| Re: The Divine Brotherhood of the Universe [message #463 is a reply to message #457] |
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Dragon
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Sir Excedrin,
Perhaps the problem here is your use of certain words which carry more baggage than your post can give them. It is true we should all be seeking to increase love in our lives. However, your statements seem to promote willful ignorance of those around us. You use phrases like "he is you" and I see in your words a belief we are all really part of one great whole, and merely different aspects of some multidimensional creature. I must reject this idea, as it does not comply with established doctrine, or my own personal experience, or my sense of reasoning.
Descarte said it best when he said, Quote:"I think, therefore I exist. And what am I? I am a thinking being." In these words I found truth showing I am a separate being from any other soul in the entire universe. My thoughts are my own, and I have choice on how those thoughts interact with the world I perceive. Only when I understand myself can I truly understand others.
I do not need to look for sin to find it in others. I don't believe everyone sins every day. However, there are certain actions which exclude people from my life for my own protection. I had many occasions to see people taking these actions, but I would not call them sins, because they had not received the law prohibiting such actions. Yet I cannot embrace them into my life. I may give advice from a distance, but there must be limits.
Buddhists seek to become one with the universe, and I have felt the beginnings of this journey as I experienced transcendence. In the end, the only way I can be One with anyone or anything is by having the same goals, intentions, and work. Just as every leaf of a tree is One with each other and the tree as a whole, yet unique from any other, and not forming one great leaf.
- Dragon
- Dragon
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