Not exact matches
The Hindus had a rich heritage of the 4 Vedas — the
oldest of the
sacred texts.
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.
Hinduism is perhaps the
oldest continuing religion in the world, with
sacred texts estimated to date back to 3000 B.C..
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...
A mandatory
sacred text for any
Old Ones devotee.