Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 6

An important question which always pops up when talking about virtues is the question of their source. Do they have a reliable source and are they trustworthy? When we want to talk of the Laws of Judaism or the Ten Commandments in a Christian perspective, then it is not enough to say that they were

The cloud as symbol of God’s presence in the Torah

“Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt where they were enslaved.  In preparation to enter the land promised by God, the Israelites remained in the wilderness for forty years, and ‘God guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night’ (Psalms 78:14). The Bible often uses a cloud as

Jesus as interpreter of the Law

The subject of Christ’s teaching was the word of God. He met questioners with a plain, “It is written,” “What saith the Scripture?” “How readest thou?” At every opportunity when an interest was awakened by either friend or foe, He presented the word. With clearness and power He proclaimed the gospel message. His words shed

Psalm 1:1-2 – Meditating on God’s Law

[Based on my previous article: Nature and Dogma – The Objective Good and its limited subjective perception (2020)] We are warned of the trouble of dogma from ancient times on. Buddhism warned of it and focused on meditational practice instead of dogmatic preaching, and Judaism did so as well. One can find it quite clearly

Connecting for unity: How two incomplete bodies make a complete one

[Based on my previous article: Nature and Dogma – The Objective Good and its limited subjective perception (2020)] We cannot get constantly selfless, since one is still caught in the body (so we are remembered that we ‘are’ as the soul cannot leave the body to give up its ego and fully unite with the

Being selfless though we have an expression of the “I”?

[Based on my previous article: Nature and Dogma – The Objective Good and its limited subjective perception (2020)] As pointed out before, evil means that the Good is lacking and the important question is of course, how is it possible that the Good is lacking at any spot, even the smallest, as the Good engarns

Mercy: the basis for forgiveness

[Based on my previous article: Nature and Dogma – The Objective Good and its limited subjective perception (2020)] “The remedy for advice is through the crying out of the heart, in that it’s necessary to cry out to HaShem from the depth of the heart; and through this, deep counsel breaks through and is revealed.”

Blessed are the pure hearts: Overcoming frontiers without rejecting God

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all

[En djudeo-espanyol] Emuna, lo ke es realmente emportante!

Por Timo Schmitz Para ser feliches, no devemos enkitarse a los ekstremos, al kontraryo devemos bivir en la balans. Byen ke tenemos muestros los altos i bashos, mijor podemos tener entisyon elijir el kamino intermedyo. A akuroto mos demandarmos porke me pasa esto a mi. David Kraus espesfika ke esta persepsyon es inkorekta. Algo no

[Book/ 책]Timo Schmitz: “나의 유대불교철학 (My Judeo-Buddhist Philosophy in Korean)” (ISBN: 9783986472757)

티모 스미즈의 철학이 조선말로 된 책은 처음이다. 그는 새로운 구성주의 공산주의와 유대불교를 소개한다. 최근 조선반도의 력사를 념두에 두고 그는 민주적이고 종교적인 로동자를 위한 공산주의가 존재하는지 자문한다. 그러나 사실, 그것은 정치철학에 관한 것이 아닙니다: 스미즈는 우리에게 내면의 평화를 찾는 열쇠를 주기를 원합니다. 이것은 우리를 그의 유대불교로 이끕니다. 그는 신에게 더 가까이 가기위해 정화를 제안합니다. 발행일: 2021년