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Showing posts with label religious tolerance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious tolerance. Show all posts

20070607

Thou and God art One

The only time Christianity has one bit of Buddhism in it is the minority view that God is in your heart, and if God is there, so too is Jesus. That a Christian can maintain this belief is proof of religious tolerance. Any Christian who claims God and Jesus exist apart from man is the closest one can get to idol worship. The belief that man and God are one is the most ancient of worship.

20070303

Non-Dual Truth of Religious Tolerance

Rwâneka dhâtu winuwus Buddha Wiswa,
Bhinnêki rakwa ring apan kena parwanosen,
Mangka ng Jinatwa kalawan Siwatatwa tunggal,
Bhinnêka tunggal ika tan hana dharma mangrwa.

It is said that the well-known Buddha and Shiva are two different substances.
They are indeed different, yet how is it possible to recognise their difference in a glance,
since the truth of Jina (Buddha) and the truth of Shiva is one.
They are indeed different, but they are of the same kind, as there is no duality in Truth.
-- Kakawin Sutasoma, canto 139, stanza 5

Tolerance between Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jews and even Christians is of highest esteem, as much as the piety of like-minded followers of Allah, God, the Santana-Dharma, a,d the Buddhist Dharma.