Hi there 1tim115. :)
And indeed,there is a long tradition of friendship and deep spiritual connection between the Americans and the Indians, even though they are on opposite sides of the globe.
America itself was first found by Christopher Colombus, who came in an audacious voyage looking...
Impressively well said.
These were my own thoughts as well, which you articulated so well over here.
This materialistic streak in him is also the reason for his obsession with the AIT , which others have discarded, and which in itself reeks of materialism, and brings to mind a few psychos of...
The Supreme Being is Brahman, the allpervading consciousness which comprises everything including you.
Sat Chit Anand -- Truth ,Being ,Bliss.
This is our true nature.
I have answered it clearly in my post.Read it again.
Again , irrevalent arguments.
And was Ayodhya, among the area...
It is dead and buried in the museum of history.It was staunchly opposed by the hindu intellingentsia as well, in the light of the scriptures and archaeological and scientific discoveries.
It was a propaganda piece that came from Victorian England ,during the colonial era, implanted for 'divide...
That is your views, which is not not at all heard of in Hinduism. Jnana yoga ( yoga of the intellect ) considers Brahman as the impersonal absolute. And Bhakti yoga considers Brahman too as the sureme Being.
Your views are something very new in Hinduism, but thats okay, as Hinduism has the...
Yes, this is the concept of Brahman. All the deities and gods are but manifestation of the one supreme Being Brahman, and symbolise the attributes of Brahman.
Hinduism is basically monistic, though I have no problems with polytheistic sects or religions worshipping the divine in their own...
If you have read the ' The Power of Now ' by Eckhart Tolle, which extolls zen, then all you have to do is to live in the present moment. It is as simple as that.
Living in the present moment is meditation.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Also as Vivekananda said and did, it perhaps would be a good...
Lets analyse this verse from the Yoga Vasistha, which is a part of the Ramayana, a sacred and important scripture of the Hindus ...
Vasishta to Prince Rama.
Yoga Vasishta Ramayan (II-18) says:
Though human in origin, an exposition of truth is to be accepted; otherwise even what is regarded...
TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN REBEL WITH A CAUSE
Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
---Thomas Paine
Ludicrous. I have asked in the OP for quotations or teachings of the Buddha on intuition, in his own words. I have not got them yet.
Look Vandervalley, the Buddha talks about the importance of reasoning and logic. It appears u don't employ them very well. That would make u a bad buddhist...
TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN REBEL WITH A CAUSE
Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
---Thomas Paine
Quotes on Thomas Paine
"Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty."
-- President Andrew Jackson
I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in...
First of all, I wish to say I am very honoured to speak on Thomas Paine, whom I consider to be one of the greatest men who ever walked on earth.
I read this when I was in school and I have never forgotten it all these years. This is one of the most powerful quotes I have ever read in my life...
All religion is about accessing the superconscious state, and finding the truth through intuition. And the intuition of the enlightened master or the buddha, is the greatest state that intuition can achieve.
Enlightenment, the perpetual state of the no-mind, is the state where intuitions are...
And here is what an another wise middleaged american friend of mine said in an another forum,( where I put this same thread)when I complained about Paines obscurity.....
****Its is much worse then you think. A few years ago there was a show called the greatest american. People could call in...