Just read this from my Zen calandar:
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one person gains spiritually the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the world falls to that extent.
- Mahandas K. Gandhi
What thinketh you?
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koan wrote: Just read this from my Zen calandar:
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one person gains spiritually the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the world falls to that extent.
- Mahandas K. Gandhi
What thinketh you?
Sounds pretty good to me. Sort of right on in its own way. :-6
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one person gains spiritually the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the world falls to that extent.
- Mahandas K. Gandhi
What thinketh you?
Sounds pretty good to me. Sort of right on in its own way. :-6
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Depends on what she means by "falls" and what her definition of "spirituality" is, I would think.
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Beth wrote: Depends on what she means by "falls" and what her definition of "spirituality" is, I would think.
Which definitions do you choose?
Which definitions do you choose?
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koan :-6
I do have a great respect for Gandhi. In many ways I can agree with that statement. In many ways we are all connected.
Shalom
Ted :-6
I do have a great respect for Gandhi. In many ways I can agree with that statement. In many ways we are all connected.
Shalom
Ted :-6
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I think this thought/statement is an example of why some people can not judge others but feel the suffering and the accomplishments of all their fellow humans as if it were their own suffering and accomplishment.
It is a great expression of compassion.
It is a great expression of compassion.
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koan wrote: I think this thought/statement is an example of why some people can not judge others but feel the suffering and the accomplishments of all their fellow humans as if it were their own suffering and accomplishment.
It is a great expression of compassion.
Well said and that is how I interpret these words. Even Christ would undrstand them because that was what he was trying to instill in his followers.
It is a great expression of compassion.
Well said and that is how I interpret these words. Even Christ would undrstand them because that was what he was trying to instill in his followers.
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I believe that unity is inclusive of thought and behaviour. I believe that there should be unity within ourselves first before we can try to unite or consider being united with others. If our spiritual belief is one thing, but our thoughts are different, or our behaviour is another, or we communicate differently then we are not united within and therefore can never be united without.
Anything that we do that harms ourselves, regardless of extent, is a nail against our spiritual and physical being. That therefore then serves to hurt our unity within and without.
I therefore agree with Gandhiji.
Anything that we do that harms ourselves, regardless of extent, is a nail against our spiritual and physical being. That therefore then serves to hurt our unity within and without.
I therefore agree with Gandhiji.
