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| Posted By: |
Sesha |
| Date: |
18-Jul-2000 |
| Subject: |
Worship |
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When Buddhists bow down and make offerings of flowers, candles and incense to the image of the Buddha; they are not worshipping as one would petition a divine creator or doxologizing an universal order. It is an expression of gratitude, rejoicing and respect. These days every one demands respect, we demand equality; but the notion that respect benefits the person it is offered too rather than the one offering it, is foriegn to Buddhism. The Buddha was not an Avatar he was a human, somehow we tend to think genius as a different species but in fact the difference is one of degree. It is through what is undeveloped or hardly developed in ourselves that is highly or fully developed in someone we call a genius. We can appreciate music, art, literature, poetry, philosophy, science and so on because there is an affinity, there is a poet, a musician, a Buddha in all of us. So when we pay our respects to the Enlightened we are connecting with that which is within us. |
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