the disease and the symptom/fao greg

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--- Gregory Goode <goode wrote:

> Kaminetsky was so impressed by

> what he learned about Buddhism, that not only did it

> allow him to respect

> Buddhism a great deal, but it also gave him much

> more appreciation of his

> own Judaism!

 

Dear Greg,

Nearly forty years ago I was wandering around the

hills near Nainital when an Indian who was a Christian

bishop gave me a Bible. I had left the Church as a

teenager as it did not seem to agree with the pure

communism that I then perceived in Christ's words. By

the time the bishop was met I had discovered Nanak,

Kabir, Sufi poetry and through the grace of Sri

Anandamayee begun to hear the words of Vedanta. It

was the insights of these traditions that opened the

door to the Christian teaching beyond the dogma

preached to me as a child. I had no desire to become

a Christian, Sufi or Hindu but, years later, a role in

setting up Interfaith groups appeared. I was able to

use my own experience to help the members of each of

the traditions 'deepen' the understanding of their own

tradition by studying other traditons in the company

of the followers of those faiths. Almost without

exception they came to echo what Kaminetsky found. In

the present climate it is very imporatnt that we bring

the light of knowledge of all great teachings to the

fore and I value greatly this site which enables this

to happen.

The title of this thread..the disease and the

symptom.... now baffles me but on the way someone had

posed the question as to whether other traditions had

statements equal to the Mahavakyas and I had picked up

on the possibility of the Gospel of St John's insights

as in my own experiences. That had then sparked the

line which you had picked up on. As always the list

members have now given me a load of work to follow up

just as my 18 year old pupils are coming up to their

main examinations in Pure Maths.

Happy studying

Ken

 

 

 

 

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