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I am saddend by the amount of time some folks put into the endless legalistinc debates that characterize "orthodox" Christianity. One of those is the debate about "Hell," is ther really fire, whom does God "send" there, etc. Such a debate is running on the other message...

I am surprised, sometimes, how much wisdom is transmitted to us through movies. I'm not much of a movie fan; most of the movies appearing today are not worth the time it takes to watch them, much less the high price of a movie ticket. The nicest exceptions, IMO, are the magnificent movies of Hayao M...

I agree, Stefan, with that: I take comfort in this: If God is Infinite, as virtually every tradition I have encountered agrees, then God is all there is; and if God is all there is, then what am I worried about ? Jesus said it: Can you by worrying add one inch to your height? Buddha exhorted us to s...

Come to think of it, "we actually could bring about world peace simply by ourselves attaining nirvana" is in itself a false statement. The Heart Sutra (as interpreted by Thich Nhat Hanh) teaches us that "we meditate not to attain enlightenment, because enlightenment is already within ...

I get bogged down from time to time in the paradox: only what God creates is real; what man makes is not real, but illusion ... but boy, does that illusion feel real when I drop a brick on my toe. Trying to live as if what we see, feel and experience is "not real" is demonstrably a bad ide...

Atualy, it seems to me that ACIM and Zen are one and the same thing, just stated in different vocabulary."ACIM" and "Zen", along with "Christianity," "Hinduism," etc., etc., are all simply externals, definable as "religion," and the challenge is to g...

Perhps that is what Paul was driving at when he wrote, "Now we see through a glass, darkly, but then, face to face." Our "seeing" is skewed by the context in which it takes place. Science tells us that in the act of "viewing" a molecule through an electon microscope, we...

Quote: Sometimes it is clear as crystal; other times it is fuzzy; and still other times it is absent altogether . And sometimes, something seems clear as crystal when it is actually muddy as a California hillside. I find that I am quite capable of convincing myself beyond a doubt of something I thin...

" Back then, I wrote that the Guru or Teacher holds our Self-Realization in Divine Trust, until we are ready to claim it for ourselves, or more likely be claimed by it ." Sounds a lot like the affirmation of ACIM that "God has kept all your creations safe for you" until such a ti...

Actually, those phrases are sinmply chants from various religious traditions. I have recordings of them which I use for centering as I go to sleep at night. Jai Ram is a salute to Rama; it just means "honor to Rama." So likewise does "Hare Rama." Om Namaha Shiva is likewise a sal...

Of course, we are "worshiping" at al times, in some manner. Not in the traditional/orthodox sense -- you know, shouting hallelujah, "praise God" and groveling in supplication; rather in the sense that the word itself means, ascribing worth to what is worthwhile instead of to what...

"...when we speak of Infinite, we are still trying to describe God in dualistic terms, Infinite/finite, because that is the best the mind can do. Maybe we are again against the same wall of God is not something that the human mind can capture." Yes. I find the same, especially when reading...

I wonder if there can be such a thing as "life after death" -- if, in fact, there is no such thing as time. "Time" is merely a measure of relationships between objects in space, and ultimately there is (outside of our perception) no such thing as space, or objects in it. "Li...

This morning our pastor talked about "joy." Coincidentlaly, I had just been reading about the same subject in Thich Nhat Hanh's book about the teaching of the Buddha. And I was interested to note that the message of a Christan pastor and the message of the Buddha were esentially the same. ...

Indeed, with reference to the struggles we endure, it certainly matters "just who or what we consider God to be." From an "othodox" Christian point of view the struggles are an aspect of the duality that is perceived to exist separating God from man or man from God, a laboring to...