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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by CB..
i consider most religions to be some sort of inteligence test...if you believe it ..you failed..if you disbelieve it..you failed..if you simply understand the need for religious thought... you passed...religious thought must evolve along with everything else..it's a big universe.... the Sun does not orbit the Earth...
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I've always believed that the true concept of God is beyond our pitifiul human ability to fully comprehend. All religions are therefore little more than flawed attempts to explain the unexplainable, very simililar to the way one uses analogies and stories to explain things like right and wrong to children. |
The One Essence that could be known,
Is not the essence of the Unknowable.
The idea that could be imagined,
Is not the image of the Eternal.
Nameless is the all-One, is inner Essence.
Known by names is the all-Many, is outer form.
Resting without desires, means to reach the invisible inside.
Acting with desires, means to stay by the limited outside.
The all-One and the all-Many are of the same origin,
Different only in appearance and in name.
What they have in common is the wonder of being.
The secret of this wonder
Is the gate to true understanding.
TaoTeKing, verse 1, translated into English by my own German translation.