The best advice I can give to Christians

It is the simple truth: live your life as Jesus would. Breath like Jesus, eat like Jesus, walk like Jesus, and treat everyone like Jesus would. Love your neighbors, do not condemn others because no one (including yourself!) is perfect, and act in the way that you would want to be treated. Show others the power of forgiveness. Do not become trapped in rituals.

I hope this will help others in some way. Om mani padme hum!

Peace and love

 

Also, resist the urge to judge others. You would not like to be judged, so why would anyone else? Treat everyone with love and respect. I believe we are all Buddhas within; we just need to open ourselves up to the divine within, whether you call it Jesus or Buddha. Jesus and Buddha are brothers of love, of truth, of the divine. Heaven (or Nirvana) lies within!

Peace and love

 

oh but buddhists are evil dont you know that?
hippiechick your going to hell for even suggesting that christians shouldnt judge everyone

dont worry i'll be there waitin for ya when u get to hell with a great big lovin hug

 

LOL Soaring Eagle! I believe we are all brothers and sisters on this journey we call life, and I dedicate my life to freeing as many living creatures from their suffering as I can. That is why I wish to attain enlightenment, so I can heal and remove all sentient beings from their suffering. May they attain happiness forever, no matter what denomination or religion they subscribe to. Om mani padme hum!

Peace and love

 

hippie chick.....i adore you and your posts! i am a christian, and these are the tenents that i am binding myself to....i have also bee doing a lot of buddhist studies, reading thich nhat hanh and suzuki; an old friend of mine gave me a copy of the dhamapada, and ive been reading that alongside some biblical verses. i embrace the buddha as a spiritual father, and the similarities between him and christ are no coincidence in my opinion.

om mani padme om to you as well, sister!

 

Thank you! May you be freed from all your suffering and expierence perfect happiness forever!

Peace and love

 

and to you as well!

 

Why live "like" Jesus when you can just be free ?

 

Jesus was free.

Peace and love

 

Um... not really he was a Jew in a country ruled by the Romans. Jews where not free.

 

:hurray:

 

You think of physical freedom, not spiritual or mental freedom. No man can contain spiritual and mental freedom. Only an individual can decide whether or not to be spiritually and mentally free.

Lol look at me gettin all philosophical like. BTW, good thread

 

very close minded of you to assume a Christian would say that. But I guess you're as close minded as the Christians you say should be more open minded. That is the problem with many anti-Christians, they are just like Christians in so many ways.

But of course now I am assuming things now aren't I? But are my assumptions right?

 

Exactly, Bud Toker!

Peace and love

 

Well, it has been my experience many times. Even my moderate christian friends were attacked by fundamentalist christians as heretics and who will go to hell.

Interesting, this reminds me of a quote by Nietzche which is very insightful....


Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

--- Friedrich Nietzche

 

Good quote!

Peace and love

 

Actually that is not true either. Look through history how religious freedoms have been crushed. In many societies. There is no freedoms of mind or faith. You think what someone else tells you to do and believe in what you are told to believe with out questioning it or you will be killed.

What made Jesus free in his faith is that he chose to go against the main stream sometime rebellion is the best freedom of all.

 

TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN REBEL WITH A CAUSE


Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

---Thomas Paine

 

Yes other people can have influence on whether or not you are spiritually and mentally free, but only YOU as an individual can let their influence run your life or not. ("you" in this case means everyone)

 

There is a thing called brain washing that does exist.