The Hindus had a rich heritage of the 4 Vedas —
the oldest of the sacred texts.
Not exact matches
What was new to me — listening with the ear
of the heart (as St. Benedict puts it) to
sacred texts until they lead the listener to prayer — was actually very
old.
Progressive religious folks
of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the
old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our
sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings
of justice.
We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways
of understanding divinity and
sacred text, especially when the
old ways
of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings
of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.
From Bethany: As a Christian who sees the
Old and New Testaments as
sacred texts and the history
of my faith, I feel a connection with those
of the Jewish faith, as though we are part
of the same family.
Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric
texts: the
sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts
of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest
texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even
older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions
of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions
of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land
of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.
Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric
texts: the
sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts
of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest
texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even
older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions
of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions
of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung a...