토론:붓다
영감
"The Buddha is inspiring to you because you have a relationship with this remarkable individual, not because this individual is making everything work out in life for you."[1]
"Many of you would like to be like a Buddha or a Jesus or a Mother Teresa because these individuals represent everything that I am talking about. Individuals such as these are not trying anything. Life is moving them.They are unburdened so they can follow life. It is not that they have few possessions.That is not the issue. It is that they have very little insistence upon life; yet they are fully able and desiring to participate." [2]
"Knowledge is an abiding Presence within you. It can counsel you every five seconds. It abides with you. If you are not a religious person, well, you can just say, “I feel very good.” And if you are a religious person, you can say,“Well, I feel God is with me or Christ is with me or Buddha is with me or the Presence is with me.” It does not matter if you are religious or not. God does not care. God does not understand religion. God did not create religion. God only knows God." [3]
이상과 현실
"Many people are more comfortable idealizing Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad than they are in really involving themselves in the teachings of these traditions. The hero worship takes the place of their own personal work and endeavor, and so these teachers become idols of worship." [4]
"You must turn your approach inward, for believing in Jesus or Muhammad or the Buddha will not bridge the gap of separation that exists between you and your Source and between the part of you that lives in the world and is of the world and the part of you that is not of the world." [5]
"On occasion great teachers are sent into the physical world, but this is quite rare. Why is it rare? Because people cannot tolerate having someone like that around. Would you want to go share a household with Buddha or Jesus? It would make you very uncomfortable!" [6]
가르침의 오용
"Do not underestimate the power or the persuasion of the Forces of Dissonance, for they too can speak of God and love and of Christ, Muhammad and Buddha, but with a different emphasis and for a different purpose. They too use all that is good, but for another purpose." [7]
각주
- ↑ The Miracle (April 7, 2011)
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, : Love
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 21: Enduring Happiness
- ↑ Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 8: Building Spiritual Community
- ↑ Ending Separation (March 3, 2011)
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 24: Happiness in the World
- ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 8: The Problem of Evil and the Forces of Dissonance