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What religions and paths do you mix?
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Maija
Active Member
I agree with you.
My list would say:
Islam-Bahai-Hindu
The only downside to having been a Bahai for me was that ultimately it ended up feeling like too much like we were making it up along the way. It felt like I was only a Bahai because I ran from faiths that didn't see many paths as all routes to one..
I ended up missing a house of worship and ordained people carrying our important rituals. In the end I loved the fellowship but felt I didn't have that personal relationship with my God that I had as a born again Christian, that I have when I chant my mahamantra.
What has scared me from Hinduism in the past is my old Abrahamic interpretation of Hinduism, if all paths lead to one than as many have said you could worship the anything in the world, like, say a tulsi plant and draw close to your Lord. From an Abrahamic perspective--is that part of thing or aspect of god really GOD.
And lastly, what had scared me away from Abrahamic religions was that I felt that they only accepted one version of the truth..While I loved the truth I felt there was so much more..
Many UU is the way to go...lol..who knows, this is but the begining, eh?
davidthegreek
Active Member
you are not guaranteed any of them. It is upto God to judge. Don't judge yourself on behalf of him. Because you don't know all of his thoughts which are different than our thoughts. And you don't know his ways, which are different than our ways.
Gaura Priya
IRL
I've realised that, and left it up to God. As for my religion, I have finalised myself as a Unitarian Universalist, as I see that God goes beyond the box... or any enclosed space for that matter!
Krishna says in the Gita that everything beautiful, magnificent and splendid in this world is a mere fragment of His power.
God bless!
Krishna says in the Gita that everything beautiful, magnificent and splendid in this world is a mere fragment of His power.
God bless!
And He also says that by whatever path one worships, He blesses. All people follow His path, that is, the path to God.
Birbal
www.akbarist.blogspot.com
It can be said that I am an Islamic Jain. I accept one God and that Akbar is his prophet, and believe in multiple non-eternal heavens and hells, and one eternal heaven for those who devote themselves and earn it. I perform the five daly salah prayers turned towards to tomb of Akbar and in ethics I follow the five Jain layman vows.
Akbar the Great?
Birbal
www.akbarist.blogspot.com
Yes, Emperor Akbar, the founder of the Din-i Ilahi, I have opened a topic about it on this same sub-forum.
In the Dabistan, a book from 1655 which enumerates and describes all religions known to the author, when talking about the Din-i Ilahi it says: "In the month Rajab of the year of the Hijra 987 [1579 CE], the Emperor Akbar was ordered by Heaven to fix the sentence: “There is but one God, and Akbar is his Khalifah” to be used" meaning- as the shahada. By the way, being that Muhammed started preaching 13 years before he done his Hirja, this was exactly 1000 years after the start of Islam, to simbolically signify it's end.
In the Dabistan, a book from 1655 which enumerates and describes all religions known to the author, when talking about the Din-i Ilahi it says: "In the month Rajab of the year of the Hijra 987 [1579 CE], the Emperor Akbar was ordered by Heaven to fix the sentence: “There is but one God, and Akbar is his Khalifah” to be used" meaning- as the shahada. By the way, being that Muhammed started preaching 13 years before he done his Hirja, this was exactly 1000 years after the start of Islam, to simbolically signify it's end.
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Thank you. I was unaware of this tradition in Islam, which I assume is what this religion is, is that correct...?
I don't think that would be right, SageTree.
The wiki article say: From the discussions he led at the Ibādat Khāna, Akbar concluded that no single religion could claim the monopoly of truth. This inspired him to create the Dīn-i Ilāhī in 1582. Various pious Muslims, among them the Qadi of Bengal and the seminal Sufi personality Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi, responded by declaring this to be blasphemy to Islam.
Din-e Ilahi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seems like it's a religion of its own, albeit an extremely small one.
I was just lurking around the wikipages myself....
I like to read up on stuff,
but also appreciate the input of members.
Like the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, who feel very much in Islam,
where as other Muslims think it's heresy.
Birbal
www.akbarist.blogspot.com
It can be considered a religion onto itself, or a syncretic religion mixing Islam and Jainism, I think both are valid opinions, and I would certainly rather classify Din-i Ilahi in the category of deistic traditions then among denominations of Islam, even though I do perform five salah prayers every day.
And yes, it is basically a non existant religion concerning practitioners, I personally don't know any practitioners in person, I have only found a few by internet. Similar is the case with e.g. Pythagoreanism, which is one of most theologically and ethically exalted religions, and yet it has no followers, afaik.
And yes, it is basically a non existant religion concerning practitioners, I personally don't know any practitioners in person, I have only found a few by internet. Similar is the case with e.g. Pythagoreanism, which is one of most theologically and ethically exalted religions, and yet it has no followers, afaik.
Very nice and a pleasure to meet you.
I bring wudu and the prayer schedule into my own Practice,
which I feel is Universalist... while others might call it Sycretic.
Please stay with us and get to know us better.
Your Path sounds very interesting to me, as one who brings 'east' and 'west' together into my thought and ritual.
:namaste
davidthegreek
Active Member
DivineAmandus
Member
I am strongly influenced by the traditionalist Catholicism I was raised under, especially the Chaldean church I joined in my late teens. Since I have broken with them I have freely incorporated elements of philosophy such as Hegelianism and less systematic but probably more meaningful ideas I found in Nietzsche and his famous translator Walter Kaufmann. An encounter during my college days with the works of Max Stirner and Dora Marsden finally caused me to become an antinomian and something of an Epicurean in my outlook on norms.
The works of Rudolf Bultmann also influenced me, with their quasi-Jungian treatment of religious texts and experience, which I realised could be extended almost arbitrarily to work with everything from comic books to the Quran.
I absolutely adore the Assyrian Church of the East and the Yazidi, and have picked up scripture from the Tohedo Orthodox Church focusing on Enoch.
My sources are heavily Christian, obviously, but my interpretation and use is decidedly not 'Orthodox'.
I know DavidtheGreek didn't ask me, but I want to answer:
For the record I believe in God, I just don't think he matters. Omnipotent, omniscient entities don't do anything. I'd like to put Preacher comics into the canon.
The works of Rudolf Bultmann also influenced me, with their quasi-Jungian treatment of religious texts and experience, which I realised could be extended almost arbitrarily to work with everything from comic books to the Quran.
I absolutely adore the Assyrian Church of the East and the Yazidi, and have picked up scripture from the Tohedo Orthodox Church focusing on Enoch.
My sources are heavily Christian, obviously, but my interpretation and use is decidedly not 'Orthodox'.
I know DavidtheGreek didn't ask me, but I want to answer:
It's like those 'personal relationship' Evangelicals using Jesus as an imaginary friend. You could do it with God or Superman, all you have to do is think, "What would Superman think of what I am doing?" The fear engendered is a moral one which is based on principled archetypes, not necessarily "run from a giant tiger" fear that assumes a physically real entity which has power against you.
For the record I believe in God, I just don't think he matters. Omnipotent, omniscient entities don't do anything. I'd like to put Preacher comics into the canon.
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Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Sounds like Deism, is there a difference?
I don't know anymore to be honest. At first I was a full-blown Buddhist, but I have been expressing some doubt.
At the moment, I'm sort of a Buddhist with influences from Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, and Sufism.
At the moment, I'm sort of a Buddhist with influences from Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, and Sufism.
Little Darwin
Member
My first post...
Although my background is heavily Christian, I tend to avoid using the doctrinal teachings and only use some of the Bible as it supports my beliefs, and ignore the rest.
My background is varied, and although I know that all of it has shaped me, I see it as largely irrelevant to the current part of my journey.
My first exposure to religion was full blown speaking in tongues pentecostal Christianity.
The next leg of my journey was Nichiren Shoshu buddhism.
Then I met my ex-wife and over the years became American Baptist, evolved to Southern Baptist, and ultimately Reformed Baptist (with time at a large non-denominational church in between).
Up to the time I left that phase, I always had nagging doubts... but since Christians tend to chalk up questions of doubt to temptations we all face, I just dealt with it.
Since then, I have searched out and read many things, including Toltec, and Buddhist teachings, some Native American writings and others as well.
I recently got a new phone, and part of the number is "Zen Guy" and when I recently bought a car, my license plate starts JBZ, which I am interpreting as "Just Be Zen" to remember it. So, since a part of me believes in fate, I am guessing, I am leaning toward Zen.
I have happily found myself being a member of a UU congregation, which is good, because I would hate to not accept myself for some of the things I believe (or don't).
Although my background is heavily Christian, I tend to avoid using the doctrinal teachings and only use some of the Bible as it supports my beliefs, and ignore the rest.
My background is varied, and although I know that all of it has shaped me, I see it as largely irrelevant to the current part of my journey.
My first exposure to religion was full blown speaking in tongues pentecostal Christianity.
The next leg of my journey was Nichiren Shoshu buddhism.
Then I met my ex-wife and over the years became American Baptist, evolved to Southern Baptist, and ultimately Reformed Baptist (with time at a large non-denominational church in between).
Up to the time I left that phase, I always had nagging doubts... but since Christians tend to chalk up questions of doubt to temptations we all face, I just dealt with it.
Since then, I have searched out and read many things, including Toltec, and Buddhist teachings, some Native American writings and others as well.
I recently got a new phone, and part of the number is "Zen Guy" and when I recently bought a car, my license plate starts JBZ, which I am interpreting as "Just Be Zen" to remember it. So, since a part of me believes in fate, I am guessing, I am leaning toward Zen.
I have happily found myself being a member of a UU congregation, which is good, because I would hate to not accept myself for some of the things I believe (or don't).
This question brought to my mind a metaphoric image of a mad scientist building his grand experiment with all his various and eclectic apparatus carefully arranged in his lab. Alchemy? Is that what syncretism is?Would it be easier to list the ones you don't?
How do you combine them all together? And which ones do you mainly use? Like, your top three or four.