Often I see similarities with my faith and things that I can learn from and incorporate from Buddhism. We address similar issues, use many similar methods, from forms of meditation, yogic postures, mantras, visualizations and breathing techniques found in both Buddhist and Qabalistic mysticism and forms of Judaism. I think the biggest misunderstanding is that when Buddhists revere the Buddha to the discomfort of Jews, they are revering the Buddha in all, the Ruach, inside all life, connecting us
...All go to one place; all came from the dust, and all return to the dust. Who knows that the spirit of the children of men is that which ascends on high and the spirit of the beast is that which descends below to the earth?
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 18-21. I said to myself, [that this is] because of the children of men, so that God should clarify for them, so that they may see that they are [like] beasts to themselves. For there is a happening for the children of men, and there is a happening for the beasts-and they have one happening-like the death of this one is the death of that one, and all have one spirit, and the superiority of man over beast is nought, for all is vanity (emptiness)...
Often I see similarities with my faith and things that I can learn from and incorporate from Buddhism. We address similar issues, use many similar methods, from forms of meditation, yogic postures, mantras, visualizations and breathing techniques found in both Buddhist and Qabalistic mysticism and forms of Judaism. I think the biggest misunderstanding is that when Buddhists revere the Buddha to the discomfort of Jews, they are revering the Buddha in all, the Ruach, inside all life, connecting us
IssuniYehudi 1 year ago
...All go to one place; all came from the dust, and all return to the dust. Who knows that the spirit of the children of men is that which ascends on high and the spirit of the beast is that which descends below to the earth?
IssuniYehudi 1 year ago
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 18-21. I said to myself, [that this is] because of the children of men, so that God should clarify for them, so that they may see that they are [like] beasts to themselves. For there is a happening for the children of men, and there is a happening for the beasts-and they have one happening-like the death of this one is the death of that one, and all have one spirit, and the superiority of man over beast is nought, for all is vanity (emptiness)...
IssuniYehudi 1 year ago
This is beautiful. Thank you so much. May all beings be happy and create the causes of happiness.
TurquoiseLamp 1 year ago