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@lizzie doesnt christianity have a concept similar to buddha-nature. is it the logos?

@georgia yeah buddha-nature lands pretty close to a lot of christian conceptions of the logos. its often not emphasized (especially in the west) 🥀

@lizzie @georgia god i love syncretism so much

@ikeWren @lizzie I wish there were a proper hindu sect that saw jesus as a descent of the Supreme Lord. usually syncretists just consider him a perfected/accomplished/enlightened being. new agers call him an "ascended master". but my personal experience of God is that jesus and krishna are both full avataras. I see the bhagavad gita in the mahabharata with an equal eye to the sermon on the mount in the gospels.

@georgia @ikeWren i should read the bhagavad gita..

@lizzie @ikeWren here are the hits

@lizzie @ikeWren I'd call these teachings of highest dharma the heart of the BG. it has other great teachings too of course.

@lizzie @ikeWren @unmind

@demha @lizzie @ikeWren what are you trying to convey sorry I'm kind of clueless. you dont like syncretism? even if its motivated by personal experience I consider divine in nature?

@georgia @lizzie @ikeWren i dont know you at all so i dont know youre exact life story but it feels like youre windowshopping religion.

im not saying religions need to be dogmatically followed but like this feels way to handwavey and "liberal" so to speak i dont know the right word for it.

again like i dont know why i sent that, unnecessarily assholeish for somebody i barely know. sorry im gonna delete it.

@demha @lizzie @ikeWren I dont see what's wrong in revering multiple scriptures and multiple incarnations of God. hinduism itself is highly conducive to syncretism, it itself is syncretic and diverse if you knew its history. theres room for me in it.

@demha @lizzie @georgia i wouldn't say she's windowshopping religion really at all. she's more well read on scripture than many religious people i know and so she's educated enough to syncretize discerningly