#hinduism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hinduism, aggregated by home.social.
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Grecia: Yoga este absolut incompatibilă cu credinţa noastră ortodoxă şi nu îşi are loc în viaţa creştinilor Sinodul asigură că a decis să intervină, după ce „mai multe mass-media” au recomandat yoga pentru „combaterea stresului” în timpul pandemiei de coronavirus. 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/9k68i 👈 #BisericaGreacă #BisericaOrtodoxăAGreciei #Coronavirus #Hinduism #Ortodoxă #religie #SfântulSinod #Sinodul #Yoga
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/113221/ Saudi Arabia struck Iran-backed militia in Iraq during Middle East escalations Report #Biden #BJP #Blogs #BookReviews #China #Christianity #Congress #Culture #ForeignPolicy #GulfConflict #Hindu #Hinduism #india #IndianArtciles #Indic #Interviews #IranWar #Iraq #IraqMilitias #Israel #Japan #Jihad #KataibHezbollah #KuwaitStrikes #MiddleEastTensions #Modi #MovieReviews #MyindNet #MyIndBook #MyIndMakers #Podcasts #Politics #Religion #SaudiArabia #Swami #Travel #trump #Videos
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/111908/ Iran broadens Strait of Hormuz definition ahead of high-stakes Trump-Xi meeting #Biden #BJP #Blogs #BookReviews #China #Christianity #Congress #Culture #DonaldTrump #ForeignPolicy #Hindu #Hinduism #Hormuz #india #IndianArtciles #Indic #Interviews #Iran #IRGC #Israel #Japan #Jihad #Modi #MovieReviews #MyindNet #MyIndBook #MyIndMakers #OilCrisis #Podcasts #Politics #Religion #StraitOfHormuz #Swami #Travel #trump #Videos #XiJinping
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The Supreme Court of India observed that Hinduism is a way of life and that visiting temples or performing rituals is not mandatory to identify as a Hindu during hearings linked to the Sabarimala Temple case. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/hinduism-way-of-life-not-mandatory-to-go-to-temple-to-prove-belief-sc-u1vczbvq?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Hinduism #Sabarimala #LatestNews #SC
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Idol of the Hindu god Ganesha, India, 12th century AD
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Idol of the Hindu god Ganesha, India, 12th century AD
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Idol of the Hindu god Ganesha, India, 12th century AD
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Idol of the Hindu god Ganesha, India, 12th century AD
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Miniatura de arenisca roja de un santuario de Shiva, con su representación anicónica lingam en su interior. Ganesha se muestra sobre el umbral y la torre shikhara representa el monte Meru, eje del cosmos hindú. Este santuario, posiblemente elaborado en Benares durante los siglos XVIII-XIX, se habría colocado como ofrenda en un santuario o junto a un río. Muesta la arquitectura del norte de la India y las decoraciones mogolas junto a la puerta. 🏛️Museo Británico #hinduismo #hinduism
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France sends aircraft carrier to Red Sea amid push for Hormuz security mission https://www.byteseu.com/1997980/ #Biden #BJP #Blogs #BookReviews #CharlesDeGaulle #China #Christianity #Congress #culture #ForeignPolicy #France #Hindu #Hinduism #india #IndianArtciles #Indic #Interviews #Iran #Israel #Japan #Jihad #MaritimeSecurity #Modi #MovieReviews #MyindNet #MyIndBook #MyIndMakers #Podcasts #Politics #RedSeaDeployment #Religion #StraitOfHormuz #Swami #Travel #trump #UnitedStates #Videos
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Idol of the Hindu deity Durga, Nepal, 14th-15th century AD
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Idol of the Hindu deity Durga, Nepal, 14th-15th century AD
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Idol of the Hindu deity Durga, Nepal, 14th-15th century AD
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Idol of the Hindu deity Durga, Nepal, 14th-15th century AD
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Things are about to get worse in India and Bangladesh. India will certainly try to push thousands of their Muslim citizens into Bangladesh which is already struggling with more than a million Rohingya refugees.
#India #Bangladesh #Dhaka #Politics #Asia #Islam #Hinduism #WestBengal
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Augustine and Vedanta are closer to each other than either is to Plotinus in rejecting the idea that matter is intrinsically evil, but they still differ sharply in how they explain evil and the human predicament.
#Augustine #Vedanta #Christianity #Hinduism #theology #Neoplatonism
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Blog: I Went to a New Age Expo (Stranger in a Strange Land) – Why are There so Many Kids Here? And What’s with Reincarnation?
Welp, it’s that time of year again. The birds are chirping, the flowers are coming up, the dang mosquitos are back for no other reason than to spite us, and the weather is as indecisive as Taylor Swift where it can’t decide what it wants to be. In other words, its spring, and that means that my local New Age expo is back in town, which means y’all get to hear about the madness.
This expo is one of four this year, with two happening in spring, one happening in mid-summer, and the last in early fall. However, from what I’ve heard from the people who went in previous years, the one we went to was the biggest one of the year. That said, I wasn’t surprised about the sheer number of people who were there. The convention hall was super crowded, but one of the things I wasn’t expecting about the crowd was how many kids were there. The majority of the crowd was female, so it was only natural that there would be some moms, but I wasn’t expecting the moms to bring their kids, ages ranging from babies to pre-teens. I saw one little boy holding a crystal wand in each hand as he sat and meditated at a booth, for crying out loud.
I can’t tell what’s worse: kids running around at Sephora, or kids running around at the New Age Expo. At least Sephora doesn’t have several booths selling psilocybin.
But besides the absurd number of kids there, the main thing that my family’s conversations with people revolved around was reincarnation. Now, I’ll stick to the three most interesting conversations we had with the people there for the sake of brevity, but all three are weird.
The first person we talked to was a lady who identified as Roman Catholic and believed in various Masters of Wisdom, particularly that Jesus is the Master of Love and Buddha is the Master of Wisdom. Further, she believed in perennial wisdom, which is the belief that there was once an ultimate truth or religion that got turned into the various beliefs and religions held by everyone today. Thus, everyone is on their own path to the ultimate source of everything as they gradually figure out and accept that they have the divine spark within them and reach enlightenment over the course of thousands or millions of reincarnation cycles.
She also believed that since everyone gets reincarnated, they basically have infinite attempts to get it right. If the planet blows up in the meantime, that’s fine. You’ll get transferred to a different planet. And if you do get it right and become some sort of super enlightened spiritual master, you can get transferred to another planet to help other people reach their enlightenment. Doesn’t that sound fun?
Now, for those of you who have read the Bible, you might be slightly confused about who the heck Jesus is to this lady and how He fits into her belief system. After all, she was saying that he’s one of the various Masters you can follow while the Bible says that He’s your only shot to Heaven. Well, when I brought up John 14:6 when Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” she said that Jesus is essentially the most enlightened person ever. He’s the gatekeeper to reaching God, so as the Master of Love, He’s the highest standard for everyone to follow to reach their divine spark.
Of course, that is not at all what Jesus meant in the Bible, but this is how she was interpreting it to fit with her worldview.
But that leaves the question of how Jesus reached such a high enlightenment status that He could claim to be God. According to her, it was through being unconditionally loving, thus reaching His full potential through the divine spark within, because God is love, whatever that’s defined as. It’s not like according to the Bible, while God is loving and merciful, He’s also just and must rain down His wrath on those who break His law or anything.
Overall, the path to the ultimate truth according to her was by being unconditionally loving and by following whatever truth fits you…which is entirely subjective and contradictory.
Another interesting conversation I had was with a member of what’s possibly the most obvious pseudo-Christian cult I’ve ever seen. This cult is called the Church of Shambhala Vajradhara Maitreya Sangha, and its leader is a dude who calls himself Buddha Maitreya and claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. As such, he believes that it’s his job to restore the Noosphere through Christ consciousness, amongst other things.
But what is the Noosphere? I’ll let him explain:
The Noosphere is the planetary sphere of mind or thinking layer of the planet Earth. To grasp the idea of the Noosphere, we must elevate our consciousness and open ourselves to the most general, elemental, and cosmic principles of life on Earth.
The Noosphere is the next stage in the evolution of human consciousness. As the mental sheathe of the planet, the Noosphere characterizes mind and consciousness as a unitary phenomenon. This means that the quality and nature of our individual and collective thoughts directly affects the Noosphere and creates the quality of our environment – the biosphere.
The historic process is changing dramatically before our eyes … Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity’s mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking Mankind as a single entity. This new state of the world we are approaching without noticing it, it is the ‘Noosphere’.
The return of Christ as the fulfillment of the Noosphere as well as the consummation of the universe. According to the Law of Time, the end of linear time begins the time of the Noosphere and the return of Christ Consciousness.But when will the return of Christ be if this dude is claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ? According to the lady I was talking to, who was a nun for this cult, the first coming occurred when Jesus came in His original body. After He died and was resurrected, she then said that He went to India (where He also spent His early years between 12 and 30), married, and somewhere along the line, was reincarnated in various forms, which is the second coming.
If you’re confused, I am too.
I asked her how that lined up with what the Bible (which she claimed to have read) says about the return of Jesus and how everyone will see Him and every knee will bow. Her response, like with many of the other questions I asked her, was, “I’m just a student.”
Some of the other questions I asked her included:
1). “Do you believe the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the actual teachings of Jesus during His first coming?”
2). “What evidence is there that Buddha Maitreya is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?”
3). “If karma is real,” – (they believe in karma) – “then if a woman is raped, then does she deserve it for something bad that she did in a past life?”
4). “What defines good and bad, or your concept of ‘virtue’?”
5). “What happens after we die? Do I get reincarnated or do I get to break out of that cycle?”
6). “If we’re constantly being reincarnated, then what purpose is there in repenting and following this guy if I’m still, maybe, going to get reincarnated?”
The answers to questions 4-6 could be summed up as, “I don’t know,” as she kept telling me, “I’m just a student. It’s better to hear ‘Jesus’ speak.” The other three questions, however, she did try to answer. On the first one, she said that while Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were okay about Jesus’ ministry, but it’s better to hear from Buddha Maitreya himself. Additionally, her group mainly focuses on the “Lost Gospels.” The Lost Gospels are basically a theory that Jesus, in the 18 years that we know next to nothing about between His childhood and ministry, went to India, did some stuff there, and travelled back to Israel to His thing. Of course, there’s no solid historical evidence for this, but this is what they roll with.
On my second question, her response was that some anonymous pastor/theologian in South Africa said that Buddha Maitreya was Jesus after listening to him. And with the third question, she just brushed that off entirely as absurd.
I hope y’all can detect the issues with her apologetic for this cult. If it wasn’t saying “I don’t know” or deflecting, it’s based on completely unverifiable sources or unsupported theories. It got to a point where we were both getting frustrated, her with the questions, and me with the lack of answers. Finally, she directed me to Buddha Maitreya’s YouTube channel, and I may do a deep dive post on him and his cult eventually.
Finally, the last person I’ll mention here is a dude I’m just going to call Wyatt. Originally, we thought he was a Wiccan, but actually, he was closer to a Luciferian. There are different types of Luciferians out there, but in his case, he believed that we are gods who came from some source that we later called “God,” and that we need to realize that we’re God to eventually reach our full potential as god at some point. Thus, Wyatt believed that he’s a god and that he can help other people reach their god-ness.
As we continued to question this belief, though, Wyatt started getting visibly flustered to the point where his neck was so red and splotchy that I was wondering if he was having an allergic reaction to something. Thankfully, we were able to end the conversation when my dad informed Mom and I that he had finally located a family friend who was also doing evangelism there.
So, that was my experience with the New Agers this time around. It’s honestly a depressing look at how easily people are deceived as long as they can feel like they are in control.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Bible #Blog #Buddhism #Christianity #Cults #faith #god #Hinduism #jesus #Luciferianism #NewAge #NewAgeExpo #OpinionPeice #PerennialWisdom #Reincarnation #Writing -
Blog: I Went to a New Age Expo (Stranger in a Strange Land) – Why are There so Many Kids Here? And What’s with Reincarnation?
Welp, it’s that time of year again. The birds are chirping, the flowers are coming up, the dang mosquitos are back for no other reason than to spite us, and the weather is as indecisive as Taylor Swift where it can’t decide what it wants to be. In other words, its spring, and that means that my local New Age expo is back in town, which means y’all get to hear about the madness.
This expo is one of four this year, with two happening in spring, one happening in mid-summer, and the last in early fall. However, from what I’ve heard from the people who went in previous years, the one we went to was the biggest one of the year. That said, I wasn’t surprised about the sheer number of people who were there. The convention hall was super crowded, but one of the things I wasn’t expecting about the crowd was how many kids were there. The majority of the crowd was female, so it was only natural that there would be some moms, but I wasn’t expecting the moms to bring their kids, ages ranging from babies to pre-teens. I saw one little boy holding a crystal wand in each hand as he sat and meditated at a booth, for crying out loud.
I can’t tell what’s worse: kids running around at Sephora, or kids running around at the New Age Expo. At least Sephora doesn’t have several booths selling psilocybin.
But besides the absurd number of kids there, the main thing that my family’s conversations with people revolved around was reincarnation. Now, I’ll stick to the three most interesting conversations we had with the people there for the sake of brevity, but all three are weird.
The first person we talked to was a lady who identified as Roman Catholic and believed in various Masters of Wisdom, particularly that Jesus is the Master of Love and Buddha is the Master of Wisdom. Further, she believed in perennial wisdom, which is the belief that there was once an ultimate truth or religion that got turned into the various beliefs and religions held by everyone today. Thus, everyone is on their own path to the ultimate source of everything as they gradually figure out and accept that they have the divine spark within them and reach enlightenment over the course of thousands or millions of reincarnation cycles.
She also believed that since everyone gets reincarnated, they basically have infinite attempts to get it right. If the planet blows up in the meantime, that’s fine. You’ll get transferred to a different planet. And if you do get it right and become some sort of super enlightened spiritual master, you can get transferred to another planet to help other people reach their enlightenment. Doesn’t that sound fun?
Now, for those of you who have read the Bible, you might be slightly confused about who the heck Jesus is to this lady and how He fits into her belief system. After all, she was saying that he’s one of the various Masters you can follow while the Bible says that He’s your only shot to Heaven. Well, when I brought up John 14:6 when Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” she said that Jesus is essentially the most enlightened person ever. He’s the gatekeeper to reaching God, so as the Master of Love, He’s the highest standard for everyone to follow to reach their divine spark.
Of course, that is not at all what Jesus meant in the Bible, but this is how she was interpreting it to fit with her worldview.
But that leaves the question of how Jesus reached such a high enlightenment status that He could claim to be God. According to her, it was through being unconditionally loving, thus reaching His full potential through the divine spark within, because God is love, whatever that’s defined as. It’s not like according to the Bible, while God is loving and merciful, He’s also just and must rain down His wrath on those who break His law or anything.
Overall, the path to the ultimate truth according to her was by being unconditionally loving and by following whatever truth fits you…which is entirely subjective and contradictory.
Another interesting conversation I had was with a member of what’s possibly the most obvious pseudo-Christian cult I’ve ever seen. This cult is called the Church of Shambhala Vajradhara Maitreya Sangha, and its leader is a dude who calls himself Buddha Maitreya and claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. As such, he believes that it’s his job to restore the Noosphere through Christ consciousness, amongst other things.
But what is the Noosphere? I’ll let him explain:
The Noosphere is the planetary sphere of mind or thinking layer of the planet Earth. To grasp the idea of the Noosphere, we must elevate our consciousness and open ourselves to the most general, elemental, and cosmic principles of life on Earth.
The Noosphere is the next stage in the evolution of human consciousness. As the mental sheathe of the planet, the Noosphere characterizes mind and consciousness as a unitary phenomenon. This means that the quality and nature of our individual and collective thoughts directly affects the Noosphere and creates the quality of our environment – the biosphere.
The historic process is changing dramatically before our eyes … Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity’s mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking Mankind as a single entity. This new state of the world we are approaching without noticing it, it is the ‘Noosphere’.
The return of Christ as the fulfillment of the Noosphere as well as the consummation of the universe. According to the Law of Time, the end of linear time begins the time of the Noosphere and the return of Christ Consciousness.But when will the return of Christ be if this dude is claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ? According to the lady I was talking to, who was a nun for this cult, the first coming occurred when Jesus came in His original body. After He died and was resurrected, she then said that He went to India (where He also spent His early years between 12 and 30), married, and somewhere along the line, was reincarnated in various forms, which is the second coming.
If you’re confused, I am too.
I asked her how that lined up with what the Bible (which she claimed to have read) says about the return of Jesus and how everyone will see Him and every knee will bow. Her response, like with many of the other questions I asked her, was, “I’m just a student.”
Some of the other questions I asked her included:
1). “Do you believe the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the actual teachings of Jesus during His first coming?”
2). “What evidence is there that Buddha Maitreya is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?”
3). “If karma is real,” – (they believe in karma) – “then if a woman is raped, then does she deserve it for something bad that she did in a past life?”
4). “What defines good and bad, or your concept of ‘virtue’?”
5). “What happens after we die? Do I get reincarnated or do I get to break out of that cycle?”
6). “If we’re constantly being reincarnated, then what purpose is there in repenting and following this guy if I’m still, maybe, going to get reincarnated?”
The answers to questions 4-6 could be summed up as, “I don’t know,” as she kept telling me, “I’m just a student. It’s better to hear ‘Jesus’ speak.” The other three questions, however, she did try to answer. On the first one, she said that while Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were okay about Jesus’ ministry, but it’s better to hear from Buddha Maitreya himself. Additionally, her group mainly focuses on the “Lost Gospels.” The Lost Gospels are basically a theory that Jesus, in the 18 years that we know next to nothing about between His childhood and ministry, went to India, did some stuff there, and travelled back to Israel to His thing. Of course, there’s no solid historical evidence for this, but this is what they roll with.
On my second question, her response was that some anonymous pastor/theologian in South Africa said that Buddha Maitreya was Jesus after listening to him. And with the third question, she just brushed that off entirely as absurd.
I hope y’all can detect the issues with her apologetic for this cult. If it wasn’t saying “I don’t know” or deflecting, it’s based on completely unverifiable sources or unsupported theories. It got to a point where we were both getting frustrated, her with the questions, and me with the lack of answers. Finally, she directed me to Buddha Maitreya’s YouTube channel, and I may do a deep dive post on him and his cult eventually.
Finally, the last person I’ll mention here is a dude I’m just going to call Wyatt. Originally, we thought he was a Wiccan, but actually, he was closer to a Luciferian. There are different types of Luciferians out there, but in his case, he believed that we are gods who came from some source that we later called “God,” and that we need to realize that we’re God to eventually reach our full potential as god at some point. Thus, Wyatt believed that he’s a god and that he can help other people reach their god-ness.
As we continued to question this belief, though, Wyatt started getting visibly flustered to the point where his neck was so red and splotchy that I was wondering if he was having an allergic reaction to something. Thankfully, we were able to end the conversation when my dad informed Mom and I that he had finally located a family friend who was also doing evangelism there.
So, that was my experience with the New Agers this time around. It’s honestly a depressing look at how easily people are deceived as long as they can feel like they are in control.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Bible #Blog #Buddhism #Christianity #Cults #faith #god #Hinduism #jesus #Luciferianism #NewAge #NewAgeExpo #OpinionPeice #PerennialWisdom #Reincarnation #Writing -
Blog: I Went to a New Age Expo (Stranger in a Strange Land) – Why are There so Many Kids Here? And What’s with Reincarnation?
Welp, it’s that time of year again. The birds are chirping, the flowers are coming up, the dang mosquitos are back for no other reason than to spite us, and the weather is as indecisive as Taylor Swift where it can’t decide what it wants to be. In other words, its spring, and that means that my local New Age expo is back in town, which means y’all get to hear about the madness.
This expo is one of four this year, with two happening in spring, one happening in mid-summer, and the last in early fall. However, from what I’ve heard from the people who went in previous years, the one we went to was the biggest one of the year. That said, I wasn’t surprised about the sheer number of people who were there. The convention hall was super crowded, but one of the things I wasn’t expecting about the crowd was how many kids were there. The majority of the crowd was female, so it was only natural that there would be some moms, but I wasn’t expecting the moms to bring their kids, ages ranging from babies to pre-teens. I saw one little boy holding a crystal wand in each hand as he sat and meditated at a booth, for crying out loud.
I can’t tell what’s worse: kids running around at Sephora, or kids running around at the New Age Expo. At least Sephora doesn’t have several booths selling psilocybin.
But besides the absurd number of kids there, the main thing that my family’s conversations with people revolved around was reincarnation. Now, I’ll stick to the three most interesting conversations we had with the people there for the sake of brevity, but all three are weird.
The first person we talked to was a lady who identified as Roman Catholic and believed in various Masters of Wisdom, particularly that Jesus is the Master of Love and Buddha is the Master of Wisdom. Further, she believed in perennial wisdom, which is the belief that there was once an ultimate truth or religion that got turned into the various beliefs and religions held by everyone today. Thus, everyone is on their own path to the ultimate source of everything as they gradually figure out and accept that they have the divine spark within them and reach enlightenment over the course of thousands or millions of reincarnation cycles.
She also believed that since everyone gets reincarnated, they basically have infinite attempts to get it right. If the planet blows up in the meantime, that’s fine. You’ll get transferred to a different planet. And if you do get it right and become some sort of super enlightened spiritual master, you can get transferred to another planet to help other people reach their enlightenment. Doesn’t that sound fun?
Now, for those of you who have read the Bible, you might be slightly confused about who the heck Jesus is to this lady and how He fits into her belief system. After all, she was saying that he’s one of the various Masters you can follow while the Bible says that He’s your only shot to Heaven. Well, when I brought up John 14:6 when Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” she said that Jesus is essentially the most enlightened person ever. He’s the gatekeeper to reaching God, so as the Master of Love, He’s the highest standard for everyone to follow to reach their divine spark.
Of course, that is not at all what Jesus meant in the Bible, but this is how she was interpreting it to fit with her worldview.
But that leaves the question of how Jesus reached such a high enlightenment status that He could claim to be God. According to her, it was through being unconditionally loving, thus reaching His full potential through the divine spark within, because God is love, whatever that’s defined as. It’s not like according to the Bible, while God is loving and merciful, He’s also just and must rain down His wrath on those who break His law or anything.
Overall, the path to the ultimate truth according to her was by being unconditionally loving and by following whatever truth fits you…which is entirely subjective and contradictory.
Another interesting conversation I had was with a member of what’s possibly the most obvious pseudo-Christian cult I’ve ever seen. This cult is called the Church of Shambhala Vajradhara Maitreya Sangha, and its leader is a dude who calls himself Buddha Maitreya and claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. As such, he believes that it’s his job to restore the Noosphere through Christ consciousness, amongst other things.
But what is the Noosphere? I’ll let him explain:
The Noosphere is the planetary sphere of mind or thinking layer of the planet Earth. To grasp the idea of the Noosphere, we must elevate our consciousness and open ourselves to the most general, elemental, and cosmic principles of life on Earth.
The Noosphere is the next stage in the evolution of human consciousness. As the mental sheathe of the planet, the Noosphere characterizes mind and consciousness as a unitary phenomenon. This means that the quality and nature of our individual and collective thoughts directly affects the Noosphere and creates the quality of our environment – the biosphere.
The historic process is changing dramatically before our eyes … Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity’s mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking Mankind as a single entity. This new state of the world we are approaching without noticing it, it is the ‘Noosphere’.
The return of Christ as the fulfillment of the Noosphere as well as the consummation of the universe. According to the Law of Time, the end of linear time begins the time of the Noosphere and the return of Christ Consciousness.But when will the return of Christ be if this dude is claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ? According to the lady I was talking to, who was a nun for this cult, the first coming occurred when Jesus came in His original body. After He died and was resurrected, she then said that He went to India (where He also spent His early years between 12 and 30), married, and somewhere along the line, was reincarnated in various forms, which is the second coming.
If you’re confused, I am too.
I asked her how that lined up with what the Bible (which she claimed to have read) says about the return of Jesus and how everyone will see Him and every knee will bow. Her response, like with many of the other questions I asked her, was, “I’m just a student.”
Some of the other questions I asked her included:
1). “Do you believe the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the actual teachings of Jesus during His first coming?”
2). “What evidence is there that Buddha Maitreya is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?”
3). “If karma is real,” – (they believe in karma) – “then if a woman is raped, then does she deserve it for something bad that she did in a past life?”
4). “What defines good and bad, or your concept of ‘virtue’?”
5). “What happens after we die? Do I get reincarnated or do I get to break out of that cycle?”
6). “If we’re constantly being reincarnated, then what purpose is there in repenting and following this guy if I’m still, maybe, going to get reincarnated?”
The answers to questions 4-6 could be summed up as, “I don’t know,” as she kept telling me, “I’m just a student. It’s better to hear ‘Jesus’ speak.” The other three questions, however, she did try to answer. On the first one, she said that while Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were okay about Jesus’ ministry, but it’s better to hear from Buddha Maitreya himself. Additionally, her group mainly focuses on the “Lost Gospels.” The Lost Gospels are basically a theory that Jesus, in the 18 years that we know next to nothing about between His childhood and ministry, went to India, did some stuff there, and travelled back to Israel to His thing. Of course, there’s no solid historical evidence for this, but this is what they roll with.
On my second question, her response was that some anonymous pastor/theologian in South Africa said that Buddha Maitreya was Jesus after listening to him. And with the third question, she just brushed that off entirely as absurd.
I hope y’all can detect the issues with her apologetic for this cult. If it wasn’t saying “I don’t know” or deflecting, it’s based on completely unverifiable sources or unsupported theories. It got to a point where we were both getting frustrated, her with the questions, and me with the lack of answers. Finally, she directed me to Buddha Maitreya’s YouTube channel, and I may do a deep dive post on him and his cult eventually.
Finally, the last person I’ll mention here is a dude I’m just going to call Wyatt. Originally, we thought he was a Wiccan, but actually, he was closer to a Luciferian. There are different types of Luciferians out there, but in his case, he believed that we are gods who came from some source that we later called “God,” and that we need to realize that we’re God to eventually reach our full potential as god at some point. Thus, Wyatt believed that he’s a god and that he can help other people reach their god-ness.
As we continued to question this belief, though, Wyatt started getting visibly flustered to the point where his neck was so red and splotchy that I was wondering if he was having an allergic reaction to something. Thankfully, we were able to end the conversation when my dad informed Mom and I that he had finally located a family friend who was also doing evangelism there.
So, that was my experience with the New Agers this time around. It’s honestly a depressing look at how easily people are deceived as long as they can feel like they are in control.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog: I Went to a New Age Expo (Stranger in a Strange Land) – Why are There so Many Kids Here? And What’s with Reincarnation?
Welp, it’s that time of year again. The birds are chirping, the flowers are coming up, the dang mosquitos are back for no other reason than to spite us, and the weather is as indecisive as Taylor Swift where it can’t decide what it wants to be. In other words, its spring, and that means that my local New Age expo is back in town, which means y’all get to hear about the madness.
This expo is one of four this year, with two happening in spring, one happening in mid-summer, and the last in early fall. However, from what I’ve heard from the people who went in previous years, the one we went to was the biggest one of the year. That said, I wasn’t surprised about the sheer number of people who were there. The convention hall was super crowded, but one of the things I wasn’t expecting about the crowd was how many kids were there. The majority of the crowd was female, so it was only natural that there would be some moms, but I wasn’t expecting the moms to bring their kids, ages ranging from babies to pre-teens. I saw one little boy holding a crystal wand in each hand as he sat and meditated at a booth, for crying out loud.
I can’t tell what’s worse: kids running around at Sephora, or kids running around at the New Age Expo. At least Sephora doesn’t have several booths selling psilocybin.
But besides the absurd number of kids there, the main thing that my family’s conversations with people revolved around was reincarnation. Now, I’ll stick to the three most interesting conversations we had with the people there for the sake of brevity, but all three are weird.
The first person we talked to was a lady who identified as Roman Catholic and believed in various Masters of Wisdom, particularly that Jesus is the Master of Love and Buddha is the Master of Wisdom. Further, she believed in perennial wisdom, which is the belief that there was once an ultimate truth or religion that got turned into the various beliefs and religions held by everyone today. Thus, everyone is on their own path to the ultimate source of everything as they gradually figure out and accept that they have the divine spark within them and reach enlightenment over the course of thousands or millions of reincarnation cycles.
She also believed that since everyone gets reincarnated, they basically have infinite attempts to get it right. If the planet blows up in the meantime, that’s fine. You’ll get transferred to a different planet. And if you do get it right and become some sort of super enlightened spiritual master, you can get transferred to another planet to help other people reach their enlightenment. Doesn’t that sound fun?
Now, for those of you who have read the Bible, you might be slightly confused about who the heck Jesus is to this lady and how He fits into her belief system. After all, she was saying that he’s one of the various Masters you can follow while the Bible says that He’s your only shot to Heaven. Well, when I brought up John 14:6 when Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” she said that Jesus is essentially the most enlightened person ever. He’s the gatekeeper to reaching God, so as the Master of Love, He’s the highest standard for everyone to follow to reach their divine spark.
Of course, that is not at all what Jesus meant in the Bible, but this is how she was interpreting it to fit with her worldview.
But that leaves the question of how Jesus reached such a high enlightenment status that He could claim to be God. According to her, it was through being unconditionally loving, thus reaching His full potential through the divine spark within, because God is love, whatever that’s defined as. It’s not like according to the Bible, while God is loving and merciful, He’s also just and must rain down His wrath on those who break His law or anything.
Overall, the path to the ultimate truth according to her was by being unconditionally loving and by following whatever truth fits you…which is entirely subjective and contradictory.
Another interesting conversation I had was with a member of what’s possibly the most obvious pseudo-Christian cult I’ve ever seen. This cult is called the Church of Shambhala Vajradhara Maitreya Sangha, and its leader is a dude who calls himself Buddha Maitreya and claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. As such, he believes that it’s his job to restore the Noosphere through Christ consciousness, amongst other things.
But what is the Noosphere? I’ll let him explain:
The Noosphere is the planetary sphere of mind or thinking layer of the planet Earth. To grasp the idea of the Noosphere, we must elevate our consciousness and open ourselves to the most general, elemental, and cosmic principles of life on Earth.
The Noosphere is the next stage in the evolution of human consciousness. As the mental sheathe of the planet, the Noosphere characterizes mind and consciousness as a unitary phenomenon. This means that the quality and nature of our individual and collective thoughts directly affects the Noosphere and creates the quality of our environment – the biosphere.
The historic process is changing dramatically before our eyes … Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity’s mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking Mankind as a single entity. This new state of the world we are approaching without noticing it, it is the ‘Noosphere’.
The return of Christ as the fulfillment of the Noosphere as well as the consummation of the universe. According to the Law of Time, the end of linear time begins the time of the Noosphere and the return of Christ Consciousness.But when will the return of Christ be if this dude is claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ? According to the lady I was talking to, who was a nun for this cult, the first coming occurred when Jesus came in His original body. After He died and was resurrected, she then said that He went to India (where He also spent His early years between 12 and 30), married, and somewhere along the line, was reincarnated in various forms, which is the second coming.
If you’re confused, I am too.
I asked her how that lined up with what the Bible (which she claimed to have read) says about the return of Jesus and how everyone will see Him and every knee will bow. Her response, like with many of the other questions I asked her, was, “I’m just a student.”
Some of the other questions I asked her included:
1). “Do you believe the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the actual teachings of Jesus during His first coming?”
2). “What evidence is there that Buddha Maitreya is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?”
3). “If karma is real,” – (they believe in karma) – “then if a woman is raped, then does she deserve it for something bad that she did in a past life?”
4). “What defines good and bad, or your concept of ‘virtue’?”
5). “What happens after we die? Do I get reincarnated or do I get to break out of that cycle?”
6). “If we’re constantly being reincarnated, then what purpose is there in repenting and following this guy if I’m still, maybe, going to get reincarnated?”
The answers to questions 4-6 could be summed up as, “I don’t know,” as she kept telling me, “I’m just a student. It’s better to hear ‘Jesus’ speak.” The other three questions, however, she did try to answer. On the first one, she said that while Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were okay about Jesus’ ministry, but it’s better to hear from Buddha Maitreya himself. Additionally, her group mainly focuses on the “Lost Gospels.” The Lost Gospels are basically a theory that Jesus, in the 18 years that we know next to nothing about between His childhood and ministry, went to India, did some stuff there, and travelled back to Israel to His thing. Of course, there’s no solid historical evidence for this, but this is what they roll with.
On my second question, her response was that some anonymous pastor/theologian in South Africa said that Buddha Maitreya was Jesus after listening to him. And with the third question, she just brushed that off entirely as absurd.
I hope y’all can detect the issues with her apologetic for this cult. If it wasn’t saying “I don’t know” or deflecting, it’s based on completely unverifiable sources or unsupported theories. It got to a point where we were both getting frustrated, her with the questions, and me with the lack of answers. Finally, she directed me to Buddha Maitreya’s YouTube channel, and I may do a deep dive post on him and his cult eventually.
Finally, the last person I’ll mention here is a dude I’m just going to call Wyatt. Originally, we thought he was a Wiccan, but actually, he was closer to a Luciferian. There are different types of Luciferians out there, but in his case, he believed that we are gods who came from some source that we later called “God,” and that we need to realize that we’re God to eventually reach our full potential as god at some point. Thus, Wyatt believed that he’s a god and that he can help other people reach their god-ness.
As we continued to question this belief, though, Wyatt started getting visibly flustered to the point where his neck was so red and splotchy that I was wondering if he was having an allergic reaction to something. Thankfully, we were able to end the conversation when my dad informed Mom and I that he had finally located a family friend who was also doing evangelism there.
So, that was my experience with the New Agers this time around. It’s honestly a depressing look at how easily people are deceived as long as they can feel like they are in control.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog: I Went to a New Age Expo (Stranger in a Strange Land) – Why are There so Many Kids Here? And What’s with Reincarnation?
Welp, it’s that time of year again. The birds are chirping, the flowers are coming up, the dang mosquitos are back for no other reason than to spite us, and the weather is as indecisive as Taylor Swift where it can’t decide what it wants to be. In other words, its spring, and that means that my local New Age expo is back in town, which means y’all get to hear about the madness.
This expo is one of four this year, with two happening in spring, one happening in mid-summer, and the last in early fall. However, from what I’ve heard from the people who went in previous years, the one we went to was the biggest one of the year. That said, I wasn’t surprised about the sheer number of people who were there. The convention hall was super crowded, but one of the things I wasn’t expecting about the crowd was how many kids were there. The majority of the crowd was female, so it was only natural that there would be some moms, but I wasn’t expecting the moms to bring their kids, ages ranging from babies to pre-teens. I saw one little boy holding a crystal wand in each hand as he sat and meditated at a booth, for crying out loud.
I can’t tell what’s worse: kids running around at Sephora, or kids running around at the New Age Expo. At least Sephora doesn’t have several booths selling psilocybin.
But besides the absurd number of kids there, the main thing that my family’s conversations with people revolved around was reincarnation. Now, I’ll stick to the three most interesting conversations we had with the people there for the sake of brevity, but all three are weird.
The first person we talked to was a lady who identified as Roman Catholic and believed in various Masters of Wisdom, particularly that Jesus is the Master of Love and Buddha is the Master of Wisdom. Further, she believed in perennial wisdom, which is the belief that there was once an ultimate truth or religion that got turned into the various beliefs and religions held by everyone today. Thus, everyone is on their own path to the ultimate source of everything as they gradually figure out and accept that they have the divine spark within them and reach enlightenment over the course of thousands or millions of reincarnation cycles.
She also believed that since everyone gets reincarnated, they basically have infinite attempts to get it right. If the planet blows up in the meantime, that’s fine. You’ll get transferred to a different planet. And if you do get it right and become some sort of super enlightened spiritual master, you can get transferred to another planet to help other people reach their enlightenment. Doesn’t that sound fun?
Now, for those of you who have read the Bible, you might be slightly confused about who the heck Jesus is to this lady and how He fits into her belief system. After all, she was saying that he’s one of the various Masters you can follow while the Bible says that He’s your only shot to Heaven. Well, when I brought up John 14:6 when Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” she said that Jesus is essentially the most enlightened person ever. He’s the gatekeeper to reaching God, so as the Master of Love, He’s the highest standard for everyone to follow to reach their divine spark.
Of course, that is not at all what Jesus meant in the Bible, but this is how she was interpreting it to fit with her worldview.
But that leaves the question of how Jesus reached such a high enlightenment status that He could claim to be God. According to her, it was through being unconditionally loving, thus reaching His full potential through the divine spark within, because God is love, whatever that’s defined as. It’s not like according to the Bible, while God is loving and merciful, He’s also just and must rain down His wrath on those who break His law or anything.
Overall, the path to the ultimate truth according to her was by being unconditionally loving and by following whatever truth fits you…which is entirely subjective and contradictory.
Another interesting conversation I had was with a member of what’s possibly the most obvious pseudo-Christian cult I’ve ever seen. This cult is called the Church of Shambhala Vajradhara Maitreya Sangha, and its leader is a dude who calls himself Buddha Maitreya and claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. As such, he believes that it’s his job to restore the Noosphere through Christ consciousness, amongst other things.
But what is the Noosphere? I’ll let him explain:
The Noosphere is the planetary sphere of mind or thinking layer of the planet Earth. To grasp the idea of the Noosphere, we must elevate our consciousness and open ourselves to the most general, elemental, and cosmic principles of life on Earth.
The Noosphere is the next stage in the evolution of human consciousness. As the mental sheathe of the planet, the Noosphere characterizes mind and consciousness as a unitary phenomenon. This means that the quality and nature of our individual and collective thoughts directly affects the Noosphere and creates the quality of our environment – the biosphere.
The historic process is changing dramatically before our eyes … Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity’s mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking Mankind as a single entity. This new state of the world we are approaching without noticing it, it is the ‘Noosphere’.
The return of Christ as the fulfillment of the Noosphere as well as the consummation of the universe. According to the Law of Time, the end of linear time begins the time of the Noosphere and the return of Christ Consciousness.But when will the return of Christ be if this dude is claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ? According to the lady I was talking to, who was a nun for this cult, the first coming occurred when Jesus came in His original body. After He died and was resurrected, she then said that He went to India (where He also spent His early years between 12 and 30), married, and somewhere along the line, was reincarnated in various forms, which is the second coming.
If you’re confused, I am too.
I asked her how that lined up with what the Bible (which she claimed to have read) says about the return of Jesus and how everyone will see Him and every knee will bow. Her response, like with many of the other questions I asked her, was, “I’m just a student.”
Some of the other questions I asked her included:
1). “Do you believe the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the actual teachings of Jesus during His first coming?”
2). “What evidence is there that Buddha Maitreya is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?”
3). “If karma is real,” – (they believe in karma) – “then if a woman is raped, then does she deserve it for something bad that she did in a past life?”
4). “What defines good and bad, or your concept of ‘virtue’?”
5). “What happens after we die? Do I get reincarnated or do I get to break out of that cycle?”
6). “If we’re constantly being reincarnated, then what purpose is there in repenting and following this guy if I’m still, maybe, going to get reincarnated?”
The answers to questions 4-6 could be summed up as, “I don’t know,” as she kept telling me, “I’m just a student. It’s better to hear ‘Jesus’ speak.” The other three questions, however, she did try to answer. On the first one, she said that while Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were okay about Jesus’ ministry, but it’s better to hear from Buddha Maitreya himself. Additionally, her group mainly focuses on the “Lost Gospels.” The Lost Gospels are basically a theory that Jesus, in the 18 years that we know next to nothing about between His childhood and ministry, went to India, did some stuff there, and travelled back to Israel to His thing. Of course, there’s no solid historical evidence for this, but this is what they roll with.
On my second question, her response was that some anonymous pastor/theologian in South Africa said that Buddha Maitreya was Jesus after listening to him. And with the third question, she just brushed that off entirely as absurd.
I hope y’all can detect the issues with her apologetic for this cult. If it wasn’t saying “I don’t know” or deflecting, it’s based on completely unverifiable sources or unsupported theories. It got to a point where we were both getting frustrated, her with the questions, and me with the lack of answers. Finally, she directed me to Buddha Maitreya’s YouTube channel, and I may do a deep dive post on him and his cult eventually.
Finally, the last person I’ll mention here is a dude I’m just going to call Wyatt. Originally, we thought he was a Wiccan, but actually, he was closer to a Luciferian. There are different types of Luciferians out there, but in his case, he believed that we are gods who came from some source that we later called “God,” and that we need to realize that we’re God to eventually reach our full potential as god at some point. Thus, Wyatt believed that he’s a god and that he can help other people reach their god-ness.
As we continued to question this belief, though, Wyatt started getting visibly flustered to the point where his neck was so red and splotchy that I was wondering if he was having an allergic reaction to something. Thankfully, we were able to end the conversation when my dad informed Mom and I that he had finally located a family friend who was also doing evangelism there.
So, that was my experience with the New Agers this time around. It’s honestly a depressing look at how easily people are deceived as long as they can feel like they are in control.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Bible #Blog #Buddhism #Christianity #Cults #faith #god #Hinduism #jesus #Luciferianism #NewAge #NewAgeExpo #OpinionPeice #PerennialWisdom #Reincarnation #Writing -
If the #Judaism/ #Christianity/ #Islam #Religions weren't the paradigm running the modern global economy and legal structure, our lives would be radically different. #Shinto, #Buddhism, #Hinduism, Animism of every kind. Even early Greek, Roman, or Egyptian pantheism.
Consider it. Would it be better? Worse?
People love to blame #Capitalism, but the historic alternative worldwide was feudalism.
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We need a worldwide reformation movement to reform the world's religions to be environmentalist, feminist, anti-racist, socialist/communist, democratic, etc. #socialism #communism #anarchism #Christianity #Islam #Judaism #Hinduism #Buddhism #Taoism
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We need a worldwide reformation movement to reform the world's religions to be environmentalist, feminist, anti-racist, socialist/communist, democratic, etc. #socialism #communism #anarchism #Christianity #Islam #Judaism #Hinduism #Buddhism #Taoism
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We need a worldwide reformation movement to reform the world's religions to be environmentalist, feminist, anti-racist, socialist/communist, democratic, etc. #socialism #communism #anarchism #Christianity #Islam #Judaism #Hinduism #Buddhism #Taoism
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We need a worldwide reformation movement to reform the world's religions to be environmentalist, feminist, anti-racist, socialist/communist, democratic, etc. #socialism #communism #anarchism #Christianity #Islam #Judaism #Hinduism #Buddhism #Taoism
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We need a worldwide reformation movement to reform the world's religions to be environmentalist, feminist, anti-racist, socialist/communist, democratic, etc. #socialism #communism #anarchism #Christianity #Islam #Judaism #Hinduism #Buddhism #Taoism
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Los templos de las cuevas de Badami son un complejo budista, hindú y jainista fueron construidos durante la dinastía Chalukya (543-753 d.C.), que gobernó en la meseta del Decán. Entre ellos se encuentra el templo hindú más antiguo de la región, dedicado a Visnú. 📷Vladimir Kochadykov (Владимир Кочадыков) #india #budismo #buddhism #hinduismo #hinduism #jainismo #jainism
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Los templos de las cuevas de Badami son un complejo budista, hindú y jainista fueron construidos durante la dinastía Chalukya (543-753 d.C.), que gobernó en la meseta del Decán. Entre ellos se encuentra el templo hindú más antiguo de la región, dedicado a Visnú. 📷Vladimir Kochadykov (Владимир Кочадыков) #india #budismo #buddhism #hinduismo #hinduism #jainismo #jainism
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Los templos de las cuevas de Badami son un complejo budista, hindú y jainista fueron construidos durante la dinastía Chalukya (543-753 d.C.), que gobernó en la meseta del Decán. Entre ellos se encuentra el templo hindú más antiguo de la región, dedicado a Visnú. 📷Vladimir Kochadykov (Владимир Кочадыков) #india #budismo #buddhism #hinduismo #hinduism #jainismo #jainism
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Los templos de las cuevas de Badami son un complejo budista, hindú y jainista fueron construidos durante la dinastía Chalukya (543-753 d.C.), que gobernó en la meseta del Decán. Entre ellos se encuentra el templo hindú más antiguo de la región, dedicado a Visnú. 📷Vladimir Kochadykov (Владимир Кочадыков) #india #budismo #buddhism #hinduismo #hinduism #jainismo #jainism
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Grecia: Yoga este absolut incompatibilă cu credinţa noastră ortodoxă şi nu îşi are loc în viaţa creştinilor Sinodul asigură că a decis să intervină, după ce „mai multe mass-media” au recomandat yoga pentru „combaterea stresului” în timpul pandemiei de coronavirus. 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/qbmzl 👈 #BisericaGreacă #BisericaOrtodoxăAGreciei #Coronavirus #Hinduism #Ortodoxă #religie #SfântulSinod #Sinodul #Yoga
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Book Review: The Yugas
According to Hindu theology, humanity goes through a 24,000 year cycle of growth and decline. According to Sri Yukteswar and Yogi Paramhansa, we passed the second phase of an upward swing around 1900.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=24&id=219
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Nonna Was Right! Italian Cuisine Wins a Place on UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage List
NEW DELHI, Dec 10 (Reuters) – U.N. cultural agency UNESCO re…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianculinary ##Hinduism #Collections:World #culinary #culinarytraditions #EUROPE #europeanunion #india #Italia #Italian #ItalianCulinary #Italianculinarytraditions #italiano #italy #reuters #WorldNews
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Nonna Was Right! Italian Cuisine Wins a Place on UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage List https://www.diningandcooking.com/2597404/nonna-was-right-italian-cuisine-wins-a-place-on-unescos-cultural-heritage-list/ ##Hinduism #Collections:World #culinary #CulinaryTraditions #EUROPE #EuropeanUnion #india #Italia #Italian #ItalianCulinary #ItalianCulinaryTraditions #italiano #italy #reuters #WorldNews
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Hitherto Unblogged Poems from My Latest Book “The Seeking Soul” — https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0G4KCHV3W
The Corridor of Uncertainty
My buddy AV Satish Chandra
Now retired as prof of pol sci
From OU, tired as he already was
With the politics there
(Sigh, the gap, always a gap,
Between theory and practice)
Said to me more than a decade ago
With a humility that scholars have
He is ok to be walking
In the “corridor of uncertainty”
And with him then I would not agree
Hurts to agree most of the time
You may not have it all figured out
Now that I am older and wiser
I am inclined to tip my hat to him
And say, “Spoken like Socrates, chum”.(AV Satish Chandra’s author page on Amazon — https://www.amazon.in/stores/author/B07TBWHH59)
The Search
I searched for God
But settled
For the girl next door
Who knows what I found
And what I did not.
What I See
Standing in the balcony
As it drizzles
I stretch out my hands
To feel the rain droplets
On my fingers
I see across the street
Two children playing with paper boats
And in front of the yonder house
I see a brand new hearse.
The Winter
It’s freezing
Leaves are all gone
I stand bare, half-smiling,
Knowing
Spring, too, will come
And trouble me
This year-round rigmarole.
She
She smiled
I smiled back
Without knowing
Why she smiled.
The Restraint
The lottery we never buy
Can haunt us for a lifetime.
The Truth That I Seek
I can never find
The truth that I seek
Assume I find it
How can I tell
It is the truth.
The Ultimate Paradox of Life
I keep saying
“I do not want to exist”
Yet how could I have said it
If I had never been born.
Does She Love Me?
I wanted to ask her
“Do you love me?”
Then let it go
I who was not sure
What love was.
Transience
The leaf on the tree
wonders
Which wind
Will separate them both.
The Flow
It started raining
And I got all confused
Which was my tear drop
And which the rain drop.
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Mt. Ikoma (生駒山) looms over Ōsaka, and there is a cable car to the summit. Since the Edo Period, Hōzanji (Treasure Mountain Temple) has been a unique pilgrimage destination devoted to a Japanese version of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh. The mountaintop has a sheer cliff where ascetic practices evidently took place. Staff told me in Japanese that the visible statue is Miroku (Maitreya in Sanskrit, the Future Buddha), placed up there 350 years ago, no doubt with difficulty. Seeing statues of Kūkai amid the syncretism (mixing) of Buddhism, Shintō, Hinduism, and folk religion like the Seven Lucky Gods, and the sacred mountain, I guessed correctly that it was a Shingon sect temple. The university where I taught before retirement, near Ōsaka Castle, although Christian, starts its college song with an ode to Mt. Ikoma, harking back to prehistoric mountain worship.
Free publications: https://japanned.hcommons.org
#Japan #Buddhism #temple #mountain #Hinduism #religion #travel #photography #photos
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Bhagavad Gita — Chapter 2, Verse 47
You have the right to perform your actions,
but not to the results of those actions.
Focus on your duty.
Let go of expectations.
Peace will follow🩷#BhagavadGita #Gita #Krishna #Spirituality #Wisdom #Hinduism #Meditation
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Women were made to look pretty and be loved, not to involve their pretty little heads in political or business matters, says the church's assistant pastor Corbin Clarke. His wife agrees, saying that "God" designed things to work that way.
This model is coming for all of us sooner than we think, is going to be imposed on all of us, if we stand by and let that happen.
#WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #women #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ #Catholic #Islam #Hinduism
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Partridge's message:
"On social media, the pastor has attracted a following by posting incendiary commentary: railing against feminists, Catholics and gay people, describing immigration as 'national suicide,' and labeling Islam and Hinduism 'demonic.' He also calls for erasing women’s suffrage, which he lists as one reason 'the world is falling apart.'”
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Australian Human Rights Commission investigates alleged racial discrimination by NSW government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/05/alleged-racial-discrimination-by-nsw-government-investigated-by-human-rights-commission #NewSouthWalesPolitics #NewSouthWales #Race #AustraliaNews #Islamophobia #Hinduism
