Tag: vision

• “For All Beings”

  Here, from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, teacher and author, is a beautiful, meaningful, moving, timelessly relevant, “if only” vision of humanity at its very best.  It’s also ‘religion’ at its very best. It comes from the ‘beating heart’ of Buddhism, but surely also from that of Christianity, and all other religions worthy of the name. It…

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  7th Mar 2023

  Buddhism, Christianity, Current Affairs, Literature, Philosophy, Religion

  Aspiration, Being, Buddhism, Christianity, Humanity, Inspiration, Life, Religion, vision, World

• Unconditional Love (ii)

  I wrote in a previous post that, for me, the symbolic image of Jesus with his arms outstretched on the cross, is a movingly powerful symbol of ‘unconditional love’, which I see as the ‘beating heart’ of Christianity, and its greatest gift to the world. I also noted that my own journey towards this persuasion…

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  7th Sep 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Abelard, Christianity, Crucifixion, Divine, Hellfire, Jesus, John Powell, Liberation, Love, vision

• Jesus and his Resurrection

  I’m fully persuaded that some of Jesus’ followers ‘saw’ him after his death, and were convinced that he had ‘risen’. ‘Seeing’ people who matter to us, after they have died, is not an uncommon human experience, nor are ‘visions’ of a religious nature. There is therefore plenty of debate around this, but I want to…

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  27th Dec 2020

  Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  brain, illusion, memory, Seeing, vision