What and Whose Morals to Follow?

Respect and not conversion is the key to harmony

Any sort of Morality guidelines that bring about Harmony, Unity , Love and Peace is a Good guideline... whether they are cultural, societal or spiritual

Any sort of Morality guidelines that brings about Violence, Pain, Despair and Disregard of Humanity's rights is a Bad guideline... EVEN if its a guideline of Divine Sanction. Any Divinity that causes Tears to Roll, Blood to Pour and Families to be Broken is not Divine at all, but evil and wicked...even though they themselves claim to be the Source of all Good. In fact, many spiritual practices and guidelines have been tainted or corrupted through the decades through mis-translation, additions or omissions. It is time seekers of spiritual paths use their inherent born intellect and wisdom to discern for themselves, what is good for them and what is not... blind belief is dangerous, harmful and causes much strife to our lives and to the lives of those around us.

The BEST morality guides are the ones that make your own Heart feel happy for following them, makes your mind feel at ease when practicing them and makes your "spirit" or Nature feel at Peace for perfecting them.... be they religious morals or otherwise.

Why did Dad have to die?

A Christian Friend had an email discussion with me about how her Faith in God is shaken because her father who was a Pastor had died from illness. She had begun to ask the classic question, "Why God?", I wrote her a reply:

My deepest sympathies for your loss. I guess, It is easy for everyone to tell you it is all in God's plan yada yada... but when tragedy happens at our door step its not such an easy bullet to bite.

It IS OK to feel angry with God, I assume you are Christian, and in Christianity God calls himself the Father.

In human terms, sometimes our human parents will do something to us and for us, beyond what we can see, like limiting our TV time so that we can complete our schoolwork or help us save our money for college and in the mean time we do notget to buy the really expensive Dress from Prada.

In saying so, I cannot say for sure God has a plan or what that plan is, but if your beloved father placed full trust in God, then I am thinking you would too... seeing sometimes God gives us situations that we do not like... as a Child my TV time was like a Pot of Pure Gold. I did not see the value of homework and such.

Now that the loss of your Dad is so arresting... maybe its God's whisper to you to continue serving him by honoring your mom? God takes care of your Dad in heaven, while you be the caretaker of yourself and your mom on Earth, until you are able to have a family reunion once again somewhere in the future.

Who is to say, that your loss does not propel you to be as great a man as your Daddy once was, the hundreds if not more people he had inspired as a minister towards faith in the Divine, Love towards Humanity and Devotion towards his Family? Maybe God has great plans in store for you and for greatness to be won, all the sages and prophets of the past had to go through much trials and tribulations, like the forging of a lump of raw iron into a pristine Sword that protects the weak and defends those in despair.

Maybe YOU are going to be that Sword, it doesn't diminish the severity of your loss, but this loss can be used to strengthen you more or degenerate you, the choice is in your hands...

Be Angry! Be upset! Mourn! But once you are more at ease, Heal! Honor those around you... Love those who are with you... and honor the momory of your late father by being as wonderful a man as I am sure he was... For no man can invoke such great devotion and love from a child, unless he himself was truly a great man...

Hope all will be well soon.

What is the ONE true religion?

While I was shopping an evangelist came up to me and told me he wanted to share with me some good news, I was in a feisty mood today so I entertained him. He asked me; " I believe Jesus is the ONE true God, and I know his Way is the ONE true way to heaven. Do you know if your religion is the ONE true way?"

I answered: How do you know? Have you died and gone to Heaven then come back to testify? We are all just gamblers when it comes to faith and devotion, the reason why religious groups from Christians all the way to Buddhist, try to snare everyone into their little net is because... JUST in case we are wrong in our choice we dont wantto go down alone! He was totally horrified at my answer hehe. I laughed it off though... THEN I answered, I know my Buddha and his path is the one True Divine, the same way YOU know Jesus and his path is your one True Divine.

The ONE true religion, is the religion that brings YOU Happiness in your Mind, Peace in your Spirit and Devotion in your Heart. SO if Jesus works for you...Wonderful! And since Buddha works for me, why dont you just be happy for me? Would it serve you better if I was miserable and in tears?

Dear boy, Any religion that you enter but brings you Confusion, Fear and Uncertainty is then truly the wrong religion because lets face it, with or without religion we are already constantly in Fear Confusion and Uncertainty, why go into a Faith that adds more crap into your Heart and Mind?

I said goodbye then went on in search for my cat food, while he stood there totally stumped and confused. Poor boy...