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Saturday, February 14th, 2015

这个特别的宗派道教的成立,由王中孚也被各种其他受欢迎的名字,王重阳、 中阳子和汪哲等。在摘要的王发展宗教哲学的涉及他儒家的成长过程以及后来的修行,只有最后受训道教形式的信仰、 仪式,通过一些秘密的口语教学,他理应获得一把神奇的遇到的两个超人称为道教神仙中, 坜泉 / 钟礼泉和吕洞宾 / 吕纯阳然后一年后还接受进一步的书面的指示从这些已成为被称为赣仙源路的神仙之一。
我发现很难相信在这个探视或性质的此类事件的问候是这样的教学内容不是独特的添加或补充已经被发现在他内文化那时和他做的唯一的设置是加入他们一起营造冲撞他在儒家思想中的经验的教义已有既定的知识禅佛教和道教在采取他认为是最好的这三个意识形态和世界观作为形成一种混业的信仰体系。再次是什么本质上是有启发性的有关这个你需要特别的神圣偶遇他的成就一样一直站在其他凡人的肩膀上,基本上他教什么新发展独特的哲学观,但只是连体他被从这些不同的组作为抄袭道家普遍性以及它关于独身的教义与佛教哲学的思想相当坐在调解、 否认日常舒适、 重生和业力,以及借用佛教肖像和体系结构,以时尚,以及制订这个普遍性作为企图引诱别人拥有自己作为追随者的运动。即使在今天你看到它自己独特的表达,吕洞宾描绘道教玉皇大帝和观音作为观世音菩萨慈悲作为发展三个脑袋的上帝这么说代表佛教的菩萨的女性形象。
从哲学的角度来看这个整体的角度来给我的挑战是如果没有这些运动本身是完全启发然后什么放心王他的地位是任何更富有启发性,如添加三个零的总和仍然等于零适用于这个宗教的方程。
无论如何我以前对这些宗教的运动,都在以下帖子中有所体现:
儒家思想
Buddhism
禅宗
道家或道教
这些类型的宗教表现形式也共同和定义各种邪教和宗教尤其是作为不需要验证他们的经历给他们一种无与伦比的宗教权威感,没有提供明显的证据表明,测试可靠性,他们宣称的真理之间。本质上是有一点点的魅力和想象力结合或许是某种形式的精神不稳定的人可以拿出这些各种各样的想法是把它们放在了宗教的聚光灯下,这也难怪照片中有这种宗教思维倾向的人被认为是异常根据心理学的指引。他古怪的行为进一步暗示这一结论为他挖了,住在一个人类的坟墓,已知作为活死人之墓,他睡在这阻碍了他在冰上的故事第一次争取将转换,这引起一些当地的同龄人要质疑他的理智,很多人把他看作疯子。其他人可以轻易地提请引起个人崇拜的定义很多东方宗教园林为龙头,以这些传说和神话环绕这种荣幸和神秘的人,也可能符合这个运动与他们进化的理想化故事传统如守护神吕洞宾被描绘成一位学者用一只苍蝇拂,驱散邪灵作为剑发现流行艺术和戏剧这种引人入胜的故事。这还将包括这些字符作为魁长春连续七年或郝大同花六年在一座小石桥下既不移动也不是说生活在一个洞穴,只吃时提供食物,然后是王翠他晚上在一个山洞里,站在一只脚上,睡不着。这些苦行的故事是被夸大的民俗传说或如果显示这些弟子汪哲可能患同样的宗教错觉作为其开明的领导者。不过我想它呼吁人们质疑这些故事或制造或不稳定的心理结构的这些起源于这项运动的人的终极真理的感觉。
另一种方式,我其启蒙理论是由其原始的做法是使用外部炼金术与摄食的草药和矿物质以后方便真灵化和改造或改为内丹后证明致命杀手,因为也许它甚至负责中毒与它有毒的长生不老药的朱砂、 云母或黄金帝王的一些问题。讽刺的是这种实践承诺诸如长寿和不朽,但只有证明是致命的最后。因此如果外部方法被证明失败然后如何放心的是你的人为干预,制定一种更具适应性的冥想方法这种反动反应是任何比它的前辈更富有启发性吗?
此外这种做法最初吸引蒙古帝王成吉思汗汗/成吉思汗人被吸引到这座喷泉青年在获得永生作为延长寿命的药物中的概念,但反过来只给出了由卫生技术汪哲著名弟子名叫丘处机或作为的作为建立龙门排沿袭/分支与其学校的龙门口道教北京著名白云寺创始人邱长春。邱获特权作为负责宗教事务的可能是最主要的原因,为什么这一运动继续生存到今天的中国。不管怎么说这种关系的最有争议的方面之一是他的协会和联盟这种无情的凶手和暴君和像汗,魁刚也被滥用他的新权力和权威利用税收和劳动豁免为他自己和他的门徒,这也导致许多做作转换以及一轮对抗与佛教徒。此外全真教派会剥夺其他人他们自己独特的形式或作为入侵现有的宗教场所,重新诠释他们的竞争对手的案文,以及占领他们的庙宇,形成其单一的大系统,以便他们宗教的议程将变得更加有力,而不是启蒙恰逢到启示他的方法在不妥协,甚至是暴力令人震惊的人,汪哲实践信仰的表达。
一些其他可疑的做法围绕着占卜通过自动的神秘仪式或精神写在锋利的树枝拴在其中一个框架将移自动马毛覆盖马毛的砂作为一种工具用于吸引人们到超自然的经验,但这种做法并不需要作为任何比使用显灵板更富有启发性的终极真理魔术八个球、 星座、 棕榈油读、 塔罗牌和水晶球,等如只使您容易受到有害的实体作为被征服或被恶魔附身和攻击的邪恶影响制服。
另一件事情是统一的矛盾的关于他们的集团是统一的王的七个最初的信徒在给人的印象当中其创始成员和后继者司建立七个不同的谱系或分支机构的消息。我的问题是如果有任何分歧这些持运动只是一代人退化,形成任何形式的分歧和怎么能一个人如何可以确定他们是跟随启蒙作为代表道教的有效和真实表达的分支机构真正的传承者吗?
无论如何,我觉得这个有智慧的外观,但坚持其苦行或出家的生活方式,在强调纪律与独身作为培养执着的缺乏、 纯净的心灵和通过其实践内丹不朽的誓言社区生活的敬虔伪形式的宗教组织的特征。也许你已经完全实现这些空洞的承诺不会传达的手段获得以其空索赔和从未得到证实为不符合你的生活方式和其他人在您的组织内的承诺完美的谎言,基本上这应导致你来质疑这种运动作为未能重要或完整对启蒙的真实性。在现实生活中这种理想主义的完美是永远不会成为实现其了,这辆车的宗教不能开车送你到你最终的目的地,这似乎只是在地平线上,在现实生活中是遥不可及的地平线上继续移动/班,也许你只保持汽油用完了但无论情况如何,我想鼓励你那启蒙路上通过自我培养模式的遥不可及或救恩可以获得,但不是作为信任在你的工作、 努力和行动,但宁可它可以接受因信仰上帝。这是可能通过东部亚洲宗教的基督教会,已经证明自己作为由它作为显然影响到数百万人的生命,包括我自己在内的影响改变了整个世界,这里是一些他们的证词。
我信耶稣的见证
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所以最后我向你证实这些信徒的故事的宣言是耶稣是真理的完美体现,因为他已获得高级祭司的职任全人类作为唯一的真理和生命存在是中提到由谁我们可以得到永生的礼物的男人之中没有其他名字的救恩。因而它是三个神圣和纯洁的即父亲作为终极生命源发送来表示地球上的人类的耶稣和圣灵来居住或留置作为使他们通过一个新的性质信徒生活道德生活的奇妙美德的人。最后耶稣说,如果我们把我们的生活给他,他会为您提供此精神上的满足。

马太福音:11:28-30
28 凡劳苦担重担的人,可以到我这里来,我就使你们得安息。29 我心里柔和谦卑,你们当负我的轭,学我的样式,这样,你们心里就必得享安息。 30 因为我的轭是容易的,我的担子是轻省的。

 

 

如何与上帝建立关系

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Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.3, pgs.1602-1603, Daniel L. Overmyer & Joseph A. Adler

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.4, pgs.2184-2186, Stephen R. Bokenkamp

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.4, pgs. 2199-2201 , John Lagerwey

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.4, pgs. 2207, Judith Magee Boltz

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.11, pg. 7415, John Lagerwey & Livia Khon

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.14, pg. 9676, Kubo Noritada

Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices/ J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, editors; Todd M. Johnson, World Religious Statistics; Donald Wiebe, Introduction-2nd ed., Copyright 2010 by ABC-CLIO, LLC. Reproduced with permission of ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.

龙门派资源

Saturday, February 14th, 2015

四个属灵定律

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耶稣电影

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新约圣经/圣经

www.biblica.com/en-us/bible/online-bible/cuvs/約-翰-福-音/1/niv/

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有声圣经

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Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

Four Spiritual Laws

 

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New Testament/Bible

 

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Quanzhen School of Daoism

Saturday, August 17th, 2013

 This particular sect of Taoism was founded by Wang Zhongfu who is also known by various other popular names such as Wang Chongyang, Zhongyangzi and Wang Zhe. In summary the development of Wang’s religious philosophy involved his Confucian upbringing as well as later practicing Buddhism only to be finally trained in Daoist forms of belief and ritual through some secret oral teachings as he supposedly obtained from a mystical encounter with two superhuman beings known as the Daoist Immortals, Zhongli Quan/ Zhong Liquan and Lu Dongbin/ Lu Chunyang, and then a year later also receiving further written instructions from one of these Immortals which has become known as the Ganshui Xianyuan Lu.

What I find difficult to believe in regards to this visitation or the nature of such an event is that the content of such teachings are not unique as adding or supplementing to the already established knowledge of teachings that were already found within his cultural setting at that time and the only thing that he did was join them together so as to create a syncretization of his experiences within Confucianism, Ch’an Buddhism and Daoism in taking what he believed to be the best of these three ideologies and worldviews as forming a  conglomerated belief system. Again what is essentially enlightening about this that you need a special divine encounter as much of what he accomplished has been by standing on the shoulders of other mortals as essentially he taught nothing new in developing a unique philosophical view but rather only conjoined his ideas that were taken from these various groups as plagiarizing  Daoistic universalism along with the Buddhist philosophy with its teachings about celibacy, quite sitting in mediation, denying daily comforts, rebirth and karma as well as borrowing the Buddhist iconography and architecture to fashion as well as formulate this universalism as an attempt to allure others to possess his own movement as followers. Even today in Hong Kong you see its own unique expression of this as Lu Dongbin characterizes Taoism along with the Jade Emperor and Guanyin as the female figure of Avalokiteshvara the bodhisattva of compassion representing Buddhism as developing a three-headed god so to speak.

From a philosophical standpoint my challenge to this whole perspective is if none of these movements by themselves are completely enlightening then what reassures Wang that his position is any more enlightening as the sum total of adding three zeroes still equals zero as applied to this religious equation.

Anyway I have previously written some posts on all three of these religious movements at

Confucianism

Buddhism

Chan

Taoism

Also these types of religious expressions are common and defining among various cults and religions especially as not having to authenticate their experiences giving them a sense of unrivaled religious authority without providing the significant evidence to test the reliability to their truth claims.  Essentially anyone who has a little charisma and imagination combined with perhaps some form of mental instability can come up with these sorts of ideas as putting them in the religious spotlight and it’s no wonder that people who have a tendency towards these kinds of religious ideations are considered abnormal under the guidelines of psychology. His eccentric behavior further alludes to this conclusion as he dug and lived in a human grave known as the tomb of the living dead as well as stories of him sleeping on the ice which hindered him at first to gain converts as this caused some of his local contemporaries to question his sanity in that many regarded him as madman. Others can be gullibly drawn to such fascinating stories giving rise to personality cults which defines much of the Eastern religious landscape as leading to these legends and myths that surround such honored and mysterious people which may also coincide with this movement with their evolved hagiographic storytelling traditions such as the patron saint Lu Dongbin who is depicted as a scholar with a fly whisk and a sword that dispels evil spirits as found in popular art and drama. This would also include such characters as Qui Changchun living in a cave for seven years or Hao Datong spending six years under a stone bridge neither moving nor speaking and only eating when offered food and then there is Wang Chui who spent his nights in a cave standing on one foot so as to not fall asleep. These ascetic stories are either exaggerated folklore/legend or if true shows that these disciples of Wang Zhe could be suffering from the same religious delusion as their enlightened leader. Nonetheless I think it calls to question the sense of ultimate truth with either the fabrication of these stories or the unstable psychological makeup of these individuals who originated this movement.

Another way in which I question its enlightenment theory is by its original practice to use external alchemy with the ingestion of herbs and minerals which was later conveniently spiritualized and altered or changed to internal alchemy after proving fatal as perhaps it was even responsible for poisoning some of the emperors with its toxic elixirs of cinnabar, mica or gold. Ironically this sort of practice promised such things as longevity and immortality but only demonstrated  to be deadly in the end. Thus if external methods were proven to fail then how reassured are you that this reactionary response of human intervention to develop a more adaptive approach of meditation is any more enlightening than its predecessor?

Furthermore this practice initially attracted the Mongol monarch Genghis Khan/Chinggis Khan who was drawn to the notion of this fountain of youth in obtaining a drug for immortality as prolonging life but in turn was only given hygienic techniques by a notable disciple of Wang Zhe named Qiu Chuji or Qiu Changchun as the founder of the famous White Cloud Monastery of Beijing as establishing the longmen pai lineage/branch with its school of Dragon Gate Taoism. Qiu was given special privileges as  being in charge over the religious affairs in China which is probably the main reason why this movement continues to survive to this day. Anyway one of the most controversial aspects of this relationship is his association and alliance with this ruthless murderer and tyrant and like Khan, Qui also abused his new power and authority by using tax and labor exemption for himself and his disciples which also lead to many contrived conversions as well as a round of confrontations with the Buddhists. Moreover the Quanzhen sect would deprive others of their own unique form or expression of faith as invading existing religious establishments in reinterpreting the texts of their rivals as well as occupying their temples to form their single great system so that their religious agenda would become more empowering rather than enlightening which coincides which Wang Zhe practice of shocking people into enlightenment in which his methods were uncompromising and even violent.

Some of the other questionable practices revolve around the occultist ritual of divining through automatic or spirit writing in which a sharp stick fastened to a frame would move automatically over a planchette of sand which is used as a tool to attract people to a paranormal experience yet this practice does not necessitate ultimate truth as being any more enlightening than using a Ouija board, magic eight ball, horoscopes, palm readings, tarot cards and crystal balls, etc. as this only makes you vulnerable to the harmful entities as being subjugated or subdued by the evil influence of demonic possession and attack.

Another thing which is contradictory about their group is their message of unity in that  Wang’s seven original disciples established seven different lineages or branches in giving the impression of division amongst its founding members and successors. My question is if there were any differences within these lineage holders how can a movement in just one generation degenerate to form any kind of disagreement and how can a person ascertain that they are following the true branch of enlightenment as representing the valid and authentic expression of Daoism?

Anyway I find the features of this religious organization as having an outward appearance of wisdom but upholding to a pseudo form of godliness with its ascetic or monastic lifestyle in emphasizing a communal life of discipline with its vows of celibacy as to cultivate a lack of attachment, purity of mind and immortality through its practice of internal alchemy. Perhaps you have come to the complete realization that these hollow promises do not convey the means to obtain “all truth” with its empty claims and falsehoods in promising perfection which has never been substantiated as being inconsistent with your lifestyle and that of others within your organization and essentially this should cause you to question the authenticity of such a movement as failing to be vital or complete towards enlightenment. In reality this idealism of perfection is unattainable through the mode of self-cultivation as it can never become realized in that this vehicle of religion is not equipped to drive you to your final destination which appears to be just over the horizon which in reality is unreachable as the horizon continues to move/shift and perhaps you just keep running out of gas along the way but whatever the case I would like to encourage you that enlightenment or salvation can be obtained but not as trusting in your works, efforts and actions but rather it can received by having faith in God. This is possible through the Eastern Asiatic religion of Christianity that has proved itself as changing the entire world by its influence as manifestly affecting millions of lives including my own and here are some of their testimonies.

My testimony with Jesus

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So in closing my declaration to you as confirmed by the stories of these believers is that Jesus is the perfect embodiment of truth as He has obtained a superior priesthood over all humanity as being the only way, truth and life as there is salvation in no other name mentioned among men by whom we can receive the gift of eternal life. Thus it is the three holy and pure ones namely the Father who sent Jesus to represent mankind on earth and the Holy Spirit as the ultimate life source who comes to inhabit or indwell the believer as enabling them through a new nature to live according to the wondrous virtue of a moral life. Finally Jesus said that if we give our lives to Him that He will provide you with this spiritual fulfillment.

 

Mt:11:28-30 

28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

 

 

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Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.3, pgs.1602-1603, Daniel L. Overmyer & Joseph A. Adler

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.4, pgs.2184-2186, Stephen R. Bokenkamp

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.4, pgs. 2199-2201 , John Lagerwey

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.4, pgs. 2207, Judith Magee Boltz

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.11, pg. 7415, John Lagerwey & Livia Khon

Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.14, pg. 9676, Kubo Noritada

Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices/ J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, editors; Todd M. Johnson, World Religious Statistics; Donald Wiebe, Introduction-2nd ed., Copyright 2010 by ABC-CLIO, LLC. Reproduced with permission of ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) Copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2007