Tag: Buddha

• Myth, Bible, Religion (ii)

  In thinking about myth, I wrote last time about the sometimes limited ability of words to fully describe. This, of course, doesn’t hinder words from evoking the indescribable. A favourite example comes from William Wordsworth –  That’s an eight line, non-description of what is intangible, but it’s also a matchless evocation of what Paul Tillich […]

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  9th Apr 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Atheism, Bible, Buddha, Jesus, Myth, Religion, Tillich, Transcendentalism, Wordsworth

• Myth, Bible, Religion (i)

  In dealing with some of the early chapters of Genesis, I’ve been writing about myths. Nowadays, the word ‘myth’ is often applied to statements, or claims, that are thought (and /or said) to be untrue. Recently, some people said it was a ‘myth’ that, during the pandemic lockdown, boozy parties were held in 10 Downing […]

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  7th Apr 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Awareness, Bible stories, Buddha, Flower Sermon, gods & goddesses, Joseph Campbell, Legends & Folktales, Myth

• Rethinking ‘God’ (4) ‘A Broader Picture’

  In my previous post, in the context of ‘describing God’, I said I’d look at sources other than the Bible which might be of some assistance. In his Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung outlines what he calls the archetypes of the collective unconscious, one of which is the God image. The ‘collective unconscious’ is the deepest […]

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  25th Oct 2021

  Consciousness, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Buddha, Darwin, God, Jung, Mahler, Panpsychism, Science

• Up like a Rocket – Down with a Stick

  This is the sad and salutary story of the 17th century composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, who was born in Florence in 1632. He was a gifted and go-ahead youngster who became highly skilled at playing the guitar and violin, and impressively adept at dancing; so much so that he attracted the attention of a son of […]

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  14th Mar 2021

  Composer, Music, Religion

  Buddha, Icarus, Louis XIV, Lully, Phaeton, Zen

• Appearance, Reality, and William Blake ( pt.2)

  In a poem entitled ‘The Everlasting Gospel‘, William Blake wrote,  In ‘Auguries of Innocence’, however, when we do look “Thro’ the Eye”, this enables us,  In this second of two posts, let’s look at the lines from “Auguries of Innocence“. In the previous post, we saw that we can now picture ‘ultimate reality’ to be […]

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  12th Mar 2021

  Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Awareness, Blake, Buddha, Infinity, Oneness, Poem

• What can we say about God?

  I’ve written about God being indescribable and, in essence, unknowable. The Bible, however, does have a bit of fun with a God who has legs that enjoy a walk in the Garden of Eden; cheeks that can feel a cooling breeze; and arms and hands that can do a bit of pottery, ribcage surgery and […]

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  16th Dec 2020

  Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Religion, Science

  Atoms, Buddha, God, Images, Spirit