he said, she said

genkaku

There was a time when I was really wowed by the connections that seemed to exist between and among religious teachings and experiences. Sometimes I wondered if a person in say, India, hadn't taught someone in Africa. The teachings/experiences seemed so similar that it was hard to imagine Jesus and Mohammad and Gautama and the Bal Shem Tov and Sri Ramakrishna and whoever all else didn't somehow get together for some great colloquium... despite all geographical and time-frame separations.

It really wowed me and I loved the line from the Vedas: "Truth is one, wise men call it by many names." Oooooeeeoooo!

But what did not occur to me so forcefully was to wonder and then investigate what, precisely, the truth might be. Who cares if truth is one if I am not willing to realize/actualize that truth ... if I neglect to step beyond the wow, beyond the intellectual and emotional collations ... and just find out for sure what that living truth was.

Just wondering here if you too have felt that wow and what you did about it.

Thanks.

Bodhgaya

To be honest, what I heard was, referring to the multiple people you listed, and their similarities, was that word just passed around the globe. Depending on how long ago the 'original' or actual person/thing was alive, it could be when the lands were still attached. Word could have spread and been distorted so people could have their own thing, or it was accidential. I couldn't say, just what I have heard.

SherabDorje

Just wondering here if you too have felt that wow and what you did about it.

I majored in Comparative Religions at university because that was my feeling at the time. But nobody ask me any complex questions please because that was 35 years ago. That's why I became a nurse later on. A degree in Comparative Religions and 50 cents would get you a cup of coffee in 1975. I have noticed that my son, who is now 14, is saying much the same thing, and I encourage him to look into it more.

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Wow! from reading / hearing of Truth is one
Wow! from faith of Truth is one,
Wow! from discernment of Truth is one,
Wow! from performance of Truth is one, and most essentially
Wow! from assurance/attainment of Truth

genkaku

"A degree in Comparative Religions and 50 cents would get you a cup of coffee in 1975."
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Strange to say, but actualizing the truth and 50 cents will still only get you a cup of coffee ... if you're lucky.

Freethinker_23

No one seems to be answering your question. Yes. Yes I have noticed the similarities, and have been astounded and awed at the implications. From the similarity of teachings to the similarity of architecture, ancient civs have a secret that no one has been able to uncover, the "link" to bind them all. What have I done about it? Well I am currently studying all I can. I am reading the Bhagavad Gita now, and seems like whole verses came right out of the Dhammapadda. Or vice-versa, depending on which you think came first. It's crazy.. I was raised christian, so the similarities there are well known to me.

caz

How many people actually know what truth is ? Many people call it god and still go blindly about as before believing themselves to be superior to those whom have no beleif in this so called truth...

What is truth or something worthy of being called truth, Freedom from mistaken appearances ands its many sufferings for oneself and others this is the noble goal.

The kingdom of heaven lays within not outside...;)