19 February 2009
If Jesus Were Preaching Today
Section: Spiritual mind - Category: Christianism
by Paramhansa Yogananda, from East-West Magazine, Sept-Oct 1926
This article holds even more truth in nowadays America. So here you are ...
If Jesus were preaching today to an American audience, his message would not be, "Sell all ye have and give to the poor; Take no heed for the morrow, what ye shall eat, what ye shall put on." These and other beautiful sayings of Jesus could not be strictly applied in the West today.
These teachings were applicable to the East two thousand years ago, where climatic and social factors made it possible to live much more simply than is generally possible today. Then, a little labor would suffice to gain the necessities of life. Warm climate simplified the problem of clothing and housing.
21 December 2008
Jesus
Section: Spiritual mind - Category: Christianism
I watched recently this Internet underground movie : Zeitgeist . Interesting. The first part is about Jesus. Let me rephrase that: it is about similarities between the Christian core beliefs and previous religions. The striking resemblance is between the story of Egyptian god Horus and Jesus. Born on December 25th, the third day after the winter solstice for Egyptians, from a virgin, was killed and resurrected.
Sure enough this is not an made up story or conspiracy to deceive you and me into becoming atheists. The Egyptian Horus' story was carved in stone thousands of years befor Jesus' time. There is deception though at the level of the organized religion. Jesus was institutionalized and used for worldly petty advantages of those in charge. Was Jesus a real person? Did he exist? It doesn't matter. What he simbolizes is more important. His story is an ideal that insipired many genuine believers. These believers hold Jesus in their hearts: devine is a personal experience. The very same experience is shared among all the religions. This is eventually the key to a better world.
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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.Eric Hoffer



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