I always saw people fighting about fact, mostly between christian and Islam. Can someone from who is Budhist/Hindu state their opinion?
2006-12-20 18:04:39 · 9 answers · asked by dafiahmad 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please do mind your languange. No cursing or bashing other religion. Please do state your opinion in a mindful and open manner?
2006-12-20 18:21:25 · update #1
Hinduism believes that no particular religion teaches the only way to salvation above all others, but that all religious paths are facets of God's pure love and light, deserving tolerance and understanding.
2006-12-20 18:26:41 · answer #1 · answered by rav142857 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hinduism regards all other religions with respect and believe every religion is the path to sekf relization.Even if other religions descriminate it,Hinduism does not discriminate other religions.Its the basic Hindu motto.Religion is like a river all going to the same path.And thats the sea.Not a lot of people really understand Hinduism and so will discriminate it.Its monotheistic.Thats how much info I can give without probably covering 1 million Yahoo answers pages.
2006-12-21 02:16:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We in Hinduism, donot hate other religion and its followers , Not only ppl from other religion but also Atheist, Agnotics, Gnotics. We accept that there are several way to GOD.
2006-12-21 02:39:59 · answer #3 · answered by senthil r 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion is wast/big subject and sensitive so i guess it is not possible that Buddhist/Hindu hold some particular type opinion about other religion i think opinion vary from person to person
2006-12-22 02:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by nirmalketan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the basic things in Hinduism/Buddhism is FIRM belief in ONE GOD....
....But the path chosen by different cultures at different times may vary....
And since The supreme Father is one why to dispute if they are praying to the same Father....
2006-12-21 02:48:09 · answer #5 · answered by pathik 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hinduism is very flexible towaeds other religion
the sole aim of life is to achieve salvation
we believe that there may be infinite paths or gods but they r incarnations of a single god. god is ONE with many forms
though hinduism approves of all religions of reaching god but my personal opinion differs
PERSONAL OPINION
christians : they r trying to fool the poor masses and converting them to christianity. such christians suck
muslims: the soul aim of their lives is to suppress hindus
they took 30 percent of india in 1947 but didnot leave the country. now they r breeding like pigs
sikhs an offshoot of hindus and really nice community
2006-12-21 02:16:18 · answer #6 · answered by anuragmaken 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I find Hinduism and Buddhism to be so INTERESTING
i love reading the philosophy behind both
2006-12-21 09:09:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hindu dumb followers are bathing brass hindu figures in milk . waste of milk. and a living to the priest.
2006-12-21 02:16:43 · answer #8 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Paths may be different but the destination is the same
U have the choice u can pick any path
Why shouldn’t I indulge in sensation?
You attempt to remove inner incompletion through indulgence. You feel different sensations would give you completion. But the greed for sensations increases incompletion. The desire for more makes you want more rather than feel complete.
During sleep there is no wanting, as you are complete. This does not mean condemning your sense organs. Keep them alive and pure. Sensations are fine as long as you do not get addicted to them. An addiction happens in ignorance.
How should I relax?
Learn the art of balancing life. Do not put all your eggs into one basket. Learn to open your body centre through exercise, yoga, deep breathing... learn to open your mind. There is joy when you learn and when you keep your mind open to new possibilities. Learn to open up your bliss centre.
A prince met Lord Buddha whose ‘presence’ and ‘being’ inspired him to be a monk. The prince was a great musician and led a luxurious life. After initiation, he went to the other extreme. He renounced everything. He started fasting vigorously and walked on thorns.Buddha inquired, “If the strands of the guitar are very loose, can you play good music?” “No”, replied the prince. “If the strands of the guitar are very tight, can you still play good music?” “No”, replied the prince.
“Don’t go to extremes, it is only through right tuning of the strands that you can play good music. Similarly, balance your life well and automatically music would flow into your life”, advised Lord Buddha.
What steps should I take in order to relax? >>
What steps should I take in order to relax?
Mostly, tensions emerge from the way your mind transcribes your experience. For example, a student might enjoy running but when it is made a punishment, running creates tension. The stronger the waves, the more a surfer enjoys it. He is totally present in the moment. There are no interfering thoughts in him. In such space something in him makes him very alive to the life around him.
Be in the present, it is joyful. Live from the ‘higher self’, not from the ‘lower self’. The ‘higher self’ encourages you, as it is filled with positiveness. The ‘lower self’ is an interfering self. It discourages you. It acts more like an obstacle.
Relax your body and mind. When thoughts emerge, see them as a wonder. See the beauty of your thoughts. Do not fight with them. See them like a play. Slowly, you create a synergy with your thoughts. But whenever possible, be without thoughts. Learn the art of being empty. Do not verbalise an experience. Then your mind relaxes.
What is the difference between an ambitious and a meditative attitude ?
It is like darkness and light. Ambitions keep us in a whirlpool of tensions in the hope that we will be happy. They want us to be like others or better than others and in the process you become bitter.
Meditation awakens your awareness. Once your awareness is of a high order, you realise the foolishness of comparison. You would not allow others’ success to define your failure. You would see the beauty of ‘what is’ and not get lost in 'what should be'.
Everyone is unique. Everyone is incomparable. You would learn the art of seeing beauty even in imperfection. You would participate in the miracle of life than being busy in judging life. You would listen to the mantra of life or the song of life. Your listening would be with your heart. You will hear music. With this, your perception awakens to newer heights.
Managing Stress
Swami Sukhabodhananda
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One youngster comes to me very depressed and asks this question "Why is God creating so many difficulties for us? How to handle stress?" I tell this youngster to reflect on this beautiful story:
A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?
Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."
Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.
When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.
So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.
With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.
Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.
The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.
For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?
If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.
I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.
2006-12-21 02:07:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋