Well, that's what I was trying to find out, dear brother in Christ, in my little tete-a-tete with "Ben," who teaches that Christianity and Buddhism are "blendable," And you need them to be blendable, he argues, because only such a "blend" could account for divine transcendence and divine immanence at the same time.
But if you say they blend, then please tell me HOW? That was my question.
And then he changed the subject entirely. I never got an answer.
He seems to be entirely unaware that Christianity already has a beautiful, truthful, and complete explanation of how God is both transcendent and immanent at the same time.
But I have to say his followers are mainly such cultural ignoramuses that they are unaware of this, and so wait with baited breath for every word Ben utters — and then they take his word as some kind of holy writ....
All I can say is: the poor dears....
Thanks so much for writing, dear MHGinTN!
What’s coming, Christianity and Buddhism as Buddianity...?
AND the always present BuddiJewishness..
with Yamaka and Kippah versions..... sometimes a baseball cap...
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BuddiAmishness has always been with us..
And BuddaCatholics are ever present...
If Rich Warren is not a Budd-O-Protestant I’m looking at the wrong Guru...
Actually they are more Buddo-Hindi-Confucian Taoists to be exact.. but all would deny it if cornered..
A question destined to remain unanswered and unanswerable. HOW? Now that’s the stickler, isn’t it.
Thanks for the BEEP.
“Poor dears” indeed. Thank you for your insights, dearest sister in Christ!
Spirited: When Hermes taught the meaning of the 'Abyss' he taught "as above," meaning transcendent, "so below," meaning here in the material dimension.
In this way of thinking, nature (or cosmos) is a closed system consisting of the impersonal Mind, Spirit, etc. All things are "one with," meaning aspects of the Mind (i.e., Ein Sof, Brahma, Basilides, Star Maker).
Though there is but the one dimension as opposed to the Bible's two distinct yet interfacing, interactive dimensions(supernatural and natural), the impersonal Mind is said to be "above" because it is the top-most astral plane of the cosmic tree. The tree consists of many interconnected, descending-order planes. Some are hells, others heavens. Some are where the gods and goddesses exist. On others thought-forms exist. Some are the abode of demons, old souls, and other powers. Alice Baily teaches that one of the planes is where the Black Lodge exists. Gnostics placed Jehovah---the creator of evil matter---on a plane just above earth. The material world "here below" is the lowest rung on the cosmic tree.
When "Ben" teaches the blendability of Christianity and Buddhism he is calling for the submersion of the supernatural dimension of the living God with the closed system of Buddhism, the reduction of the living God to spiritualized matter, and the depersonalization of man.
