Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00240)

Nicholas:
>
>If religious bigotry were only or primarily caused by how seriously or how
>attached we are to our beliefs then each and every serious or devout Roman
>Catholic (for example) would be a Savonarola.  There would never appear a
>St. Francis or Father Damien, who surely did not take their spiritual
>views, beliefs or ideas casually.

I am not sure that I follow what you mean.  I blame it on my English.  I
also can't speak for St. Francis or Father Damien, since I can only know
them by their writings.

I am afraid that you are missing my point.  My only interest is to talk
about Truth, not the relative truth that we attach as when we say that we
read this passage in the SD, and because of where we read it we treat it as
an authority.  I am not interested in that truth.  I am interested in that
ultimate Truth that IS, the one that was replaced by our ten thousand
religions.  Each one claiming to represent it.

That is all.

Maybe this is the wrong forum to discuss this.

Rudy

>
>People can be intolerant over everything and anything toward anybody.
>
>This does not mean ancient spiritual ideas are pristine as such.  Over
>the eons many desireous, hateful & stupid elemental forces have been
>attached to these root ideas.  They were attached by the selfish desire,
>hatred & stupidiy of some of the believers/worshippers.  But it is not
>impossible to bypass or break through this living wall of personal forces
>that surround many noble ideas.  All one has to do is think and speak and
>act from as impersonal & kindly a center as one can.
>
>A very big project indeed, but that is a large part of why we are here.
>
>


>--
><> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
>  When hearing, pondering and practicing the Dharma, one's aim should be
>  first of all to subdue one's own mind.   Gyelwa Ensapa