Showing posts with label 宗教. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 宗教. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Buddism - 佛教
Buddhism is a psychological religion. The escape of sorrow is Nirvana--which is a state of mind or consciousness, not a place somewhere like heaven. It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, and social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out that.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Seven Types of Religiousness
1. Ignorance
2. Fear
3. Greed
4. Logic
5. Intelligence
6. Meditation
7. Ecstasy or enlightenment
Peace has to dance and silence has to sing. So unless your innermost realization becomes a laughter, something is still lacking. Something still has to be done.
2. Fear
3. Greed
4. Logic
5. Intelligence
6. Meditation
7. Ecstasy or enlightenment
Peace has to dance and silence has to sing. So unless your innermost realization becomes a laughter, something is still lacking. Something still has to be done.
God & the World
God created the world in six days, just 4,004 years before Jesus Christ was born. Why did he decide, on a certain day, to create the world? What caused the idea of creation? Was there something else that was forcing him to create? Was there some serpent seducing him to create? Why on a certain day, and not before. It is arbitrary, whimsical, whereas evolution is not arbitrary, whimsical.
On one hand God has created you; on the other hand, when you do something wrong you will be punished. But isn't he the responsible person and should be punished?
The very idea that you have been created makes you a thing, it takes away your being. You can be a being only if there is no God. God, and you as a being, cannot coexist. That is why I am sure God does not exist, because I see beings everywhere. The person who starts believing in God unknowingly is losing his being hood: he is becoming a thing.
On one hand God has created you; on the other hand, when you do something wrong you will be punished. But isn't he the responsible person and should be punished?
The very idea that you have been created makes you a thing, it takes away your being. You can be a being only if there is no God. God, and you as a being, cannot coexist. That is why I am sure God does not exist, because I see beings everywhere. The person who starts believing in God unknowingly is losing his being hood: he is becoming a thing.
God Is Dead and Man Is Free
God and freedom are incompatible. If you are free, then there is no God. How can you be free with a creator who is continuously watching you, who is continuously maintaining you and directing you? In the first place he has put everything in you as a fixed program.
But religion has to die too for man to be himself.
(Mohammedans burned the library of Alexandria.)
But religion has to die too for man to be himself.
(Mohammedans burned the library of Alexandria.)
The First Two Phases of Religion
The first phase of religion is magical, which is based on magic rituals of sacrifice to the gods. It is a kind of bribery so that the gods will help you, protect you. The magical religions leave people as they are---so people in it are more natural, primitive, uncultured.
The second phase is pseudo-religion: Hinduism, Christianity, Mohammedanism, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism. It shifts the focus to people. It wants to mold and change you. People who believe it are more sophisticated , more educated. Religion to them is not just ritual, it is their whole life's philosophy. Repression comes in this phase. No two religions agree on anything except repression---to turn you against yourself. It has condemned everything you love: food, sex, music, art, etc.
Your mind is a mirror, it simply reflects.
Without outer richness nobody becomes aware of the inner discontent. All the Jain masters were from royal families; so was Buddha. Western religions were born in poverty, the eastern religions were born in richness.Poor Indians are being converted to Christianity. Rich Americans are being converted to Buddhism.
The second phase is pseudo-religion: Hinduism, Christianity, Mohammedanism, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism. It shifts the focus to people. It wants to mold and change you. People who believe it are more sophisticated , more educated. Religion to them is not just ritual, it is their whole life's philosophy. Repression comes in this phase. No two religions agree on anything except repression---to turn you against yourself. It has condemned everything you love: food, sex, music, art, etc.
Your mind is a mirror, it simply reflects.
Without outer richness nobody becomes aware of the inner discontent. All the Jain masters were from royal families; so was Buddha. Western religions were born in poverty, the eastern religions were born in richness.Poor Indians are being converted to Christianity. Rich Americans are being converted to Buddhism.
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