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Yup, I do loves me some good Hitch. Drunk as a bi.., ooh shouldn't say that, ok, a very drunk person, pissed in every sense of the word, completely mangling his lapel mic, extemporizing the way no other human could, unkempt beautiful Hitch.
A very kind couple of dojomates gave me his book Mortality as a good test gift a week before my nidan exam. I immediately read the first chapter, then put it away for when I had earned the gift. Hitchen's rhetoric was a bit like I want my aikido to be, apparently sloppy but stealthily sharp, way over the top irimi, witty, and hopefully beautifully, incredibly human, honest, and real in the end. Check out his answer to Dennis Prager's "test question" for atheists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sYYZbZ8lDw Quote:
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As far as I understand things, Buddha did not want worship from followers, he offered a philosophy and teaching based on his own personal experience. Nothing was written down in his lifetime, all writing about his life happened many years after the event. So how accurate the reports are anybodies guess. Religions are based on the writings of men. I believe the same is true of the Christian gospels, all written after the event and subject to the writers own interpretations. There are no divine writings anywhere, every word man-made. The fact that men twist and distort often sound teachings for their own ends is, it seems to me, the nature of 'men' through the ages (and it is mostly men) using the words to control and subjugate others . On a demonstration in London not so long ago, a Muslim was waving a placard with the words "Kill all those who say that Islam is not a religion of peace"..... For me (apart from the delicious irony) it sums up all that is daft about blindly following belief, rather than looking for personal truth in the moment. regards, Mark |
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Everyone will benefit from reading "What Makes You Not a Buddhist" by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse.
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FWIW I came across the book after reading his article What Makes You a Buddhist. Good read. |
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Buddhism as a whole doesn't concentrate on God as the same way what you call the big three do. I know Buddhists who believe in God and others who don't. The main difference is on what the concentration is on apart from not being exclusive monotheism. Buddha or the one generally known as Buddha believed in God when he went on his course of meditations etc. Within Buddhism there are also Devine beings and 'Gods' but the emphasis is on suffering and the reasons for it and the disciplines to overcome it. Buddha himself viewed not much differently to how many nowadays view religion. He saw many praying to their Gods and acting like theirs is the true one and the results were basically division and rule and suffering. As he believed God was Good then he saw the truths of why all this madness happens in the name of God needed to be understood. Hence his spiritual path. O'Sensei used Buddhist divinities in his spiritual sayings too. Peace.G. |
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Then also much in alignment with Ueshiba and his words is the factor of Kanagara. Being at the heart of shinto it is the non exclusive factor said to be necessary to all religions and said to be what is needed by them to make them better religions.
Now where have I heard that before?;) Peace.G. |
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As this thread has been moved from spiritual...amazingly....I must share this little video.
I finally found an intellectual I love......it's a first! As this is open discussion then the video being a bit off topic doesn't matter......it's great and amazing though.....Enjoy. (It's only a couple of minutes):) http://youtu.be/QeDm2PrNV1I Peace.G. |
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I think you're confusing your terms again. "Intellectual" and "Intelligent, well-informed and articulate (if we trust the translation) person" are two different things.
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