Hinduism.

And as for karma, my understanding of it was that there is no "good karma" or "bad karma" but that there is only karma, which is a debt to be paid for your individual manifestation in the One-ness.

 

Well granted, in urban India, which most of it is now, the caste system has been very largely dismantled, although life is still rough for several occupations of people who are shunned.

Attachment to action? What do you mean? I'm a creature and I must act. I act therefore I am.

 

i'm not being hostile at all, i'm clarifying. a lot of people call vigilante justice "karma," and in the west it seems to be the dominant (mis)understanding of the meaning of the word.

saying "i like karma, i believe in an eye for an eye" is inherently flawed. pointing this out is not attacking you or your character or intelligence, and is not hostile.

 

ignorant westerners

 

Location: AUSTIN

 

If you belived in eye for an eye, shouldn't you be a jerk back? :biggrin:

 

yea that's the point i'm making. there is no good or bad karma. there is only attachment.

when arjuna is asked to kill his own cousins in the bhagavad gita, krsna instructs him that he must perform his duties without attachment to the outcome because enlightenment is more than the physical form. ram dass said it best:

'if i am a potter i make pots
but WHO is making the pots?
i am not under the illusion
that i am making the pots.

pots are.

the potter is.

i am a hollow bamboo'


:cheers2:

 

hey, your mother

 

I disagree with that, I think.

Passionless living isn't enlightenment. I don't want to be hollow.

I want to be an active force in expressing my love all over pots. Yeah, baby.

 

its hard to get the stains out.

but some people just like them glazed

 

Soon you're gonna start ramblin' like John.

 

ohk. well i'm saying i took a religion class, we learned thoroughly what karma is. i was just saying 'normally i believe in eye for an eye' just to say i like karma, but i believe in an eye for an eye.

 

Nah, I'm still in the atheism/new hotness camp.

I'm only interested in this for the purpose of writing a religious farce.

 

Make it about the Ayatollah.

 

My understanding of Hinduism is completely academic too, but I find it very interesting, read a lot from the Upanishads. I read the Gita for a class once, didnt like that so much

 

I think Hinduism is rotten to the bone, but then again, all religions are.

 

Is Hinduism more rotten because Hindu Gods have more bones?

 

Not all of the 265 billion Hindu gods have more bones. Most of them do have more arms though.

 

They might have more penis bones. They are very fertile.

 

And really my only reason for writing is to try and hook up with actresses.

And that's only to persuade them to try Team Satan. :biggrin: