Lets look at our highest aspiration, surely Truth must be the highest attainment that we can seek, so what is the Truth? Well, you could say that God or Universal knowledge is the Truth we seek. How does God handle it when we are wrong? Does He get angry? Does He attempt to correct us? I don't think He does either of these.Surely then if we want to find the highest Truth we must emulate that which seems to hold it. If God does not correct us even when we are wrong, what makes us think we should correct our brother?
I think in His great wisdom God knows His children and understands their confusions, He has no need to correct them because He created them to find, each in his own time, His Own glorious and Universal Truth.
And so, the best thing I can do for myself and my brother is to tell him he is right, for I am like my Creator and I know that even if my brother is wrong, he WILL find his way to the Truth just as he was created to do...
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We treat each other based upon the Golden Rule for the very reason that what we dish out we receive back in kind ... at some point in eternity at least. Most likely sooner than we know, as Karma works just that way ... people will EVENTUALLY (sometime in eternity) find out the error of their own ways ... even if they miss the "message" and continue to beat their head against the wall of that truth, eventually it will hurt enough that they will stop and question WHY ... then they may find the truth that sets them free from the pain.
So I for one will disagree with people from the perspective of drawing their attention to what I see as the error of their ways ... such as outright lying or evil practises ... of course in God's eyes ... we all have the right to do whatever we want ... because God in His infinite wisdom KNOWS we will eventually learn by experience due to the "law of reciprocity" ... (+=-).
Did you skip over the parts in the Bible that mentioned Noah or Sodom and Gommorah?
Didn't Moses get angry and break the ten commandments?
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter" (1 Samuel 6:19).
"For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. . . . And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them" (2 Chronicles 28:6-8).
"And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried, they shall be dung upon the ground" (Jeremiah 25:33).
That being said, I have to agree with this:
James 1:20 - "the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God."
It's not the natural feeling of anger that is bad . . . it's the application of that anger.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
KaraokeMan If it serves you to believe that, that's great.
I however do not believe the teacher of Loving kindness and patient forgiveness ever did those things. A lot is written to justify bad behavior, but when I look into my own beating heart, I can distinguish for myself truth from falsity...
You mentioned God . . . there are many "Gods" . . . I assumed a Christian God. I don't recall God mentioned in Grimm's Fairy Tales . . . or was that a slick attempt to belittle Christian's belief in a God?
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
As to Christianity, in my personal experience Christianity is a religion based ostensibly on superstitious and inaccurate historical themes that I do not feel any need to adhere to.
I do not see any reason for ancient religions of any kind to dominate our modern world. My relationship with God is paramount in my life and it is not reliant on any external entities, it is an entirely internal Spiritual experience.
On the other hand, I would encourage anyone who wishes to pursue religion, as I believe we need to satisfy all our curiosities in order to find wholeness.
I would never belittle anyone in their attempts to find God but I also I would not lie about my beliefs and ideas on the subject.
Peace is not in anyway a compromise and it always comes from itSelf... A peaceful mind sees nothing else!
That's just common sense. And it should be self-correcting common sense.
I however do not believe the teacher of Loving kindness and patient forgiveness ever did those things. A lot is written to justify bad behavior, but when I look into my own beating heart, I can distinguish for myself truth from falsity...
I learned the teaching of no peace without justice from my spiritual advisor. He is a loving, peaceful man who admits to human frailty, but is very wise.
There are miraculous teachings and teachers in the world that can show the mind Reality and in Reality there is NO conflict. Conflict is the result of illusions, it is a mind still trapped and alone that feels the unnatural need to defend itself.
Bruce.
Negative emotions will not promote peace. Why be angry? What does it get anyone?
Why hate anyone or anything? Hate is a poison, it will poison the hater, the hated will suffer nothing.
Why not choose to have peace in your heart? I love to feel at one with the world, with God, with my fellow man. When I can find that peace I know I am one with God. Since I love the feeling I try to have it often.