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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11219)	2/26/2002 6:21:55 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 28931

The Christ Spirit in Budda.... >>In admiration of the Buddha, Fausboll, a Danish scholar says -- "The more I know Him, the more I love Him." A humble follower of the Buddha would modestly say: The more I know Him, the more I love Him; the more I love Him, the more I know Him. >> Budda freely received and shared the same ONE Energy, Light and Love that's there for everyONE to freely receive and share and celebrate. Budda was a receptical for this energy. Budda was a magnificent Lighthouse which received and transmitting this same ONE Energy, Light and Love in ways that continue to duplicate, replicate and radiate all over this world. And now all these waves and lines and energies are fusing to ONE!! For we are all returning Home to or Father in Heaven from an infinite number of journeys, across an infinite number of paths, but they have always pointed in the same direction which is higher and and higher toward the same ONE Home which is Heaven. 119293!!

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11219)	2/26/2002 6:31:24 PM
From: Grandk	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

Well, the problem I would have is that Buddha is dead and Christ is risen and alive. The mind is a powerful tool. Our belief becomes our identity. If you read Buddha and believe in what Buddha says, you become a Buddhist. I have great respect for anyone who adopts their philosophy. It is an admirable life. However, with Christianity, it is not only the belief that transforms you, but the inner workings of the Holy Spirit. Not only do I saturate myself with Christ's words, but at the same time, I put on the new self, which IS Christ. I don't need to think "what would Jesus do". Instead, I act and that IS what Jesus would do. If I question my actions I go to the source, which is God's word to see if my actions line up. But, what I do is done in faith that it is not I who do it, but Christ in me. That is where the word Christian was coined from. Those who saw the early apostles saw Christ in them. So they said "The Lord is There." From that we get Christianity, or "one with Christ". So, there is a big difference between Christianity and Buddhism.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11219)	2/26/2002 9:16:59 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Oh , here was that quote from HG Wells I was looking to post to you ...in "The Three Greatest men in History": "In the Buddha you see clearly a man, simple, devout, lonely, battling for light, a vivid human personality, not a myth. He too gave a message to mankind universal in character. Many of our best modern ideas are in closest harmony with it. All the miseries and discontents of life are due, he taught, to selfishness. Before a man can become serene he must cease to live for his senses or himself. Then he merges into a greater being. Buddhism in different language called men to self-forgetfulness 500 years before Christ. In some ways he was nearer to us and our needs. He was more lucid upon our individual importance in service than Christ and less ambiguous upon the question of personal immortality." Thanks for the Wells quote, very nice. I'm a closet Buddhist. <g> Who were the other two "great men" and what was Wells's take on them?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11219)	2/27/2002 7:28:28 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 28931

--Before a man can become serene he must cease to live for his senses or himself. Then he merges into a greater being-- yeah yeah yeah!... that's it! man... so many people put it into so many different words, but that there says it all...

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11219)	2/28/2002 1:03:26 PM
From: Grandk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Buddhism in different language called men to self-forgetfulness 500 years before Christ. Self forgetfulness is not to deny one's self, but to lose oneself, and that is not what a Christian strives to do. A Christian denies himself (steps down from the throne of his life and gives back the throne to Christ, the rightful heir of his life) in order to find his true self, hidden in Christ. Man was created in the image of God, and in God's image he should live. Christ is that image and in him is our true identity.