In Search of God!
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This is interesting. Through serendipity I recently experienced a live performance. It was wonderful!
I totally agree - religion and trading has a "lot in common". first and most it is a practice of self-awareness. Thank you for the timeline link. And here is something I found interesting about religion:There is absolutely no problem in any person believing what ever they want to believe in.
The problem arises when the FEW try to impose their way of thinking on the MANY.
For centuries, mainly due to the lack of "information", or to be more specific, the lack of "communication", the MANY were blind, aka "ignorant" to what was going on in the world as a whole.
This led to a way of thinking that gave the FEW power and authority.
Since the late 1800's and early 1900's, with the arrival of "means of communication", the MANY slowly started to gain access to "information".
We have just started, and it has taken just over 100 years to wipe out most of the brainwashing that was carried out for many thousands of years.
Some say that in another 50 years things will have changed dramatically from the way they are now, as the last of the "ignorant" era passes away.
Trading has a lot in common with religion
For those interested in learning about the timeline...a starting point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communication#/media/File:Sumerian_26th_c_Adab.jpg
"RELIGION is a very complex phenomenon. Its complexity has to be understood.
There are seven types of religions in the world. The first type is ignorance-oriented." /Osho/ - http://www.friakademi.se/downloads/OSHO-7Types.html
“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
-RUMI
-RUMI
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them:
“There is an elephant in the village today.”
They had no idea what an elephant looked like, so they decided to go and feel it, even though they were not able to see it. They all went to the elephant and started touching it, hoping they would perceive something more about this legendary creature.
“Hey, the elephant is a pillar!” said the first man who touched his leg.
“Oh, no! It is like a rope!” said the second man who touched the tail.
“No, no! it is like a thick branch of a tree!” said the third man who touched the trunkof the elephant.
“It is like a big hand fan!” said the fourth man who touched the ear of the elephant.
“It is like a huge wall!” said the fifth man who touched the belly of the elephant.
“It is like a solid pipe,” Said the sixth man who touched the tusk of the elephant.
They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them:
“What’s happening here?”
“We cannot agree to what the elephant is like,” they said.
Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The wise man calmly explained to them:
“All of you are right. The reason everyone of you is telling it differently is that each one of you touched a different part of the elephant.”
“Oh!” everyone said.
There was no more fight, now that everyone understood it was just a matter of perception.
Author Unkown, told by Osho many times
And we have seen that during the years of red terror and Stalin's purges (1917-1953)- 85 mln death. The interesting fact is that when Stalin was almost sure to lose the war he addressed citizens Brothers and Sisters and not more tovarish and allowed the fly around the Moscow with Madonna of Kazan, the magic protector Russiasia.
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