Sky Dancer
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Exactly. I'd get overwhelmed by the big picture, and walk away.
It's funny though, how once you make a committment to one path, you hear the truth in others.
I can hear a Christian teaching and it will sound like Buddhism to me.
What I think is senseless is only hearing the one. The wise are found everywhere, in all walks of life. Why shut out their voices for being on a different path?
The wise would be careful not to mix it up either. In other words, don't take one from column A and one from column B.
Lineage is very important in Buddhism. I have studied a number of Buddhist teachings from different schools and we are very careful to not mix them up.
For example, I find the Beatitudes AKA Sermon on the Mount to be a beautful teaching. I hear truth when I recite it or study it. But I wouldn't mix it up with the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life either, even though I hear truth in both.
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