Loving God More Than Your Family & Spouse
November 14, 2015 at 2:07 am
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2015 at 2:28 am by miaharun.)
(November 13, 2015 at 11:48 am)orangebox21 Wrote:(November 13, 2015 at 7:01 am)miaharun Wrote: Hi All, I just want to know how one can love something intangible more than someone you can intellectually discern. How is it possible?People do this all the time in other contexts. Some people love the "sense of reward" [an intangible entity] of their job more than their families.
(November 13, 2015 at 7:01 am)miaharun Wrote: How can you get married knowing you love a imaginary friend more?
You've now equivocated, defining 'imaginary' the same as 'intangible.'
(November 13, 2015 at 7:01 am)miaharun Wrote: How can a relationship with this friend (again intangible) can impact ones life more than what a real person can offer you?Again you've equivocated, defining something that is 'intangible' as 'imaginary'.
(November 13, 2015 at 7:01 am)miaharun Wrote: Like love and intimacy . I just fail to see why the vast majority of people on this planet continue to do this.If you are defining God as imaginary (God is intangible and intangible entities are imaginary) then it is understandable why you can't understand why a person would choose to love God more than a spouse. By your own standard you would also then have to ask the question: how can a person love in the first place, how is that possible? After all love is an intangible entity and therefore imaginary.
When one loves someone , it can be felt with your sensors right ? Vision , hearing , touch etc.
When you love God , or if God loves you back, with what can you feel ?
(November 13, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It's about as ridiculous as freeing oneself of attachments in order to achieve nirvana. Same end, same tools...in this case.
You understand christians better than you think you do......
Sir, the ultimate goal of a believer of God is to find eternal paradise after death. Achieving nirvana means one seizes to exist. They are two very different goals.
To me, I feel I am attached to things and when I don't have them I suffer. No matter how successful one is, when we die we don't take anything with us. How much we earn, houses, cars , fame, success , all of that is temporary. In the end it's about how good one lived their life.
(November 13, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Which has very little to do with either loving god or achieving nirvana. To a christian -or- buddhist, the kingdom is not of this world, and the way to the kingdom is to stop clinging to this world. They are both told to do the -same- thing in order to reach the same place.
It's just a common religious theme, as common as the religious not realizing how common their religious themes are.
There is no "Kingdom" for a Buddhist
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path" - Gautama Buddha
