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Non-Christians are banned

Just finished reciting surah 51

Put this achievement in the NSA server thanks

BASED JESUS

Nagarjuna

hwud

Paramartha stavah

1. Lord! Since you are non-originated, residing in no place, transcending any worldly similes, indescribable through the path of words, how can I praise you?

2. Although you cannot be praised thus, yet I with great devotion shall praise you in behavioral pattern concerning ultimate truth.

3. Since you have the nature of non-originated, for you there is no-origin, no coming, no going,(In other words you have no coming and going in this samsara.) obeisance to you who unborn nature!

4. You are neither existent nor non-existent, neither eternal nor non-eternal, neither permanent nor impermanent. Obeisance to you who are beyond any dualism!

5. No color is found in you, neither green nor red nor scarlet, neither yellow nor black nor white. Obeisance to you who have the nature of colorlessness!

6. You are neither big, nor small, neither long nor spherical. You have reached the stage of immesuarability. Obeisance to you who has the nature of immesuarability.

7. You are neither far away nor near, neither in space nor on the earth, neither in Samsara nor in Nirvana. Obeisance to you who resides nowhere!

8. You do not stay on any dharma but are gone into the stage of Dharmadhatu. You have reached the stage of supreme deepness. Obeisance to you who are the nature of unfathomableness!

9. Thus praised let you be praised, or is He praised? When all dharmas are without essence, who is praised or by whom can He be praised?

10. Who can praise you are devoid origination and decay and for you who there is neither end nor middle, neither perception nor perceived?

11. Thus praising the Sugat who is neither gone nor come and is devoid of any going, through the merits thus acquired may this world practice the path of Sugata!

the monk who wrote this the St. Peter of Mahayana Buddhism

he's the ultimate authority

Nagarjuna

Why is he the ultimate authority?

Because he developed the school which became the bedrock of Mahayana Buddhism called Madhyamaka and it's been seen as the most accurate interpretation of the Buddha for 2000 years

The Buddha didn't talk about God cuz... what is there to talk about

You're a pleb go try to be a good person instead of asking advanced theological questions which will just confuse you

also he incarnated in India where retards thought slaughtering lambs in front of an altar absolved them of sins

also very similar to Christ's relation to the Jews

I always call the HIndus as the Jews and Buddha like Christ

he was a reformer

who operated in his environment

in Mahayana we view Buddha like you view Christ

in Theravada they say ahh Buddha was jus some dude

We view him as a manifestation of God basically

the sticking point might be that we have a slightly different interpretation of the absolute reality

If Buddha did not talk about God, from where does this monk draw his conclusions?

And if this monk is not God, how can he be an ultimate authority?

He draws his conclusions from the Sophia

I mentioned the Prajnaparmita Sutra

it basically says look all this philosophical tripe about emptiness

don't get it twisted

it's not about nihilism

it's so you can open yourself to receive the Holy Spirit

Sophia means divine wisdom in Greek, by the way

I know very well who Sophia is she's my main meditational deity

I have her beautiful Thangka on my wall and in my altar

Greek goddess of cleverness and philosophy

In Biblical terminology, "Divine Wisdom"

she's the Shakti

The emanation of the Word which alights the tongues of Saints and gives them wisdom from God

Who wrote the Sophia?

?

you said the sophia

In the Bible the term Sophia is equated with "Wisdom" in a certain sense

I can get the quotes

I know

but you said "the"

which seems to imply a text

The first bible was in Greek

they use the term Sophia interchangabley with the Holy Spirit

Original Word Word Origin
sofia from (4680)
Transliterated Word TDNT Entry
Sophia 7:465,1056
Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech
sof-ee'-ah Noun Feminine
Definition
wisdom, broad and full of intelligence; used of the knowledge of very diverse matters
the wisdom which belongs to men
spec. the varied knowledge of things human and divine, acquired by acuteness and experience, and summed up in maxims and proverbs
the science and learning
the act of interpreting dreams and always giving the sagest advice
the intelligence evinced in discovering the meaning of some mysterious number or vision
skill in the management of affairs
devout and proper prudence in intercourse with men not disciples of Christ, skill and discretion in imparting Christian truth
the knowledge and practice of the requisites for godly and upright living
supreme intelligence, such as belongs to God
to Christ
the wisdom of God as evinced in forming and executing counsels in the formation and government of the world and the scriptures

call it the holy spirit call it whatever lol

she's my main meditation deity

here's how we depict her

I see it like the Word is masculine

The Word exists in and of itself

When the Word reaches out and wants to use its energy to set the tongue of a saint alight ... that is the Sophia

the energy of the Truth

>the first Bible was in Greek

this is not true unless you consider the Septuagint to be a Bible

whatever the main bible used sophia interchangabley in the sense that i'm using it

To my mind there was no "Bible" until the Council of Nicaea

>the main Bible

why do you think the main church in constantinople was called the Hagia Sophia

this guy

hwut

it means "holy wisdom"

hold on I'm still reading everything you wrote

alright

The Bible source text is written in a combination of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koiné Greek.

Believe me, I could do a whole spiel just on Bible semantics as regards misinterpretations due to translation.

The Bible officially came into existence as a canon after the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325

I am aware what sophia means in Greek, but unless the instances you're referring to are from Greek source text and not translated from Hebrew or Aramaic, this means little.

i'm not sure what your point is

I was just clearing up a few things since you seem to have some misconceptions.

Not really

You do, though.

But I don't really have a point, I'm mostly here to hear what you have to say.

what time is it where you at will you be up a little while

I might be up for another hour or so

it's 4:00 am here

jesus christ my schizo meth roomate is being insane i'm bout to call 911

why don't you flex on him yourself?

well as a professional flexer I know when someone is being totally fucking erratic and it's better to leave it to PD

it's not good to try to escalate in that situation

and he's impossible to de escalate

fair enough

I have my stun baton right here I could go out there and tell him to shut the fuck up and chill out but that wouldn't really go over wel

I don't know the specifics of your situation but I know that, generally-speaking, people call cops and lawyers far too liberally these days

i'm a security guard i can handle most situations by myself i very very rarely bother PD

but I know when it's time for PD and this is about 80% to the level of calling them

lmfao he would flip out on them and it would be drama

also to think about: if you call the police on your meth-addled roommate, you will now have a meth-addled person who wants to get revenge on you, knows a lot about you, and could potentially have access to where you sleep when the time comes to exact said revenge

yes and I'm an alpha male with a badge and a stun baton and a lock on my door lol

no one is more alpha than someone on meth

they have that crazy meth strength

sigh

so much meth up here in norcal

why do you live in that state?

leave that state

the meth craziness goes hand in hand with the schizo craziness

meh

that state is so bad

I want to be an LEO

rack up some money being a sheriff deputy then i'll go to texas and really flex on criminals

dude who used to do security at the store I work at went from security to LEO in about a year

if you got the heart to stay at a tough post lmao

he was a cashier at the same store before that

same

if you got the heart it just becomes second nature

then the chicago PD came and said they heard he was doing a good job and asked if he wanted to be a cop

wow damn

that's some mad respecc by the PD

i've only been an s/o for half a year

but i'm like lmfao my post is insane

only about a year as security at my store

i've seen everything

i have nothing left to be afraid of

in that time he was stabbed on two separate occasions and had a knee dropped on his neck to where he blacked out

god damn

when I walk up to enforce on someone I always assess whether I need to have my baton ready on zap mode

i walked up on a drug deal last night

lol our guy had handcuffs and that's it

two cars bunch of kids and an older nog who got ditched by the little white kids who got scared when I rolled up on them

i told the black dude aahahha yooo why ur friends being so scary

lol yeah i have cuffs pepper spray and my stun baton flashlight

i've almost been in a few knife vs. baton fights but i'm 6'8" nobody seems to want to fight with me

I love it man being the dude with a badge enforcing law it feels fucking good

you gotta be careful as a cop these days though

it's not like it used to be in most places

bodycams, strict rules, lawsuits, etc.

my grandpa used to be a cop and he was suspended only twice

on one occasion for shooting the door handle off of someone's car when they refused to open it, and on another occasion for eating a man's drivers' license

the drivers' licenses were just paper back then

my only worry is me trying to be a good deputy/cop and being pushed out for not being corrupt

I have met a lot of cops

there are a lot who are just good guys trying to do the right thing

and all the other ones are colossal power tripping god complex honorary boomer assholes

yeah guards have the same problem

i'm very well balanced i would be a good cop

i would wanna be an ice agent

lol ey that's fun too

because fuck illegal spics

same

reason i asked if you were gonna be up is cuz i'm bout to go outside and we could voice chat for a sec about religion but if you gona sleep we could do it later

every time I have occasion to check the ID of someone who can't speak English at my store, or they write a check with the address, or something like that, I remember it, write it down later, and eventually when the list gets long enough I'm gonna send it to ICE

nah I can't VC right now anyway

aite

I do like talking about religion though

well the differences between christianity and MAHAYANA at least are fucking negligible at best

eh

honestly

not even that much difference at all

I view Jesus as Quan Yin

Avalokitesvara

God who manifests forever to save souls

we have some differences but the basic tenants and ideas are more similar than not

Well tomorrow we can go over specific tenets and compare them to each other.

sure

i'm bout to grab my baton and patrol the house

Also for the record sometimes I can come off as dismissive or offended, I'm told.

But really it's almost impossible to offend me.

imma go flex on this faggot

yeah same 10 years of meditation my emotions are controlled

And I don't mean to sound dismissive, I genuinely enjoy discussing religion.

Alright, go flex.

I'm gonna see if I can use the music bot now that I'm security.

Oh also fun fact: at the concil of Nicaea, St. Nicholas (Santa) punched a guy in the face over the question of the Arian heresy.

as a student of mahayana we probly have more in common than you do with the arians

possibly

the arians are memers

also, the music bots in all these servers are retarded

either muted or inaccessible

unfortunate because I enjoy queuing up songs with people

seeing that we see the Buddha the same way you see Christ with very minor differences definitely we have more in common with you than Arians

You have multiple incarnations of Buddha though, no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtn6D_Z_EuM

Epic

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484793716733771807/503664759007084565/FB_IMG_1540152840512.jpg

https://youtu.be/ZLULcU3lwx8

Excuse me what?