2006-09-26 05:12:50 · 25 answers · asked by wakeup i 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exaggeration in size and numbers is used purposefully in wisdom teachingws to shatter the boundaries of our minds. Mystically oriented traditions, such as BUDDHISM and HINDUISM, often used the device of overstatement in their primary texts. In BUDDHISM it is said: "Buddha shall have a thousand millionfold worlds equal in number to the sands of the Ganges. There should be a multitude numbering incalculable---thousands of myriads of millions." In the Hindu tales, King Nagnajit provides his daughter, Satya, the following dowry for her marriage to Krishna: "Ten thousand cows, nine thousand elephants, nine hundred thousand chariots, ninety million horses, and nine billion slaves." And this was only one of many thousand of wives taken by Krishna!
The sheer magnitude of ideas such as these bursts the limits of our reality. We immediately appreciate the fact that mystical teachings transcend normal thought processes. In many ways, the literal translation of the biblical stories of Adam, Eve, and the Garden of Eden in human proportions is a major disservice, for this invites comparisons, projections, and simplistic interpretations that frequently put us on a track of distorted images and wrong headed deductions.
The mystical perspective, however, imposes an altered frame of reference upon from the start.
Do I feel sorry for the lost souls of hindus and buddhists? Not any more than the sorry I feel for the lost souls of christians?
2006-09-26 05:31:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not hindu or buddhist, but I do feel sorry for lost souls. People who are unhappy, mentally ill, who have no purpose or direction in life, are negative....those are what I call lost souls.
2006-09-26 06:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im a Buddhist and i feel sorry for the lost souls, I mean christians.
2006-09-26 15:34:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yea I style of do with the aid of fact it sucks to make it that a good distance and then lose, somewhat if the team has in no way gained or hasn't gained in a protracted time. If the Bruins lose i'm going to experience slightly undesirable with the aid of fact that is been 40 years for them, yet I nonetheless want Vancouver to win.
2016-10-18 00:23:18 · answer #4 · answered by hosford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all, no one can really say which religion is the "right" one. Ultimately, we all are taking a risk, but that's faith. They have theirs, you have yours. By the sounds of it, you seem pretty sure yours is the "right" one. I believe that kind of Pride is a mortal sin. You should not judge, that is for a higher power. Anyway, whom do they harm, theirs' is a religion of peace that practises what it preaches, the same cannot always be said of other faiths including Christian.
2006-09-26 05:17:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Who are you to say they are lost souls? Ever think you might be the lost soul?
2006-09-26 05:18:08 · answer #6 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The only lost souls are those who fail to see the higher power in any religion other than theirs.
2006-09-26 05:17:49 · answer #7 · answered by Dala C 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Someone who follows Buddhism is anything but lost. That religion has a lot of good stuff in it. It seems to be very peaceful. Maybe they're lost in Christian eyes, but I doubt the followers honestly care.
2006-09-26 05:16:06 · answer #8 · answered by . 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Only when they're being pestered by people calling them "lost souls" and trying to change their religion.
2006-09-26 05:17:11 · answer #9 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I feel sorry for the lost minds that believe in souls.
2006-09-26 05:15:38 · answer #10 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋