what about all those gods? I mean how can you 'worship' all those gods and still be Buddhist is another question I get..."doesn't it conflict?" or "how does that work?" Since this comes up regularly I figured I will address this here, instead of in my blog. First we will cover Symbolism and I will define Ntr ... wich is usually and most expediently translated to mean "God"
(this is coming from a book called The Temple In Man by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz)
The kmt (ancient egyptian) term for symbol is Medu Neter/Metu Neter...Mdu Ntr....which is translated as hieroglyphs. "Principles Conveyed by sign" (or signs that bear Ntr)
"wisdom can not vary if it is real."
(so here we see that ... even if the symbols /words we use differ... the 'concept' is the same...
Ntr (neter / nedjer/ netjer) Is a divine/cosmic or natural principle ( or force)/ spirit. It is like an entire teaching rolled into one symbol....
(for those of you to whom this is not an obvious conclusion...Im considering koans again)
"the pharaonic mentality is typically indirect. A defined form is used to evoke an idea of this form -that is to say, the abstract complex that presides over this defined form."
and one more tidbit I found connected with buddhism in general
" We become aware -that is to say, we can qualify a thing or an idea - only by means of comparison. The extreme comparison for Being would be Non Being . For us a thing exists only because it can, the final analysis, not be. Now, presence is susceptible to changes; but absence -nonbeing --is immutable.
the reasoning of absurdity however, underlies any philosophy of Unity -- that is to say "god'. With in Non-Being of Nature, which comprises all 'things' is summarized like a seed.... everything that can be.
Nothing is everything
and what we perceive is our own illusion as physically manifest (via our perception)
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