Misunderstandings

WOW!!

It never ceases to amaze me how much people don’t understand about other religions. Often its hard to explain my viewpoint because as far as I can tell its completely unique. I’ve never met or heard of anybody that thinks about things quite the same way as I do. I guess that’s partly because nobody else in this world has had the exact same thoughts and experiences as I have had. It really makes me wonder whether that one philosopher was right or not, can’t remember his name but he figured that the way a person thinks and feels depends solely on the way they were raised, learned to react, and were taught to think. If somebody else was raised in the exact same way as you, learned to react the same way as you, had the same experiences as you, WOULD they think the same way as you?

I can’t explain the way I think fully partly because I don’t even understand completely the way my own mind works… that’s how I learned that you can’t explain about something you don’t even know about.

A lot of people I meet are close minded, they think that the way THEY think is the only right way to think. I beg to disagree. People are unique, Classic line: If God wanted us all to be the same, he would have made us that way.

But he didn’t, surely he must have had a reason for that.

I was actually talking to someone about this kind of thing this evening and *not a joke* they honestly thought Buddhism was a cult…

I may not be able to explain exactly how I look at it, but I can get her information about it. I say to those of you who have assumptions about particular religions: “Go on an adventure within your own house. Research the religions, learn what they are about, and don’t stop learning until you at least partially OPEN MINDEDLY understand what they are about”

Till next time