A few things I like about Zen and Buddhism
- Simplicity.
- The importance of sitting in silence. I want to get into the wilderness away from everything. We need to listen to our hearts and to what God is trying to say to us, or we will die.
- The importance of not speaking too much. In the West, we really like the sound of our own voices.
- The importance of knowing yourself. In Zen, the most important thing a man can do in life, is to know himself. I believe that knowing yourself is ultimately achieved through really knowing God through Jesus.
- The idea that not everything can be confined to something of our own making. There is no Zen creed or prayer. "If you think you know, you really don't know anything". We always seem to think we can make God do whatever we please. We try to control God and use Him for our ideas, our politics and everything else. We try to use God to get what we want, then we get angry at Him when He does things His way instead of ours. God is a wild God.
I could never follow anyone but Jesus. He is the best explanation for this world, for myself, and for why things are the way they are. He is the only one who could do what needed to be done to bring us back to God and to true life by dying for us. These are, though, a few things I admire from other people that are a good reminder to me.
- The importance of sitting in silence. I want to get into the wilderness away from everything. We need to listen to our hearts and to what God is trying to say to us, or we will die.
- The importance of not speaking too much. In the West, we really like the sound of our own voices.
- The importance of knowing yourself. In Zen, the most important thing a man can do in life, is to know himself. I believe that knowing yourself is ultimately achieved through really knowing God through Jesus.
- The idea that not everything can be confined to something of our own making. There is no Zen creed or prayer. "If you think you know, you really don't know anything". We always seem to think we can make God do whatever we please. We try to control God and use Him for our ideas, our politics and everything else. We try to use God to get what we want, then we get angry at Him when He does things His way instead of ours. God is a wild God.
I could never follow anyone but Jesus. He is the best explanation for this world, for myself, and for why things are the way they are. He is the only one who could do what needed to be done to bring us back to God and to true life by dying for us. These are, though, a few things I admire from other people that are a good reminder to me.