Quote Originally Posted by Binzhoubum
Is that how you picture Buddhists? Don't leave one religion behind and escape to another one until you do real world research and aren't just living off the image inside your head...

Quote Originally Posted by Hamlet
lol...ain't that how it goes?! Take things too seriously and the tricksters always there telling ya to pull his finger But enlightenment is there at the top of the mountain anyway--it just wasn't the enlightenment you wanted...lol.


The monk could have raised that gong flat, and had an offering plate that would make any Baptist jealous. Isn't it interesting, that religions of different cultures and great distances reviel the same display of the hearts of man.

The Holy Spirit spoke thru Solomon, Years ago, that there is nothing new under the sun. Sure thereā??s technology etc.. but when it comes down to matters of the heart,..... hidden or exposed, nothing at all is new.

Heres a good opportunity to clarify differences between religion and and a genuine walk.

I couldn't help but think of the time when the Israelite were moving thru the desert with a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day. God did some wonderfully miraculous things.

It's tremendous moves of God like this that man takes, builds a cathedral or a temple around it, and it becomes a shrine to "Gods move", at that time. Most denominations seem to be frozen in time.

Had this been done In the desert,..... there they would be...... with their "faithful",...... their Temple, Church, whatever,......... and the Pillar of fire and the cloud ~ Long Gone.

Where's the presence of God??
Wasn't He displayed by the fire and the cloud?

As a Christian...I must keep the fire and cloud in view.
Hebrews 12:2
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.