Actually, potentially true regardless of what you believe. The proverb may very well be self-fulfilling.
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Buddhists, is this true?
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Actually, potentially true regardless of what you believe. The proverb may very well be self-fulfilling.
Shantanu
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Absolutely: this situation came about from 20 years of yoga in search of God's wishes for me on a daily and even moment by moment basis so that I am assuming that I am God in human form and simply cannot fail to attain my objectives. I am 62 years of age and if I fail, it would all have been delusional theory not borne out by the outcome of my struggle for existence in a very hostile world where I suffered persecution that had to be tolerated in order to survive, nothing more.
That is all very correct.
Shantanu
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I have been in the ditch from where a 20 year recovery was mounted by 'self-reliance'.
The differences between the divisions reflect more the human view of the nature of the religion.
The differences between the divisions, and the religions themselves, reflect more the human cultural view of the nature of the religion.
Because of the subjective anecdotal contradictory cultural moribund nature of belief I have no reason to believe that fallible humans are capable of any more than this,
I think you're replying to the wrong posts. All I said was that Amitabha Buddha is the Buddha of Pure Land, and that Maitreya is the next Buddha to come.
Really? I don't even know who Amithaba is. But yeah, if he's a messiah claimant, or some such thing, I know what you speak of. Lots delusion of grandeur around. Much easier to not believe in the concept at all, eh?
Actually, I goofed. I was thinking of the Maitreya. Sorry.
Maitreya - Wikipedia
A comparison with the expected Jewish Messiah would not be entirely unfounded.
As for Amithaba, far as I know he is not generally understood to be a human being as such. He is emphasized in some schools, but not waited for in a manner similar to a Messiah.
It is possible, perhaps likely, that the early Bahais were thinking of Maitreya and got he confused with Amithaba, as I did now.
Wow. Just wow.
So you know more about my faith than I do, and then you call me a Buddhist, which I'm not. Wow, just wow. I know more about Baha'i than about Buddhism.
I'm 65 years old, yes just a youngster. lol This was actually really funny.
Could be. They do get confused about a lot of stuff, specially religions not their own, or just what is what in which religion?
I am responding to your
in response to my post. You apparently needed clarification.
I can see you are uncomfortable and disingenuous to others who believe differently.
I am responding to your negative disingenuous attitudes toward the Baha'i Faith, regardless of what you nor I believe or know. I apologize for the error in the reference to you as Buddhist.
Categorically, patently and unequivocally false. Hinduism generally sees all religions as being valid for their followers, as valid paths to God.
You just described Hinduism.
I am responding to your
I wasn't responding to any post of yours. Buddhists, is this true?
"Come along Samwise, keep up".
Keep up. I was simply responding to your smiley in post #66. If you have a problem, please give a more coherent response.
This one?
That means "what in the blue blazes are you talking about?" because your response in Buddhists, is this true? was totally from outer space. You weren't even addressing "That is all very correct". So what are you going on about?