Merry Christmas!
Christ said this:
"if you had the faith of a Mustard seed, you could tell that mountain to get up and move, and it would"
i'm paraphrasing, ok? so don't get biblical on me (oh wow that's a lame joke)
he also said:
'the only way to get to the father, is to go through me'
this has been interpreted by most people to say, you must believe in ME, or you will go to hell.
well.....here is what i think.
what he is really saying is, if you have a genuine desire to know the Supreme Father, if you want to Know him intimatley, the only way is to follow the ideals i am putting forth in my teachings. which means, love everyone, practice ahimsa (non-violence), serve your fellow man, and engage in some teachings that are designed to help you realize the love that is inherant in every particle of the universe. But you don't have to believe in me. you have to believe in your own value, your own connection to the Eternal. your own ability to Love, and to be Loved. stuff like that.
in that spirt, let us celebrate the life of Christ, a true Master of the Universe!
um, below is just somthing i emailed a friend, but i thought it should go up here, too.
these days the prospect of bettering the lives of people around me, helping and serving others, that is what puts smiles on my face. and the eternal mystery of life, the mystery that surrounds religon, and man, and spirituality, and how to make sense of all of it. how can we get from where we are right now, which is great in some ways, to where we want to be, which is (for me) the prospect of the good values of the USA, mainly, prosperity and freedom for all people, open arms to anyone that wishes to live there, the highest ideals of environmental security, freedom of expression, etc etc etc. the us, it seems, is forgeting what it was founded on, or at least, the public doens't care enough to protest the draconian meassures taken by the govt. blah blah. blah.
my dream, is some kind of world where there is no war, there is no poverty, there is a more equal distribution of wealth, and where there is total freedom of expression, thought, and belief. i think these are the ideals of most good people, and they get stopped by listening to people who want to keep things the way they are, ie: the GW Bush's and Putin's and the Media, etc etc etc.
this is just my 2 cents, right now.
ok take care.
flamers are welcome to join my party.
cHOKE
