Smile Buddha
Healthy Lifestyles, World at War - If We All Just Prayed Like BuddhaTo me, as I am going to hang out on a limb and talk about religion, I ought to part with you a brief summary on my own biases. I was born to a mother brought up Irish Catholic, who left her religion to marry my English Anglican father. After years sitting and kneeling to pray, we joined the progressed innovative United Church, which is a more innovative welcoming church. When I was engaged, my wife consorted we marry in the United Church, which we then started out to attend. I felt I became a dear friend of the pastor, who introduced me as a leader in the community, as I was, and we felt warmly welcomed. When our daughter was born, the minister asked if we could become the official greeters at the church door, an old habit that had rather fallen out of use. We did, and were there early in our Sunday best attire, all ready at the front door. The basi few through the door seemed startled as I shook their hands and welcomed them to the service. Joe, our minister, had an agenda for the songs and sermon, and we would hand that out to each new arrival. As if we had anything to do with that, but all assumed, it seemed, we had worked worked all week on this. We were all treated as a very Godly threesome, and of course our newborn well loved daughter melted each heart, and the entry hall was a series of started, then smiling persons entering into the kingdom of God for a good old fashioned hearty sing a long, and then a very warm touching sermon from Joe. God could not have succeeded anyplace on world better than He did for that time. After service, we all felt so good, no one wanted to go home, so we stayed and did good. Usually, service was followed by a tea downstairs later. We would plan and arrange a charity raffle for the poor, or a drop off place for old eyeglasses destined for Africa. The church has a feed box near the door. And I found myself, too busy, fending off Joe's request to join the finance or numerous other committee as the church necessitated a new roof, or always something. And that drive home was one of the most serene times in our marriage, which did not end perfectly. But it held together better than it might by those Godly behavings we went through. When Joe looked at any one of us from his pulpit, as he did me in my turn, and says how much God loves me, I profoundly felt God come through Joe's honorable eyes and his word into my eyes and heart and soul. When that happens, it matters not whether you are Catholic or Anglican, Islam or Jew, Confucian or Buddhist, it is who is inside you. If you bomb and you kill and ruin rather than build, unless it is Hitler, you ought to stop, drop and roll. And look another way. All seem determined to stay their own course. And they each are God's chosen, they told themselves that. Oh, no it is from God, through the hands of wise men. Oh, yes. The eyes for an eye crowd, of such holy love. Back to being the greeter at the door. After assorted years of very pleasurable Sundays at the door, and then the service, and the teas, and the goods we had brought for the charity box, Joe, our kind, wise minister said one Sunday, that as his arthritis had been getting more painful he had felt he might need to retire to get to a warmer clime. And we felt joy and loss as he said that the church had rewarded him with a little ministry in need of love in Jamaica, amidst heat. They would live out their final years doing third world ministry to those who necessitated them. God is merciful indeed. Our new minister arrived, from far away. His initial Sunday service was one of our last attendances, as I recall. In contrast of the love of God pouring from the simple mouth of Joe, I was shocked to realize that God had dissimilar capablenesses with even his own leaders. This service was all in regards to him. And the more he talked of every one around he had served, regarding a year in each place, the more I realized why. Each ministry would have a committee that was in charge of hiring and firing their minister, I often times refused to join, so I know. In this new minister's case, his one year trial ministry ofttimes will have to be ending with a handshake and a ticket out of town. At the end of the service, as we all put on our coats, he neared me, and thanked me for having welcomed in the front door. It had rather startled him, and he wondered who I was to be doing that. He suggested he would take it up with the suitable committee, but for now he would be the greeter at the door. As the church had filled up for the duration of our assorted years at the door, I dire for my church. But not my faith. Our Sundays continued, but not with such bliss. For that self centered man had just driven us away. Many would turn on him, I had no doubt. But I have long thought of his self centered concern regarding his control, rather than the tame loving eyes of Joe. And since then, I notice, everyplace now, you see persons of Allah, or God with hate in their eyes. When persons talk of Crusades, or Jihad, or war, they have lost contact with their God, their humanity, all. So even though I no longer attend church, I pray and meditate. And I may look and feel as innerly soft as those smiling monks who wince men with no soul, batter them with clubs, wherever they are. Then you are far, far from God, where ever you are. I love each soldier of America overseas, and our Canadians too: they were given orders, and so I would also likely have obeyed orders, where I in that position. Thank God I am not, nor you yet, or you. But we need to see clearly, these untrue men of God. Eye for eye time is over, in the name of God please. I meditate to the God of Peace, while others their Allah, or God, of old testament eyes. And I could not think of a country of followers of Buddha who rise off their prayer mats, invade neighbors, behave like raving bats. I have looked into the eyes of untrue gods, and the real thing. The usual wisdom of Buddha has now been studied and found to the most long living, healthy, serene way of life, in which good deeds cause one to naturally flow from this imperfect life to Nirvana, bliss or Heaven. His three wise men were there to welcome baby Jesus. Remember? Peace on earth? Buddha had eight steps to bliss, and the University of California researchers found there were eight virtues in mutual that the most healthy, longest living people who reported most pleasure and bliss. These traits follow, and you might listen for any proof of this from your local, or faraway, holy man. These traits belong to those with kindest eyes at your church. If you may not have St. Peter tick each of these off when it is your turn, serves you right. To be capable to count your blessings is the initial virtue these people had in common. To do acts of benignity every day was there, as was savor the joys of life, and thank a mentor.To learn to forgive, which is next, I tried another way. I approach a man with whom I had argued decades earlier, that he did not get the contract because I purchased a better product for less. I said to my old enemy that I wanted to apologize for my percentage in what happened long ago. Whatever else, I did not want to go to my grave without having asked your forgiveness. He fell all over me with apologies, that, no really, he had been the fool. Now when we pass each other, we wind our windows down, big wave from each, and our eyes twinkle, I knew his do. Stay close to your friends and family. Take care of your body. A physician said that basically life begins it is end when you may no longer get up from the toilet with out help. After that, your muscle decline and standard health have you on your way sooner to God than me. Develop systems to cope with stress and hardship. Whether by a smooth talking deceiver who loots all your cash, or a careless stumble on stairs, and sooner my God. And if you follow those virtues, and reward them in others, you begun to notice: whom you may bless, and who is on their way to hell. We see it in Tibet, and who has the batons. Pretty easy pickings, when all they recognise is to love.
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I'm confuse who is buddha the handsome guy that never smile or the fat dude who laughs at everything? And if they are the same is it that handsome guy later grow up to be that fatman? Both of them are buddhas. The handsome guy is Siddharta, The Buddha. The fat guy is Ho Tei, the Laughing Buddha, who became enlightened by his good fortune and good luck, which he employed to aid other people. They are not the same person, but they are both buddhas. buddha is merely a term meaning "enlightened one." |
