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I have found that I, and I feel most people knew more about God when we were 5 years old, than we do now after years of false indoctrination. It seems really crazy, but when I need to know what is really the truth, I go inside myself back to that 5 year old child, and ask him what is really true, and he tells me because he hasn’t yet been fed all of the dogma that the churches have been feeding us for the last two thousand years. I’m not saying that everything the world’s religions teach is unfounded and untrue, they do teach a lot of valid truth, but a lot of times it gets twisted and shaped to fit a particular dogma or need and a lot of times the powers in control are serving their own egos rather than the needs of their constituents.

In Luke 5, we are told the story of some fishermen who had worked hard all night exhaustively but caught nothing in their nets. They had started washing their nets and then Jesus asked to sit in the boat of one of fishermen (Simon). Jesus then went on to teach the crowd from this boat.

All this man wants to say to these religious leaders interrogating him, is that I don’t know what you want to call him, or what label he should have, but this I do know, once I was blind but now I see. Something has happened to me. I have had an experience, and it is real.

In verse 3 of the Book of Romans, Paul refers to Jesus and then goes on to define Jesus’ physical genealogy. “(Jesus) was descended from David according to the flesh…” There are two key points to note here, first that Paul believed Jesus was flesh, not some airborne spirit, and secondly that he was able to trace his birthright back to David, and consequently from there back to Abraham.

We are all sinners in one form or another as none of us is perfect. However for Christians there are those sins we commit that we have no knowledge of because they are taken for granted as being part of who we are.

Gratitude is a prayer. Imprisoned in North Korea, Lu Linn practiced gratitude. Imprisoned in a Nazi death camp, a child noticed a flower blooming and was thankful. Smiling is also an expression of gratitude.

This is a most amazing incident with astounding consequences. We hear the disciples of Jesus asking questions and almost being satisfied with debate and discussion. Debate and discussion was never enough for Jesus Christ. Jesus acted. Many prefer to keep their religion intellectual and academic and theological or philosophical, but not so Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The 10 precepts of Mahayana Buddhism comprise one of the three legs on which Buddhist teaching and practice stand. The other two are zazen and enlightenment-wisdom. These three are intimately related.

I suppose that it was the Sermon on the Mount that stirred me to think about blessing. I was inspired to wonder about blessing and to experiment.

Many Protestants are locked into disagreement about Calvinism and other theological controversies. Such disagreements have affected my life and that of my family. Here are some observations based on my experiences with this.

The sixth patriarch is one of the most distinguished masters in the history of Zen. Almost single-handedly he stripped from Buddhism its Indian cloak of otherworldliness and emphasis on sutra reading and doctrinal study that had previously characterised it in China. In doing this, he laid the foundations for what we now know as Zen Buddhism.

No element of the Zen devotions occupies a more central role than chanting. There is hardly a Zen temple or centre were men and women do not assemble in the main hall at least once a day and chant sutras and the words of the masters who have realised the highest truth. Chanting forms the focal ground on which every ritual, ceremony, and right of passage is performed, setting a tone through which participants acquire a heightened awareness of and receptivity to what is being enacted.