Gratitude Trust A Willingness to Yield

[Bansho]

Re: Gratitude Trust A Willingness to Yield

Hi Will,

Wham, Bam and thankyou ma'am/mister.

Bansho. You live in Germany right? Did you always live there? I think my colloquialisms might not be understood.

Roger dodger - I read you loud and clear.

Yes, I moved to Germany about 13 years ago, but I grew up in the good ole USA. I can still vaguely remember one or two colloquialisms. :wink:

Gassho
Bansho

[Tb]

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Hi.

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Mtfbwy
Tb

[disastermouse]

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We are not "theists", for we do not ultimately require or cling to a particular 'god' or 'gods' to run the show. (That's not to say that we can't if we wish, and one can be a Zen Buddhist or Zennist while a Christian, Muslim, Jew or the like. We can. We neither require a "god", nor push any god away.).

Coming from a Christian background (though not a very accomplished upbringing) and having left it behind for various reasons, I find it very difficult to not push the idea of the Christian God away. This has been the 'bone in my throat' for months... I am not a Christian, and consider myself agnostic. I gave Christianity every possible opportunity to live up to what it promised, and it failed. So. Am I now supposed to embrace Christianity as one of the world religions that deserves all the respect of every other religion? I think that's what I'm supposed to do, but I don't have it in me right now. If I had been raised in some other culture, and read about Christians in a book, that would be different. Coming from it, though, has colored it ugly for me.

I have a lot of similar ideas about Christianity, Christians, and a lot of other things. As I've been noticing my commentary on these things, I've also been noticing how absolutely unnecessary these little commentaries are.

Chet

[Dojin]

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took me a while to answer but...

thank you jundo for this post. it rings true.

as for other religions.
i am from jewish, i wasnt raised in a relgious home and no one in my close family is very religious
my girlfriend to keep the kashrut laws and some of the religious guidelines, but she isnt very religious herself.
it does bother her a bit that i am a buddhist, she considers me a sort of heretic... but she accepts it and tries to accomodate me.
just as i try to do the same for her and try to help her maintain her path.

so i think it is possible to live in peace and union.

my favorite singer, Leonard Cohen is jewsih and also a zen buddhist and he combines the 2 perfectly so i guess it is also possible to be both.

Gassho, Dojin.

[StephanCOH]

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Thanks to Jundo for the initial post and thanks to Bansho for his post.