Can you sum up your religion in one scriptural verse?
If so, what verse would that be?
If not, why not?
If so, what verse would that be?
If not, why not?
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Sum Up Your Religion in One Verse
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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Its not scripture but its a verse...
"Lad, I don't know where you've been, but I see you've won first prize"
"Lad, I don't know where you've been, but I see you've won first prize"
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
"As all things are buddha-dharma, there is delusion, realisation, practice, birth and death, buddhas and sentient beings. As myriad things are without an abiding self, there is no delusion, no realisation, no buddha, no sentient being, no birth and death."
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An all-encompassing way of life is too pithy to be (over)simplified into a catch phrase.
It... probably doesn't help that my religion doesn't have scripture. Stop reading and go outside, ye gits!
It... probably doesn't help that my religion doesn't have scripture. Stop reading and go outside, ye gits!
Sachchidananda tvat tvam asi.
"That which is True, Real and blissful fullness of Awareness and Knowledge....know That is what you yourself truly are.“
This is question asked to Rabbi Hillel by an unbeliever .. challenged him to summarize the entire Torah while standing on one foot.
Rabbi Hillel was very famous and very old ~ 100 when Jesus sat on his knee and learned the Golden Rule .. to the challenger he replied "Don't do to others what you hate - the rest is all commentary - now go and learn"
You will find the same teaching in the Sermon on the Mount Matt 7:12 -- "Do unto others what you would have done to you -- This rule sums up the law and the prophets"
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord demands of you; but to do justice, to love loving-kindness, and to walk discreetly with your God.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
My signature:
"Some days I pray for silence;
Some days I pray for soul;
Some days I just pray to the God
Of Sex and Drums and Rock n' Roll."
-Jim Steinman
"Some days I pray for silence;
Some days I pray for soul;
Some days I just pray to the God
Of Sex and Drums and Rock n' Roll."
-Jim Steinman
Spice
StewardshipPeaceIntergityCommunityEquality
And the same teaching belongs to at least 9 other religions....it's that important!
Namaste
I don't have a scripture. But it boils down to: "Hail and welcome, all my human and other-than-human kinfolk!"
and also in law codes Hamurabbi - and the one before that .. and also Confucius .. and I assume we are Calling Buddhism a religion
It is God trying to communicate to us
This is probably the best summary:
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
John 8:31-32
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:34
John 13:34
PureX
Veteran Member
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The unnamable is the eternally real. While naming is the origin of all particular things.
Free from desire you realize the mystery. Caught in desire you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding."
- from the Tao Te Ching
The unnamable is the eternally real. While naming is the origin of all particular things.
Free from desire you realize the mystery. Caught in desire you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding."
- from the Tao Te Ching
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