Rendszeres

Having once completed a three thousand mile pro life trek across America I recently found it interesting when a Catholic friend of mine mentioned the fact that a Buddhist proffeser of his was very pro life. “Why was this?” I wondered. Because in Buddhism it is maintained that the chance of being incarnated as a human is so remote it is as if a yoke were floating on the surface of the an ocean and every three thousand years a turtle swims to the surface and puts its head through it. Being a human being is special.”

Even so, from my perspective as a novice spiritual searcher. looking at religions from the unselfish perspective that Bill Wilson’s initiation provides. It seems to me that generic Buddhism is focused on the self. Because there are no saviours involved it is often claimed by adherents that it is not a religion but in the sense that religion is a systematic view of reality it is the archetypal religion with a perfectly homogenious eschatological continuity.

But one thing that is infallible in the Spiritual Life is that all we have is the present. Wilson’s first step is in itself a demand that we acknowledge that our lives are unmanageable. If we have come through this and jumped through the fiery hoop that is the acknowledgement of all our pasts faults to the Guatama like realisation that our life is not our own then we are absolutely convinced that life is short to worry about the next few.  For the good we become spiritually blinkered and the pressing situation of friends, dependants and the needy of our communities is what we happily settle down to.

I don’t believe in reincarnation,

I’m not coming back as a flower.

I don’t bow my head to Kings or Priests ‘cos I believe in Your Higher Power.

The Proclaimers 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcFYR0-oxM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9GmieAEaQ

A Higher Power If there is logical. If there is not something that situates ourselves outside of ourselves then religion also becomes self serving. A God who IS the source of the Platonic forms must be otherwise why are our internal lives generally orientated towrds them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEF7IoQ3eUk