Just for us believers (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 03:34 (4652 days ago) @ David Turell

David,
> > > Matt: [Buddhism] defers unanswerable questions [...] and focuses on developing yourself and your capacity to love.
> > > 
> > > I think the focus on love is what you, Julia and I may have in common, but it raises the whole question, not of God needing love from us but of whether we need his (imagined?) love. 
> 
> I'm on the side of Buddhism. Don't try for the unanswerable. I can feel that a God exists, but cannot describe his personality, which is what you are discussing.-It doesn't shame me to admit that at least for the few Modern Jewish writers I've come across, Judaism shares quite a bit with this general approach of Buddhism--of course, with an ontological caveat! -I picked up "A History of the Jewish Experience" a couple years back. I've read it in chunks since then. It is interesting to see a description of a people as the interplay and reinterpretation of the Torah/Talmud that seems to be the hallmark of modern, unorthodox Judaism. (Reformed?)-What do your resources have about the Essenes?

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"