View Single Post
Old 10-14-2009, 03:37 PM   #5 (permalink)
SageTree
Kalyāṇa-mitrā
 
SageTree's Avatar
 
Status: Offline
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Unceded Carrier/Sekani Tribal Land
Posts: 9,808
Blog Entries: 22
Thanks: 1,716
Thanked 1,170 Times in 873 Posts
Originally Posted by kiLLeRrrr View Post
so are you guys really Arabic?
Are you asking me?

I have studied the Quran for some time now, as part of my regular interesting and application of many religious texts, ideas and understandings.

I'm not more Christian than I am Arabic (edit: Moslem) or a practitioner of Judaism than I am Hindu. I feel connected to many paths and ideas and feel they express my personal feelings in language and metaphor that I myself couldn't have expressed in such eloquence.

Do I see them all as infallible texts of God, no, but I feel the Gods they describe are or were possibly at the time, peoples high aspirations and ideals. Fear and distortion has certainly taken place and it's up to the practitioners to seek past that and find deeper meaning in their lives.

I consider myself closest to the path of Dharma, in terms the Buddha used to describe it. Yet these ideas and philosophies also have helped me understand and grasp meaning in many many spiritual and philosophical traditions.
__________________
**Not Available: March 15-19**


Namaste

"It is the foe who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance." ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Last edited by SageTree; 10-14-2009 at 03:59 PM.
  Reply With Quote