tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620325480418166403.post5010480398271626065..comments2023-10-25T01:09:39.928-07:00Comments on Buddhist in the Bible Belt: Talk Thursday: If This Is The Season Of Joy...Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16634046522715920069noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620325480418166403.post-10415656763566519842011-01-17T13:10:11.140-08:002011-01-17T13:10:11.140-08:00Hi Jenn - Just catching up. I love your writing an...Hi Jenn - Just catching up. I love your writing and would like to have tea with you someday. And a Dharma discussion. As a Buddhist formerly in Mormon country, and now in Colorado, I can relate. Between the normal folks and the religious extremes of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado pretty much has it all. I love Christmas and put up a tree this year for he first time in about 10 years. I cried when I took it down. It's so pagan and colorful and lovely. We should keep them up all year.<br /><br />Lynn (Progressive Grandma Lynn)LynnBlossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17588460783619499680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620325480418166403.post-4903716808054123512010-12-25T12:02:38.649-08:002010-12-25T12:02:38.649-08:00Ask ten Buddhists if there's a God and you'...Ask ten Buddhists if there's a God and you'll get twenty different answers and forty deep discussions. I'll get into that in a post someday, but for now let's just say, if there is a God, He needs to be enlightened. If He is enlightened already, then we don't need to worry about Him, and can focus on every other being that still needs to be enlightened. And if there is a holiday, it needs to be celebrated. Yep, even Johnny Appleseed Day (March 11).Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634046522715920069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620325480418166403.post-49209331686506793112010-12-23T19:46:45.379-08:002010-12-23T19:46:45.379-08:00Compelling post and considerations hidden within. ...Compelling post and considerations hidden within. As a believer in God (and not really the Bible as a divinely inspired guide) I'm always interested in seeing how others view life, religion (sucks big green eggs), and dealing with the holidays. I embrace the joy of the holidays, but the older I get they wear me out. I also like to remember the connections between today's holidays, the origins of beliefs and practices and how religion as corrupted all.Celehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471318342104018488noreply@blogger.com