Re: This changed my life!
Originally posted by Wonderer
Do you long for personal happiness, world peace and prosperity? Well, then I would like to share my discovery with everyone else. Please visit the following 2 web sites - seriously and contemplatively consider their common message:
Wow! It's been just about 8 months already since I became a Buddhist and I'm still going strong! I'm still not smoking and still of the pills and medication. I think my being has been changed on such a fundamental level that I can never go back.
Has anyone else ever gone through such a change, good or bad?
Originally posted by Wonderer
Do you long for personal happiness, world peace and prosperity? Well, then I would like to share my discovery with everyone else. Please visit the following 2 web sites - seriously and contemplatively consider their common message:
Originally posted by Bardock42
Don't all of those "personal happiness, world peace and prosperity", basically come back to "personal happiness"? I mean, aren't the two others pointless?
Originally posted by Wonderer
Yes, in a sense it does boil down to personal happiness. Then again, do you think we as individuals can really be happy if the rest of the world is suffering? What about compassion? But I think before we should strive for the happiness of others, we should first see to ourselves, so that we are in the right condition to help others and to show them what's possible by example.
Yes, I think we as individuals can be happy with th eworld around us suffering...well, some of us.
I hardly believe in compassion.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Yes, I think we as individuals can be happy with th eworld around us suffering...well, some of us.
I hardly believe in compassion.
Originally posted by Wonderer
Why don't you believe in compassion? Wouldn't you have wanted people to have compassion for you if you were unfortunate? Or do you believe it's simply everyone for himself? How about if your mother/father/girlfriend/wife/child or whoever is very close to you suffers - don't you have compassion for them?
I might have wanted them toi be compassinate , but they just can't.
I would feel unhappy, biut not because of them, but because I feel bad if something bad happens to them. If you wish to call that compassion, that'S okay, but it's jsut the same as any other feeling...very selfish.
Re: This changed my life!
Originally posted by Wonderer
Do you long for personal happiness, world peace and prosperity? Well, then I would like to share my discovery with everyone else. Please visit the following 2 web sites - seriously and contemplatively consider their common message:
Thanks for the offer, but I found peace 11 years ago. His name is Jesus.
"You will keep him in perfect peace who's mind is stayed on you."
Isaiah 26:3
Originally posted by Wonderer
Why don't you believe in compassion? Wouldn't you have wanted people to have compassion for you if you were unfortunate? Or do you believe it's simply everyone for himself? How about if your mother/father/girlfriend/wife/child or whoever is very close to you suffers - don't you have compassion for them?
Jesus believed in compassion.
When he saw the multitudes of people He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
Matthew 9:36
This also applies today as it did then.
Originally posted by Justbyfaith
Thanks for the offer, but I found peace 11 years ago. His name is Jesus."You will keep him in perfect peace who's mind is stayed on you."
Isaiah 26:3
Yup, I agree, Jesus and Christianity, just as any other religion can offer you enlightenment and peace. I'm happy for you. 🙂
Originally posted by Mindship
"Above all else, a god needs compassion!"
--James T. Kirk, Where No Man Has Gone Before
🙂