什么才是最好的宗教

PTL

今天有位师姐发给我一个SLIDE，我觉得真的要和大家SHARE一下。http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFAoo9OKEXk

PTL

YOUR RELIGION IS NOT IMPORTANT (ZT)
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A brief dialogue between a Brazilian theologist
Leonardo Boff
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$ C7 E3 z' i/ U) y/ E7 }/ l! \! ?In a round table discussion about religion and freedom in which Dalai Lama
3 h3 ~  N4 D* ?and myself were participating at recess I maliciously,  and also with interest,
asked him: “Your holiness, what is the best religion?”
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I thought he would say:
“The Tibetan Buddhism” or “The oriental religions, much older than Chritianity”
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& D* c/ M7 T+ y: L% e Dalai Lama paused, smiled and looked me in the eyes ….
- N) B6 K9 c& S& ~& L# N- B  Dwhich surprised me because I knew of the malice contained in my question.
4 V2 Y3 w# t& f& }2 E/ q7 V, lHe answered:
          “The best religion is the one that gets you closest to God.
: b% n- p1 E5 u             It is the one that makes you a better person.”
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To get out of my embarassment with such a wise answer, I asked:
“What is it that makes me better?”

  p+ V1 i7 _! D! ?" o! M* LHe responded:
“Whatever makes you
8 U; D2 j7 W8 S5 C) I9 f/ j/ I) L     more compassionate,
     more sensible,
     more detached,
     more loving,
2 T4 }5 ~  x" i- R- Z( i     more humanitarian,
     more responsible,
     more ethical.”       
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“The religion that will do that for you is the best religion”

I was silent for a moment, marvelling and even today thinking of his wise and irrefutable response:

& F9 e' {+ D3 h" E, L" x! E"I am not interested, my friend, about your religión or if you are religious or not.
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  X6 X2 K1 g& C1 a4 }$ G“What really is important to me is your behaviour in front of your peers, family, work,    community, and in front of the world.”

“Remember, the universe is the echo of our actions and our  thoughts.”
“The law of action and reaction is not exclusively for physics.  It is also of human relations.
7 g5 |! r( u/ E( q, jIf I act with goodness, I will receive goodness.
. O8 M) S; b9 ^5 v0 \6 gIf I act with eviI, I will get evil.”
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“What our grandparents told us is the pure truth.
You will always have what you desire for others.
Being happy is not a matter of destiny.
It is a matter of options.”
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: D' \6 R* z6 ]$ H7 U" F; qFinally he said:
“Take care of your Thoughts because they become Words.
Take care of your Words because they will become Actions.
Take care of your Actions because they will become Habits.
% M0 @0 A1 A( ?9 QTake care of your Habits because they will form your Character.
Take care of your Character because it will form your Destiny,
4 M$ q) R. V9 Y6 o3 gand your Destiny will be your Life
… and …
“There is no religion higher than the Truth.”

木石

“The best religion is the one that gets you closest to God.
             It is the one that makes you a better person.”
7 I. S. O: a$ D1 l! R& n3 H  D% c  Whatever makes you   
     more compassionate,
     more sensible,  
1 U: H( m3 x+ A% Y. r1 S8 ]     more detached,  
     more loving,  
' X; K* F2 g6 c5 J     more humanitarian,
     more responsible,
5 M$ M. w  {" O" _2 n5 i  |* D; a     more ethical.”

白莲花

嗯，8错，没看懂！

pingyet

巧舌如簧而已， 他敢跟西藏那些被愚之民说这番话吗？