04-01-2005, 12:53 AM
SizeMatters Wrote:I agree entirely, Bill. I was not refuting the existance of heaven and hell. merely the tendency for dimwitted people to turn heaven into a place full of fluffy clouds and all the pets you lost where you spend eternity chillin with Jesus and hell into a place full of burning cauldrons of molten lava where you are punished for sins eternally.
Bill I study Tibetan Buddhism quite a bit. as well as Christian mysticism. you'd be surprised how alike the 2 can be. especially in regard to heaven and hell.
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does not understand buddhism
I realise that I have a past to break with--an accumulation of inertia, wrong, foolishness, rot, junk. A great need of clarification, of mindfulness, or rather, of no mind. A need to return to genuine practice, right effort. Need to push on the great doubt. Need for the spirit. Hang on to the clear light.
Thomas Merton

