Ben Reist, my reformed theology professor, said “If a little Buddha rubs off on Jesus, and a little Jesus rubs off on Buddha, so much the better for both of them.†As an eclectic universalist, I firmly believe in the cross pollination of religions as a means of coming to a higher understanding of truth. […]
In The Bhagavat, Its Philosophy, Ethics and Theology, Bhaktivinode Thakur says, “Liberty then is the principle, which we must consider as the most valuable gift of God. We must not allow ourselves to be led by those who lived and thought before us. We must think for ourselves and try to get further truths which […]
I just finished reading The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith by Marcus Borg. I have been impressed with his other book, Metting Jesus Again for the First Time, in which he reimagined what Jesus may have been like. In The God We Never Knew, he takes on […]
Well, I got my MacBook and am able to write again without having to deal with computer problems, although I’m still in the learning stage with this. You may wonder what I’ve been doing the past couple of months. I’ve been doing a re-examination of my faith, going back to beginner’s mind, letting go, embracing […]
Ben Reist, my Reformed Theology professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary, told the class, “If a little bit of Jesus rubs off on the Buddha, that’s good, and if a little bit of Buddha rubs off on Jesus, that’s good too.†In the liberal reformed tradition, I was a part of, my background as a […]
In the early 1970s, I lived in India for three years as a renounced devotee of Radha Krishna living in the holy places such as Vrindaban. I got to experience this spiritual path in its homeland from a variety of reputable sources, most importantly Dr. O.B.L. Kapoor and Lalita Prasad Thakur. I became very Indianized […]
It’s mid-November in South Puna. We’ve been having a heat wave and dry weather. Yet, the past couple of weeks, we put much energy into installing a tile-hearth, woodstove and chimney for our yurt. Last night and this morning, the temperature seemed cooler than it has been. When I got up early this morning, the […]
I got my computer back about a week ago. I had to spend quite a bit of time getting it set up again after a total restore. It’s still not totally back to where it needs to be, but it is functioning fine. Actually, I kind of enjoyed not having it for a week. I […]
My brother in New York saw some stuff on the news about volcanic activity here and was concerned about our well-being. I just sent him this report. It’s been over two weeks since there have been any volcano activity updates on the newspaper website link here. Instead they have a big article about a volcano […]
It’s the day after the County Council meeting, and I’m sitting here in my yurt in the jungle of South Puna listening to John Lennon on the stereo as I write this. All these years after his death he still shines on as he said we all would. Just imagine if we really had a […]