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- What You Don’t Want To Know About God! - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2007 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockFrom the Bible, we learn all kinds of things about God. What we don’t know about God, however, are things like; what does He do on Sunday afternoons? Since we are created in His likeness, He must like the same things we do. Doesn’t that make sense? So, He must like football games! Go Packers! ...
Views: 635 - When I Was A Hippie - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockIt was 1980. Janet and I were hiding out (from my creditors) at Shasta Abbey, a monastery in northern California, where we had ordained as Zen postulants. Suddenly, out of the blue, I became very ill, and when the illness worsened, I handled it as I had handled everything in the past — I ...
Views: 1818 - Whispers of the New Christianity - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockThe new Christianity will include unselfish prayer, followed by not worrying whether or not the prayers will be answered. And God will be described as providing our building blocks, but it is up to us after that. And Christians will begin facing and accepting their destiny, and then taking ...
Views: 949 - Who Wants To Be A Coward? - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2007 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockNo one wants to be a coward, so if we know what it takes to be a coward, perhaps we can avoid becoming one! When we read books or articles on how we can improve, or self-help books that tell us how we can help ourselves, we are in a twilight zone of assumptions and speculation. To get real, ...
Views: 898 - Why Christians Practice Buddhism - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockThomas Merton, famous Catholic monk belonging to the cloistered Trappist tradition (Order of Cistercians of the strict observance), once said that he wanted, "to become as good a Buddhist as I can." Before he converted to Catholicism at age twenty-three, he read about Christian mysticism. He ...
Views: 813 - Why I'm Not Rich - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2007 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockThis is the indication I got while watching one of the financial cable channels recently. “Do you have enough money for retirement?” “Are you using your money to its best advantage?” “Don’t be left behind while others are becoming wealthy!” I am certainly not ready for retirement, and what ...
Views: 797 - Why People Lie to Us - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockLying is a kind of "get out of jail free" card. We can do bad things, lie about them, and we're off the hook. Or it seems that we are. But really, we're just setting the hook deeper as we begin to believe that we can get away with almost anything, and our conduct becomes increasingly unwholesome ...
Views: 2663 - Why Politics And Religion Don’t Mix - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockChrist and the Buddha were wise men; they never talked about politics. They didn't talk about politics because political opinions and campaigns are but afterthoughts in humankind's evolutionary process. Politics, war, power, and ambition have never moved humankind to a fundamentally better ...
Views: 1055 - Why We War Over Religion - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2008 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockWe go to war to defend our religion. It has happened throughout history and is happening now. Once we label ourselves as a Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Jew, we feel that this label must be defended. This is a separation, where those who don't believe as we believe become the enemy, and ...
Views: 701 - Worry — Who Needs It? - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2007 from E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockWe worry a lot, and the things we worry about are unlimited. For example, the current hot issues - the war, the economy, immigration, global warming, health care - and the list goes on. If these weren't enough, how about our personal problems, our jobs, our relationships, our families, our ...
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