see your point and I think it's great!
God Bless You! Yeah, I'll take it like a grain of salt!  |
lighthouse25,
Can you identify the other twenty-four lighthouses, and where they are located? Here's a big clue:
(
http://www.maine.com/lights/www_vl.htm#pages ).
Though I admire many of Buddha's teachings and have learned some of the techniques such as meditation and chanting sutras like:
Han Nya Shin Gyo (The Heart Sutra)
(
http://alextech.tripod.co.jp/japan/h...nyasyngyo.html http://www.zendo.com/heart.html ),
I am more of a Taoist (which I rediscovered rather recently), as yin and yang guide my way:
(
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/lao.html )
and the Tao Te Ching
(
http://www.taosculture.org/English/H...taoteching.htm ).
Roy Collins, another Taoist (but one with much more experience and practice) has written a book called "Fire Over Heaven:On the Origin, Interpretations, and Evolution of the Yin/Yang Dialectic and I Ching" (
http://www.cybermacro.com/xlibris.html ).
If you wish to know about the I Ching (Book of Changes), try these sites:
(
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...9563?vi=glance http://www.iging.com/).
The expression might be to "take it with a grain of salt" and unrefined seasalt might be the salt of choice.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine