Tag: Buddhism
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A Controversial Verse – Genesis 2:7
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”. Due possibly in part to the King James Version’s rendering of this verse, there exists the idea, (in spite of Darwin), that humans differ radically and categorically from […]
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The Nativity Stories (v) Unconditional Love
I’ve been suggesting that the nativity stories in Matthew and Luke are two different stories that invite us, while enjoying what’s on the surface, to think a little more deeply. Some people might imagine that because I don’t regard these stories as historical, their meaningfulness for me must be sadly impoverished, but not so ! […]
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A Lesson from a Flower
Once, so we’re told, instead of giving a talk, the Buddha simply held up a flower for his listeners to contemplate. Although I’m not a buddhist, it’s my experience that buddhism has ways of seeing things that are of value, even for those who belong to a different religion or none at all. Among other […]
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“There isn’t any there there” …
The ‘past’ doesn’t exist, except in our minds now. The ‘future’ doesn’t exist, except in our minds now. But ‘now’ has already gone by the time the word is said. SO, when you get ‘there’, there isn’t any ‘there’ there. ‘There’ is ‘here’, and life is ‘here’, or it’s nowhere. The picture and words are […]
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The Ten Commandments
The 7th Commandment “You must not commit adultery”. On the one hand, in the Old Testament, adultery was, for men as well as women, to be avoided. If found out, they could end up being stoned to death. On the other hand, men could provide themselves with a variety of ‘escape hatches’, such as […]
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