Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi
We write beautiful maxims; but are we well imbued with them, and are we putting them into practice? Epictetus
One Little Angel is proud to present
God Love All Beings Quotes from the World Religion
A Proper Understanding of Religion
It is essential to have proper understanding of what religion is all about. The Chinese word for religion is 宗教 (Zong-jiao). The character 宗 (Zong) means ‘main,’ ‘important,’ or ‘noble and esteemed.’ The character 教 (Jiao) means ‘education,’ ‘teachings,’ or ‘actions that serve to moralise, civilise or enlighten humanity.’ Put together, 宗教 (Zong-jiao) means ‘the main education,’ ‘the important teachings,’ and ‘the noble, esteemed actions that moralise, civilise, or enlighten people.’ Observing closely every major religion’s sacred scriptures and history of education, we can see that the principal contents of religious teachings can be classified into four categories: morality, ethics, causality and sacred wisdom.
This commentary on God Loves All Beings - Quotes from the World Religion by Master Chin Kung was produced between 2018 and 2019 and recorded at the UNESCO. Although intended for a Buddhist audience, the commentary is remarkably open-minded regarding the teachings of all religions and as such deserves to be read by everyone, believers and non-believers alike.
- Conference 1: Introduction of the association at UNESCO and its role; - Conferences 2 to 4: Introduction of the conference series God loves all beings. - Lectures 5 to 8: commentary on Bahá'í texts. - Lectures 9 to 23: commentary on Buddhist texts.
Vidéos:
Inter-Faiths Dialogue
Quotes of the Day
Martin Buber
Question: We are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves. How can I do this if my neighbor has wronged me? Answer: You must understand these words rightly. Love your neighbor as something which you yourself are. For all souls are one. Each is a spark from the original soul, and this soul is inherent in all souls, just as your soul is inherent in all the members of your body. It may come to pass that your hand will make a mistake and strike you. But would you then take a stick and chastise your hand because it lacked understanding, and so increase your pain? It is the same if your neighbor, who is of one soul with you, wrongs you because of his lack of understanding. If you punish him, you only hurt yourself. Question: But if I see a man who is wicked before God, how can I love him? Answer: Don't you know that the primordial soul came out of the essence of God, and that every human soul is a part of God? And will you have no mercy on man, when you see that one of his holy sparks has been lost in a maze and is almost stifled?
One Little Angel is proud to present Scriptures 360 by
Religious cohesion, bringing religion back to education and mutual learning amongst religious groups can foster social harmony and promote world peace. Venerable Master Chin Kung encouraged practitioners of different faiths to select 360 passages of the most essential teachings in their respective sacred texts, and compiled them into Scriptures 360, for the convenience of the general public.
This set of books is compiled by: - Members of the Toowoomba Interfaith Working Group (Queensland, Australia), - Syed Hassan Al-Atas (Imam and Head of Ba alwie Mosque Singapore), - Reverend Master Lee Zhiwang (President of Taoist Mission Singapore), - Mr K. Rajamanikam (Singapore)
Bahai
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Jainism
Judaism
Sikhism
Taoism
Zoroastrianism
Biography of the Day
Al-Junayd
Imam Junayd al-Baghdadi (d. 910) was born in Nihawand in Persia, but his family settled in Baghdad where he studied Islamic Law according to the school of Imam Shafi'i, and eventually became a chief judge in Baghdad. In Sufi discipline, he was the close follower of his uncle, Shaykh as-Sari as-Saqti. Although he was the spiritual master of Mansur al-Hallaj, he was obliged, in his capacity as chief judge of Baghdad, to sign the warrant authorizing the execution of al-Hallaj. On it he wrote: 'Under Islamic Law, he is guilty. According to the Inner Reality, God knows.'
