Quote Originally Posted by chris420
The only love thats righteous is the love of Jah. I think its an interesting and good teaching in order to live a peaceful and harmonious life with your surroundings, do rastafarians believe in anything similar to nirvana or enlightenment ?
In foundation Rastafai is christian based pratice/religion, a close off sprout of African Orthodox Church which was founded by Marcus Garvey in the early 1920s(Ras Tafari followed the teachings of Marcus Garvey, a Jamacian native and well educated african who preached africa for african, and a important figure in rastafari).
Nirvana comes from asian religion where as cristianity tells us live a good life and you gain entrance into heaven, or as rasta say Mount Zion. Rasta meditate, but not in the sense of hinduism and buidism, but rather to gain philosphy and wisdom through Nyahbinghi in Reasonings, we rasta gather and blaze up the chillum and speak of peace and togetherness amongst the community, philosophy, our religion and conciousness of the world and events around us.

Nirvana and reincarnation might even be considered occult and pagan belief which rasta shuns, because with the idea of Nirvana is we live life after life untill we do away with the source of our rebirth and enter into nirvana. In Christian beliefs if we enter into heaven, on Judement day we will be reborn with him or something to that tune.

ok I'll just stop typing, just blazed a session and feeling a bit too philosophical, running off with my thoughts..

-Bless!