Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I love Buddhism. I love how studying and practice makes my experience in life a bit better a little at a time. I have challenges with some aspects of my faith I don't quite understand. I am building a community to exchange fellowship and study with like-minds. Spirituality is not easy, I am sure.
We talk a lot about how wonderful our faiths are. We also talk about how we will never change your faith for anything. We put it on the highest pedestle. My question is, are there some things about your faith that you kind of get fustrated with? Not the type of fustration where doubt comes in; you believe what you believe one hundred percent. I mean more like your parent. You love your parent to death; but, there are some things that get on your nerves and you know the lessons behind those things when you get older.
I rarely meet someone who actually, how do I say, is completely satisfied with their faith. It is more, I am happy where I am, it is making me grow, and there are some things that challenge me--in my faith, practice, or so have you and that does not make me turn away regardless. It's like climbing a mountain. You may stop, look down and think "maybe I should go back" and you don't.
Have you ever had times where you "looked back" or had feelings about your faith you struggle with (which is natural and not something I'm saying is wrong)?
I honestly don't believe people can be one hundred percent comfortable with their spiritual faith because, like parenthood, we know there are some things about our children we cannot quite understand and maybe not quite love (as in behavior), but regardless, they are our children.... that's what matters.
Nam.
We talk a lot about how wonderful our faiths are. We also talk about how we will never change your faith for anything. We put it on the highest pedestle. My question is, are there some things about your faith that you kind of get fustrated with? Not the type of fustration where doubt comes in; you believe what you believe one hundred percent. I mean more like your parent. You love your parent to death; but, there are some things that get on your nerves and you know the lessons behind those things when you get older.
I rarely meet someone who actually, how do I say, is completely satisfied with their faith. It is more, I am happy where I am, it is making me grow, and there are some things that challenge me--in my faith, practice, or so have you and that does not make me turn away regardless. It's like climbing a mountain. You may stop, look down and think "maybe I should go back" and you don't.
Have you ever had times where you "looked back" or had feelings about your faith you struggle with (which is natural and not something I'm saying is wrong)?
I honestly don't believe people can be one hundred percent comfortable with their spiritual faith because, like parenthood, we know there are some things about our children we cannot quite understand and maybe not quite love (as in behavior), but regardless, they are our children.... that's what matters.
Nam.